Is Discord Up For Sale?

Thursday 25th

Popular chat client Discord is potentially up for sale, with Microsoft a potential buyer, according to those in the know
The Slack-like service is incredibly popular with gamers, and could easily slot into Microsoft’s Xbox gaming environment, on consoles and PCs
Microsoft has another Slack-like chat product in Teams, but that has never really taken off outside of the enterprise - so there wouldn't be much overlap between the two clients
The only other tech giant that seems like a suitable purchaser would be Amazon, who could roll Discord into its Twitch game streaming service.
Or, this could all just be rumours to get Discord re-valued for an upcoming IPO

The platform you turn to when none of your friends will help you move is worth more than $400 million dollars.
Airtasker listed on the ASX on Tuesday with a market valuation of $255.4 million. By the end of the day, it was valued at $412.5 million.
CEO Tim Fung, who co-founded the company in 2012, held onto his 12.7 per cent stake in the business through the IPO. His share is now worth more than $52 million.
One of the biggest things the company has going for it? Name recognition. In 2020, 99% of Airtasker’s new customers came from non-paid marketing channels.
That means they don’t need to pay the Google & Facebook tax.

Youtube has a new experimental feature to detect products within a video, and generate links to the websites
The system is a bit of a twofer - training Google’s algorithms on image analysis, and also providing more ways to monetize youtube content.
This seems to be the holy grail of tv marketing, I’ve read similar experiments over the years from network television, smart tvs, Instagram and even youtube in the past
Youtube is already messy enough, do we really want more links and overlays in the service?

Fresh from his separation from the Royal family, Prince Harry is sprucing up his resume.
The royal has been appointed the chief impact officer of BetterUp, a Silicon Valley start-up that provides coaching and mental health assistance for corporate employees.
Harry, who has been vocal about his struggles with mental health, used the company’s app prior to joining it.
In his new role he will “focus on driving advocacy and awareness for mental fitness” and “diversify Betterup’s community of coaches and customers through strategic planning”
Which famous person would you hire for your start-up and what role would you give them?

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