X hires Nikita Bier, the serial entrepreneur who sold polling startup TBH to Facebook and teen-focused social network Gas to Discord, as its new head of product
Nikita Bier, a co-founder of tbh (acquired by Meta … Jason Nelson / Decrypt : Solana Advisor Nikita Bier Joins Elon Musk's X, Reigniting Crypto Payments Speculation Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : X Hires New Head of Product to Re-Ignite Growth Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : X is hiring the king of growth hacking, Nikita Bier who sold variants of the same teen-focused app TBH & Gas to Facebook & Discord, as it's new head of product. — I find this most interesting as a sign that Elon is going back to focusing on Tesla given all its problems and leaving X for others to salvage. … X: Nikita Bier / @nikitabier : Ladies and gentlemen, I've officially posted my way to the top: I'm joining @X as Head of Product. 𝕏 is the most important social network in the world. It's where internet culture originates and where the world's most influential people convene... Elon Musk / @elonmusk : Welcome to 𝕏! Packy McCormick / @packym : “Here's a bag of cash. Can we skip the part where you sell me a teenager app and I shut it down in like 2 weeks?” Saila / @sailaunderscore : Nikita did the same thing Chamath does, except slightly earlier in the pipeline and selling to companies. No one hates Nikita. Lesson in there, sell your scams privately and everyone will clap. [image] Nikita Bier / @nikitabier : @elonmusk Never give up Daniel / @growing_daniel : ngl this is actually a huge moment for this app Alex Friedman / @heyalexfriedman : This is like when LeBron joined the Lakers but for the chronically online Josh Elman / @joshelman : This is big news. For Nikita, for X, and for all of us. And full circle for me - I got lucky enough to work on this wonderful product in 2010 and start the growth teams Invested in Nikita when I was a VC. And now he goes to restart growth efforts and much more! Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : Well this is hopeful news for X. @nikitabier, to add to the list of feature requests: - Please end the War On Links - Boost the follow signal a bit - Really kill the bots this time - Relax the spammy upsell CTAs on every tweet, etc. Nikita Bier / @nikitabier : Someone should fix notifications Tom Schmidt / @tomhschmidt : ok new feature idea: you can pay $1 to see who follows you [image] Dax / @thdxr : i'm exactly 50/50 on whether this is gonna be amazing or horrible Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Elon managed to hire someone who's actually smart. I didn't think it could be done @astrodanish : this is the perfect move. @X has the best platform of any social media in that it gives total freedom to the user (video, photo, words), has low friction to posting (you can shitpost 20 times a day unlike instagram where the barrier to making a post is so high, they had to add “stories"), and allows organic reach. the only thing X is missing is distribution. When normal people can get as into X as the tech bros are it will be the biggest app on the planet.