With a public providing seeming possible, Discord is beefing up its board of administrators, including a former Netflix govt and one other from Block, the corporate previously referred to as Sq..

Becoming a member of Discord’s administrators are Leslie Kilgore, Netflix’s ex-chief advertising and marketing officer, and Amrita Ahuja, Block’s chief monetary officer. The pair have “unimaginable expertise constructing and advising world-class firms,” says Discord CEO and founder Jason Citron.

Six-year-old Discord has reached the lifestage for a startup when it should resolve whether or not to proceed taking giant quantities of personal capital, which might imply more and more much less fairness for founders and early executives and shareolders, or head for the general public market. Discord has raised over $1 billion in whole—most just lately scoring a $14 billion valuation final fall—from traders like Benchmark, Greylock Companions and Index Ventures. The choice final spring to rebuff a roughly $10 billion acquisition supply from Microsoft additionally signifies that Discord consider it will possibly carve out a future as a standalone public firm.

One other signal a startup is mulling an IPO: bringing on executives like Kilgore and Ahuja, each with expertise at public firms. At Netflix, Kilgore helped within the streamer’s earliest digital subscriptions push, working there from 2000 to 2012, a time when its customers grew from 100,000 to over 26 million. (Discord has pinned its future on subscriptions, too, the place customers pay further to get extra options, like a extra customizable profile.) And earlier than Block, Ahuja labored as a CFO inside Activision Blizzard.

Discord has sought to broaden its viewers during the last 18 months, searching for to vary its repute as a chat app for players. It has 150 million energetic month-to-month customers—for perspective, Twitter and Snap have about triple that—and has labored these days to simplify and streamline its app to attraction to much less tech savvy customers, like academics and their college students.

“Discord is reimagining the way in which individuals come collectively and discover neighborhood on-line,” says Ahuja. “I’m excited to work alongside Jason and the Discord staff right now of innovation and fast progress for the corporate.”