Jason Citron, co -founder of The Popular Chat App Discord, resigned as CEO of the company on Wednesday, which is great in management before Discord’s A possible general offer.
Mr. Citron said in a statement that the new CEO will be Hammam Sakin, an old warrior in the manufacture of video game for 15 years. Mr. SAKHNINI was formerly Vice Chairman of Activision, games publisher behind titles such as Call of Duty and Candy Crush.
Discord holds talks of public brand early this year, and was estimated by private sector investors in 2021 by about $ 15 billion. The application is especially popular among the players, and it has more than 200 million users.
He said in the statement that Mr. Citron will remain on the company’s board of directors and be a consultant for Mr. Sakhnini. Help Mr. Sakhnini oversee Activision when Microsoft bought it for $ 69 billion In 2023, the company was left shortly after the acquisition.
in interview With Venturebeat, a gaming publication earlier about the change of management, Citron said he is “more than one creator, which is a kind of early stage”, and that “employing a person like Humam is a step in this direction” from the general offering.
Discord was founded in 2015 by Mr. Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who started the video game studio and invented a tool for people to communicate while playing games together.
The company has grown over the years and became especially common during the epidemic, when the interest in video games reached its climax. In 2021, Discord held conversations with Microsoft The acquisition is in the range of $ 10 billionAlthough there is no deal.
Last year, Mr. Citron witnessed a A hearing in Congress on the safety of the child onlineWhere Senators Berju and CEO of Meta, Tiktok and X have gone around the lapses in safety on their social media platforms.
Discord is primarily earning money from a distinguished subscription service, but in recent years, its revenues have expanded the ads and the so -called micro transactions by people who use the application.
