Chloe Shih

So what is like more...

non-gaming communities look like how do we go more mainstream how do we get non-streamers uh and then for we we built foundational things for like a year and progress to expand beyond your core is extremely slow like it's foundational for a reason you don't see immediate impact on metrics but a year is a very long time for like investors to not see any movement

um so i think if i i think if i were the founders i'd be like this is not really working this was never core to what discord was about and i would rather be really good at one thing than really bad at many or like average at many i think that's the right approach um and i and then in one of the i think all hands

the founders did mention like, it took them a long time to admit that this was like, they were trying to, they were kind of lying to themselves that they could go and expand, but that what they were passionate about, what they cared about, what they knew, what they understood, what their strengths were, were in these priorities.

And I was, once that happened, I was like, I'm out.

Like I'm literally not on those teams.

And I think I'm also at the, I was like kind of,

I just wasn't super, I didn't brand myself internally.

I think a lot of people could criticize me because I had this public, I started making content and that's a tricky place to be when you're trying to be professional and you're creating this public persona on social media, which is in the tech world at the time.

not seen as professional.

Like you are kind of cringe.

You are less, you're taking less seriously.

You're doing a weird TikTok trend.

Like that's, that's weird.

And so I think it was a subject of criticism for sure.

Yeah.

And so I don't think I was like,

I knew I had to do it for myself.

I knew no more.

I'm not going to pour my heart into career, into one job because it's not me fully.