Why Discord founder Jason Citron is stepping down from CEO job | exclusive interview
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Jason Citron, the co-founder and CEO of Discord, the communication platform for gamers with more than 200 million monthly active users, has hired former Activision Blizzard Vice Chairman Humam Sakhnini to be his successor.
It has been a long time since Citron made his mark as a serial entrepreneur and sold his last company, OpenFeint, to GungHo for $104 million.
Sakhnini led the successful mobile games business at King for several years after the retirement of the company’s founding CEO Riccardo Zacconi.
In an interview with GamesBeat, the two talked about the state of the game industry, what they had learned in their careers, and what comes next for Discord.
“There’s a lot of love from both gamers and developers toward us,” Sakhnini said. “Our number one mission is to continue to focus the company to make that better every day for everyone interacting with Discord.