> 1) A good chunk of Discord is owned by Tencent, a big Chinese conglomerate The most credible source from this is this article[0], but since it's VC we have n

> 1) A good chunk of Discord is owned by Tencent, a big Chinese conglomerate The most credible source from this is this article[0], but since it's VC we have no idea what the ownership looks like. For all we know Tencent owns 5% or less of Discord, especially given two companies are listed before them in the article: > The round was led by Greenoaks Capital with participation from Firstmark, Tencent, IVP, Index Ventures and Technology Opportunity Partners. In general Tencent has more pull in other big gaming companies[1], which is more concerning imo. 0: https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/21/gaming-chat-startup-discord-raises-150m-surpassing-2b-valuation/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/21/gaming-chat-startup-discor... 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21190677 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21190677