--- description: Find out why Discord was selected for the list title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2023: Discord image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8ef6f39171c15d2/698a3dc301168243eb9831fb/time100-companies-Discord-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jun 21, 2023 # Discord Gathering spaces by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/) ## Megan McCluskey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer  Discord co-founders Jason Citron, CEO, and Stan Vishnevskiy, CTO. Discord co-founders Jason Citron, CEO, and Stan Vishnevskiy, CTO.Courtesy of Discord Long the top gaming chat platform, Discord has evolved into the online forum of choice for many communities—from houseplant aficionados to movie buffs. Its 19 million weekly active servers give 150 million monthly active users semi­private rooms to connect around specific interests via voice, video, and text—for bad or good. In April, one user was charged with sharing dozens of classified documents in a Discord group in one of the most significant national intelligence leaks in U.S. history. At the same time, Midjourney, a text-to-image AI server, has ballooned to over 17 million members. “That multiplayer aspect has made this a really exciting place for new things,” says senior VP of product Peter Sellis. --- ### More from TIME --- _A weekly newsletter featuring conversations with the world’s top CEOs, managers, and founders._ [_Join the Leadership Brief_](https://cloud.newsletters.time.com/signup?nln=leadership&source=100companies "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285139/discord/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285139/discord/"},"headline":"Discord","datePublished":"2023-06-21T10:55:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:15:31.909Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285139/discord/","keywords":["TIME100 Companies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8ef6f39171c15d2/698a3dc301168243eb9831fb/time100-companies-Discord-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"creator":"Megan McCluskey","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte8ef6f39171c15d2/698a3dc301168243eb9831fb/time100-companies-Discord-2023.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285139/discord/","name":"Discord"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME100 Most Influential Companies: OpenAI","description":"Find out why OpenAI was selected for the list","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/EU3F7DHt/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2023-06-21T11:00:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/EU3F7DHt.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285139/discord/","duration":"PT4M21S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies-2023/6285139/discord/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```