Chloe Shih

Then I joined Discord, and that was amazing.

They reached out.

I joined the team, worked on community engagement.

Yeah, so if you know, like, forum channels, that was me.

And then I worked with your Discord server, actually.

Cool.

Yeah, that was cool.

Thank you.

And then worked on creator revenue at Discord shop.

So that was really cool.

And then at the top of last year, January is when they announced the layoffs.

I actually took mental health leave right before that.

So I was like, really needed a break from the back to back tech sprints I've been having in my career.

And that was the first time I took a leave, came back and I just like knew a layoff was coming.

And I knew I was not in a critical department of gaming, which I knew like the direction of the company.

And then I was just braced for impact and it happened.

And that was like so scary.

This is one of the scariest things that I experienced in my career.

This is all speculation, so I don't have any concrete evidence.

But I just knew that when the pandemic hit and Discord numbers were skyrocketing and we would have to continue that, I was hired to expand beyond gaming.