When we pivoted to Discord, half of our team thought it was a horrible idea, and one employee even quit through a Post-it note, showing the skepticism we faced.

After we fully committed to Discord, we figured out how to make it work within four weeks, demonstrating the importance of focus and conviction in a startup.

During a challenging fundraising round, I once offered to return investors' money because I believed in the long-term vision of Discord over short-term gains.

It became clear that 'Fates Forever' wasn't going to be big enough to bootstrap our network, so we decided to focus on launching Discord as a standalone chat app.

We had to make tough decisions during the pandemic, including layoffs, but I aimed to do it with compassion and transparency.

When faced with the decision to lay off employees, my co-founder George and I chose to uphold our core values instead and kept the entire team together, asking everyone to take deep cuts to weather the storm.

I had to make tough decisions, including closing a thousand underperforming stores and laying off employees, which was emotionally challenging for me.

We decided to be intentional about making Discord an amazing place to work for creative people, prioritizing a good environment over just pushing people hard.

We decided to stop working on our initial business model and pivot to something else, which involved a lot of difficult decisions, including letting go of our team.