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Discord: Imagine a Place...

Discord: Imagine a Place...

From"Age of Miracles"


Discord: Imagine a Place...

From"Age of Miracles"

ratings:
Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Nov 8, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Imagine a place...    

Built for gamers
Home to everyone playing the Great Online Game
Has 150 million MAUs
Generates $130 million in revenue
Is a web3 sleeper

This week, I teamed up with Mario Gabriele of The Generalist to tell Discord's story. You can read the full piece here. 
We cover:

The circular origin story. Discord’s lore involves more headfakes and false starts than almost any other business.
A dizzying product. Discord can be hard to understand, especially for aged millennials like Packy and me. We do our best to dissect the chaos of Discord’s chat.
A forking user base. Though it began as a tool for gamers, Discord is now widely used. We’ll talk about its primary constituencies.
Slow monetization. While it has grown rapidly, Discord’s been conservative when it comes to extracting money from users.
The web3 opportunity. Discord has become the platform-of-choice for web3 entities, but it doesn’t seem to have totally won over hearts and minds. The company needs to capitalize on its lead and protect its positioning. We have some ideas.
The Great Online Game. How Discord has become the home for those learning, living, and winning on the internet.


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Released:
Nov 8, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

A narrative show that explores the complex industries that will play an important role in creating an abundant future for humanity. Every season, host Packy McCormick – a venture investor and writer of the popular Not Boring newsletter – brings in an expert cohost to go deep into the possibilities and challenges of making “sci-fi” dreams our reality in our lifetimes. The first season starts at the root of all progress and prosperity: unlocking 10x more clean and reliable energy by splitting and fusing atoms themselves.