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Jason Citron is the cofounder and CEO of online communication software Discord. [1][2]

Early Life[edit]

He previously founded OpenFeint, a social gaming platform for mobile games, and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who had founded Guildwork, another social gaming platform. [3] Citron sold OpenFeint to GREE in 2011 for US$104 million, which he used to found Hammer & Chisel, a game development studio, in 2012. Their first product was Fates Forever, released in 2014, which Citron anticipated to be the first MOBA game on mobile platforms, but it did not become commercially successful.[4]


References[edit]

  1. ^ Discord CEO Jason Citron on AI, Midjourney, 2023-06-22, retrieved 2024-01-31
  2. ^ Mann, Jyoti. "Discord is laying off 170 employees as its CEO says the workforce grew too quickly". Business Insider. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  3. ^ Brown, Abram. "Discord Was Once The Alt-Right's Favorite Chat App. Now It's Gone Mainstream And Scored A New $3.5 Billion Valuation". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  4. ^ Rao, Leena (2011-04-22). "Japanese Company GREE Buys Mobile Social Gaming Platform OpenFeint For $104 Million In Cash". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2024-01-31.