Jason Citron

Originally from San Francisco, Jason Citron was born ion September 21, 1987. Jason Citron studied game design at Full Sail University. After graduating from college, Citron began working for a couple of game studios creating iPhone apps, where he got several awards for the design of mobile games. After graduating, Citron developed his coding abilities by working on Stormfront Studios' video game, Eragon. After that, he joined Double Fine and developed console software for games like Brutal Legend. In 2008, he co-created Aurora Feint, a mobile puzzle game with role-playing features, with Danielle Cassley. Citron developed a landing page for the product OpenFeint that sold the idea but had no accompanying product. GREE bought OpenFeint in 2014 for $104 million, two years after its introduction. In collaboration with Stan Vishnevskiy, Citron created Discord. According to Citron and Vishnevskiy, Discord was launched on May 13, 2015.