Layoff
Jan 2024Discord cut 17% of its workforce, or about 170 employees, saying it needed to become more efficient after rapid post-2020 hiring.
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Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Discord is a cross-platform communications platform for voice, video, and text chat, built around gaming, friends, and community hangouts. It monetizes through Nitro subscriptions, Server Boosts, digital cosmetics, and an expanding ads/developer platform.
Primary product
Discord communications platform (voice, video, and text chat for gaming and communities)
Founded
2012
Headquarters
444 De Haro Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
Team size
1,000-2,000
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Consumer communications software
Offices
444 De Haro Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States
Schiphol Boulevard 195, 1118BG Schiphol, Netherlands
Business model
freemium
Funding
Stage
late-stage private / generating revenue
Total raised
$995.4M
Latest round
Secondary Market · Mar 2024
People & investors
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
CTO & Co-Founder
Founder; Board Member and Advisor
Investors
Accel
Work & culture
Mission-driven and community-oriented, with an emphasis on belonging, gaming culture, flexible work, learning, and distributed collaboration. Discord publicly describes a flexible work model and a set of working principles that stress ownership, growth, and inclusivity.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Discord states that it offers competitive compensation packages including equity, and U.S. job postings disclose role-based salary bands plus equity and benefits. Public postings also note that some roles are U.S.-based only and some offer remote-in-region options.
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Reproductive, gender-affirming, and mental healthcare
12+ weeks parental leave
Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium: core chat is free; paid monetization includes Nitro subscriptions, Server Boosts, digital cosmetics, and expanding advertising/micro-transactions.
Differentiators
- —Built around gaming-first voice, video, and text chat
- —Persistent server-based communities
- —Low-latency voice/video streaming
- —Easy drop-in/drop-out group chat without needing a call
- —Strong customization with emoji, stickers, soundboard, avatars, and statuses
- —Cross-platform on desktop, mobile, and console
- —Activities and social/game integrations
- —Developer tooling such as Social SDK
Technology
Elixir
Rust
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
USD 600M-$700M
Estimated monthly visits
940M
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Signals & risks
Layoff
Aug 2023Discord cut about 4% of staff, roughly 40 employees, during a company reorganization affecting multiple business units.
SourceLatest news
Discord · Jul 2026
Discord teamed up with Sony Pictures on a Resident Evil Missions Quest and a physical Comic-Con activation, extending Quests beyond the platform for the first time.
Discord · May 2026
Discord expanded Nitro with partner benefits such as Xbox Game Pass, Logitech, and SteelSeries rewards.
Reuters · Jan 2026
Reuters reported that Discord confidentially filed for a U.S. IPO; the company said it remains focused on building a strong business and had more than 200 million monthly active users.
Discord · Oct 2025
Discord disclosed a third-party customer-service breach affecting a limited number of users and approximately 70,000 government-ID photos.
Open Positions
42 jobs at Discord
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