Instead, you flit among various privately administered servers with vastly different tones and sorts of content. There is very little, if any, "public commons" on Discord. Here's Discord's basic pitch to consumers: In minutes or less, anyone can easily set up a private server where you and your friends can immediately start chatting (text, voice, video), sharing links and files and basically doing your own thing. Based on those conversations, here are a few overlapping and speculative hypotheses about why no one has made Discord an offer it can't refuse. So I asked some people close to those companies and Discord their opinions. A single job listing doesn't mean that Discord is planning to go public (having your books ready for the SEC is a good idea, regardless), but again it raises the question: In a world where many of the biggest companies are spending billions to stake out leadership in gaming and online community, why hasn't Discord been snapped up?Īfter all, one can make a strong strategic case that the powerful, persistent layer of social engagement emerging on Discord could add immense value to the ecosystems being developed by Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others. The public markets seem hungry for exposure to gaming and online community. Among the duties: "Prepare the company for public company accounting and reporting standards."Ī year ago it would have been crazy to suggest that a money-losing or, at best, marginally profitable chat platform go public, but obviously things have changed. I shelved the thought until a few weeks ago, when I saw a Discord job posting for a new corporate controller.
Discord's user base is surging - it now counts more than 100 million monthly users - and its engagement metrics are fabulous.īut if Discord is so great, why hasn't anyone bought it yet?Ī couple years ago - long before the company's valuation reached $3.5 billion - I heard from relevant people that Discord was being pitched to the tech and gaming giants. As a personal (non-enterprise) platform for integrated text, voice and video communication with preselected affinity groups, I can't think of anything better. I'm on 28 different Discord servers spanning just about every aspect of my gamer life in addition to Protocol's new server.
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