With a public providing seeming doubtless, Discord is beefing up its board of administrators, including a former Netflix government 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 “unbelievable expertise constructing and advising world-class corporations,” says Discord CEO and founder Jason Citron.

Six-year-old Discord has reached the lifestage for a startup when it should determine 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 not too long ago scoring a $14 billion valuation final fall—from buyers like Benchmark, Greylock Companions and Index Ventures. The choice final spring to rebuff a roughly $10 billion acquisition offer from Microsoft additionally signifies that Discord imagine it might probably 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 corporations. 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 audience over the past 18 months, searching for to vary its status as a chat app for players. It has 150 million lively month-to-month customers—for perspective, Twitter and Snap have about triple that—and has labored recently to simplify and streamline its app to enchantment to much less tech savvy customers, like lecturers and their college students.

“Discord is reimagining the best way individuals come collectively and discover group on-line,” says Ahuja. “I’m excited to work alongside Jason and the Discord group at the moment of innovation and fast development for the corporate.”