How One Student Built a Study Discord Community With 150K Members in 15 Months

Groups are hard to form in the first place. Think of how many random Discord communities you were invited into the past few years and how many are still active. “Organization for collective action takes a good deal of time to emerge” observes Olson.

The story of Discord is a story of platform shifts. Jason Citron started his career in game development studios creating some a few titles for Xbox and PlayStation 2 (that's how old he is 😂) that you probably never heard of. In 2008, the "app store" was just announced and Jason thought this would be the perfect time to take the entrepreneurial plu

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