20VC: Discord's Jason Citron on Why Everything We are Taught About Hiring & Management is BS | Do Richer Founders & Gamer Founders Make Better Founders? | Never Before Told Moments Behind Scaling to 200M Users

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · Nov 25, 2024 · 50m

Jason Citron is the Co-Founder and CEO of Discord, a voice, video and text platform for friends playing games. Jason has raised $1BN for the company and was able to scale to 200M users. Prior to co-founding Discord, Jason founded OpenFeint, the biggest social mobile gaming platform, which sold to GREE in 2011 for $104 million.

In Today's Episode with Jason Citron We Discuss:

1. Leadership Lessons That are Total BS:

Hiring: Why does Jason believe hiring experienced executives is the worst thing you can do for your company? What did he learn by doing it?

Culture: Why does Jason believe that…