~$500M annualized revenue. Zero external funding. ~100 employees. 21 million Discord members. Profitable in six months. The most capital-efficient AI company on Earth.
Discord is the community layer of the creator economy. Founded 2015 by Jason Citron and Stan Vishnevskiy. ~200M+ MAU. $15B valuation (Series H, 2021). Confidential S-1 filed 2024. The largest gated content corpus on the consumer internet.
Discord. Substack. Patreon. Skool. Geneva. Circle. Reddit. The community layer of the creator economy, mapped.
Three billion people now play games — and the social layer is the largest media category on earth. Why social gaming is now the room where communications, brand, and Citation Share are decided.
Skype was retired by Microsoft on May 5, 2025. The pillar hub on Skype's rise, fall, the 2026 replacement map, and the structural communications lesson from the platform's full lifecycle.
