Founder Profile
Jason Citron
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Jason Citron?
Jason Citron is a founder of Discord Inc., which was founded in 2015 with Stanislav Vishnevskiy.
- Company founded
- Discord Inc.
- Founded
- 2015
- Co-founders
- Stanislav Vishnevskiy
Background
Jason Citron founded OpenFeint in 2009, a mobile gaming social network that he sold to GREE for $104 million in 2011, providing the capital and experience to found Hammer & Chisel and subsequently pivot to create Discord. His decision to abandon a funded mobile game when the chat tool showed higher engagement demonstrated a rare strategic agility that defined Discord's entire trajectory.
Founding Story
Jason Citron co-founded Discord in 2015 and was its CEO until April 2025, when he handed the role to Humam Sakhnini and moved to the board as an advisor. He previously founded OpenFeint, a mobile gaming social network sold to GREE in 2011 for a reported $104 million, and then Hammer & Chisel, whose tablet game Fates Forever failed before the team pivoted to Discord. As CEO he led Discord through rapid pandemic-era growth, the end of acquisition talks with Microsoft in 2021, and a 17% layoff in January 2024. Jason Citron was born in 1984.
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- Discord marks ten years since its May 2015 launch (Discord Inc.)
- Discord Appoints Humam Sakhnini as Chief Executive Officer (Discord Inc.)