Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down

Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down and volition beryllium replaced by erstwhile Activision Blizzard and King exec Humam Sakhnini, according to a property release. Sakhnini takes implicit connected April 28th. Citron volition enactment connected the committee of directors and service arsenic an advisor to the CEO.

“As we participate our adjacent phase, I’ve been reflecting connected however I tin champion lend to Discord’s semipermanent success,” Citron says successful a connection shared with employees and posted to Discord’s website. “The occupation of a CEO is perpetually evolving, and implicit the years I person continuously ‘hired myself retired of a job.’ Usually that means delegating enactment and past taking connected antithetic enactment challenges. However, arsenic I look astatine what is needed of Discord’s CEO implicit the adjacent fewer years, I recognize that it’s clip for maine to virtually ‘hire myself retired of a job.’”

Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord’s different co-founder, volition stay astatine the institution arsenic main exertion officer.

“I look guardant to moving with Stan and Discord’s talented squad to standard our concern portion staying existent to the company’s halfway ngo and the peculiar transportation it has with subordinate communities,” Sakhnini says successful a statement. “We’re inactive astatine the opening of gaming’s interaction connected amusement and culture, and Discord is perfectly positioned to play a cardinal relation successful that future.”

The enactment displacement is happening arsenic Discord is reportedly exploring an IPO. In an interrogation with GamesBeat, Citron said that Discord didn’t person plans to denote astir perchance going public, but noted that “as you tin imagine, hiring idiosyncratic similar Humam is simply a measurement successful that direction.”