Jason Citron, a co -founder of the popular discord in the Social Chat, resigned on Wednesday as the CEO of the company, which is a significant appalling proceedings before the potential public offer of discord.
The new CEO will be Humam Sakhnini, a 15 -year -old veteran of the video game, Mr. Citron said in his statement. Mr. Sakhnini was formerly Deputy Chairman of Activision, a game publisher for titles such as Call of Duty and Candy Crush.
Discord is in interviews to publish this year and be awarded private investors in 2021 at about $ 15 billion. The application is especially popular among players and has more than 200 million users.
Mr. Lemon will remain on the company board and will be Mr. Sakhnini’s advisor, he said in his statement. Mr. Sakhnini helped to supervise Activision when Microsoft bought it for $ 69 billion in 2023 and left the company shortly after the acquisition.
IN interview With Venturebeat, a gaming publication that previously reported about the change of management, Mr. Citron said he is “rather a builder, a early kind of guy” and that “hiring someone as Humam is a step in this direction” of a public offer.
Discord was founded in 2015 by Mr. Lemon and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who founded a video game studio and invented a tool for people to communicate together.
The company grew over the years and became particularly popular during the pandemic when there was interest in video games. In 2021, Discord talked to Microsoft about an acquisition of $ 10 billion, although no agreement was concluded.
Last year, Mr. Lemon testified to the congress hearing of the online security of children, where the senators grilled him and the main executives of META, Tiktok and X for forfeiture safe on their social media platforms.
Discord primarily earns money from its premium service subscription, but has in recent years has expanded its advertising revenues and so -called microtlections from people using the application.
