X hires Nikita Bier, the serial entrepreneur who sold polling startup TBH to Facebook and teen-focused social network Gas to Discord, as its new head of product
Nikita Bier, a co-founder of tbh (acquired by Meta … Jason Nelson / Decrypt : Solana Advisor Nikita Bier Joins Elon Musk's X, Reigniting Crypto Payments Speculation Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media To...
Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down, replaced by Humam Sakhnini effective April 28; Citron will stay on the board and become a CEO advisor
to help friends talk while playing games—has grown into something far bigger than I ever imagined. I'll be transitioning to a new role as Board Member and Advisor, and continuing to support Discord t...
Q&A with Discord CEO Jason Citron on creating a more private internet, developers, community, gaming origins, moderation, layoffs, Loom video meetings, and more
For teens and gamers, Discord has become their entire online social lives. Co-founder Jason Citron thinks the internet is headed more in that direction.
Amid mass tech layoffs, some workers with years of experience or deep technical expertise are having trouble getting hired again while some seek non-tech jobs
Google, Amazon, Microsoft and a raft of others fired thousands of workers in January, continuing a layoff wave that began in 2022. Threads: @beth4158 . Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @remotesynth@...
eBay plans to cut ~1,000 full-time jobs, or ~9% of its workforce, and scale back the number of contracts within its “alternate workforce” over the coming months
9 percent of the company Ann Gehan / The Information : EBay Cuts 9% of Staff as E-Commerce Layoffs Mount Associated Press : A look at some of the companies in the technology sector that have recently ...
Internal memo: Discord CEO Jason Citron says the company is laying off 17% of its staff, or 170 people, after growing its workforce “by 5x since 2020”
I continue to ask whether it's incompetence or optimism that's causing deeper cuts now than last year from tech CEOs? — https://www.theverge.com/... @mttaggart@infosec.town : The layoffs are bad, of...
Alphabet plans to cut ~12,000 jobs, 6%+ of its global workforce; CEO Sundar Pichai says he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”
read the memo CEO Sundar Pichai sent to staff Mary Yang / NPR : Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January BBC : Google parent Alphabet to cut 12,000 jobs Abner L...
Robert Hallock, AMD's director of technical marketing and a public-facing figure on Reddit, Discord, YouTube, and others, is leaving the company after 12 years
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware :
Interview with Discord CEO Jason Citron, who says user numbers doubled and revenue tripled to $130M in 2020, and Discord is developing its own in-house games
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times : Tweets: @chrisrsword and @davidtallon Tweets: Christopher Sword / @chrisrsword : I wouldn't consider myself a Gamer these days. Despite this, I use Discord on a dail...
A profile of Discord, which lies at the center of the gaming world with 100M+ MAUs, as it pushes to turn into a communication tool for everyone, not just gamers
Most longtime Discord users have a similar origin story. They liked playing video games, and liked playing with their friends …Tweets:@joshelman,@adamnash,@rachaelrad,@sachinrekhi,@willreed_21,@peter...