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| Tuesday, March 9, 2021
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
year, the company generated
$130 million in revenue, up
from nearly $45 million in 2019,
according to a person familiar
with the company’s finances.
Still, Discord said it isn’t
profitable. The majority of its
growth has been through
word-of-mouth, though in re-
cent months the company said
it has invested in promoting
itself to college students.
Discord users form groups
called servers that consist of
friends or communities dedi-
robust alternative to existing
options at the time. Discord’s
appeal expanded to include
groups of high-schoolers doing
homework together, friends
watching a movie over a shared
screen and individual investors
from Reddit Inc.’s WallStreet-
Bets community, which gained
notoriety due to its role in the
GameStop frenzy.
Discord said it has doubled
its monthly user base to about
140 million as daily life moved
online in the pandemic. Last
Facebook
Discord
Twitter
Snapchat
Reddit
Average time spent in January
on social networks per U.S.
adult user
U.S. monthly visits on Discord
via desktop and mobile web
Sources: Verto Analytics (social time spent); SimilarWeb (monthly visits)
15 hours, 44 mins.
4 hours, 41 mins
2 hours, 20 mins.
1 hour, 42 mins.
1 hour, 19 mins.
700
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
million
Jan.
2020
GameStop’s stock skyrock-
eted in January when an online
community encouraged hordes
of people to buy shares in it and
other heavily shorted compa-
nies. While GameStop’s shares
have fallen since cresting at
$483, it’s remained well above
the roughly $17 price point it
had at the start of the year.
In recent years GameStop
has struggled to turn a profit in
the face of mounting competi-
tion from online retailers such
as Amazon.com Inc., as well as
changing consumer habits.
After reporting losses in five
of the past six quarters,
GameStop has said it expects to
post a profit for the quarter
ended Jan. 30.
roughly 10% stake in GameStop
in November, urged the com-
pany to shift away from its
bricks-and-mortar
business
model and instead focus on e-
commerce. He joined the board
in January.
Mr.
Wolf
has
owned
GameStop shares since 2012. In
2019, he teamed up with an-
other investment firm to re-
vamp GameStop’s board and
boost stock buybacks. He was
elected to the board last year
after criticizing the Grapevine,
Texas, company for squander-
ing shareholders’ money.
In another wild trading day
for
GameStop,
its
shares
jumped 41%, or $56.76, to
$194.50 on Monday.
tinue to focus on identifying ac-
tions
that
can
transform
GameStop into a technology
business and help create endur-
ing value for stockholders,” the
company said.
Messrs. Cohen and Wolf
have been pushing for change
at the retailer for some time.
Mr. Cohen, who disclosed a
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GameStop
Focuses on
Strategy
sion didn’t apply to its Uber
Eats food-delivery business.
But labor activists say it sets a
potential precedent for others
in the U.K. who work for com-
panies in the gig economy,
where apps distribute individ-
ual tasks to a pool of people
that the app makers regard as
independent contractors.
To generate new sources of
revenue, Deliveroo has been
expanding its network of de-
livery-only kitchens that res-
taurants use to prepare meals
for food delivery. An Amazon-
led investment in the company
of $575 million last year is
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