Discord's CEO and Co-Founder Is Stepping Down

Discord CEO and co-founder Jason Citron is stepping down from his leadership role at the company and being replaced by Humam Sakhnini, a former executive from Activision Blizzard. 'Citron will remain on Discord's board of directors, and fellow co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy will continue acting as the company's chief technology officer,' notes Engadget. From the report: There's an important financial context to Citron's move. The New York Times reported in March that Discord was meeting with investors to take the company public. Sakhnini has experience acting as a leader of a public company. He was also the President of King Digital -- the creator of Candy Crush and other popular mobile games -- after the company was acquired by Activision Blizzard. A veteran executive could be a natural fit to usher Discord to an IPO. Citron didn't deny the plan when VentureBeat asked if the company would go public: 'As you can imagine, hiring someone like Humam is a step in that direction.' 'From the very beginning, our mission has been about bringing people together around games,' Citron said in a statement. 'It's a mission I've dedicated my career to, and I'm confident that passing the torch to Humam is the right evolution for Discord's future.' While initially pitched as a way to talk to friend's before, during and after playing games, Discord has morphed into a much larger and more general social platform, serving 'more than 200 million monthly active users worldwide,' the company says.

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