Nikita Bier joins X as Head of Product: ‘I’ve formally posted my strategy to the highest’
Elon Musk’s X has appointed serial entrepreneur and progress hacker Nikita Bier as its new Head of Product.
“I’ve formally posted my strategy to the highest,” Bier wrote on X, alluding to his massive presence on the app.
Bier is finest generally known as the founding father of apps like Fuel, which was acquired by Discord, and TBH, which was acquired by Fb. Each Fuel and TBH have been apps geared towards teenagers, who have been inspired to depart each other compliments.
Extra just lately, Bier has been working as a enterprise companion at Lightspeed and as an advisor to the Solana Basis.
“Whereas I already spend each waking hour on this app, I’ll now be spending that point serving to others unlock that very same worth,” Bier wrote on X about his new place.” And we’ll definitely be leveraging the ability of Grok to create hyper-relevant timelines and assist individuals perceive all the pieces that’s occurring. Thanks @elonmusk and the X workforce for inviting me to work on the product that I dwell and breathe.”
Elon Musk, in return, posted “Welcome to X” and replied to Bier, saying “LFG” adopted by two rocket ship emojis.
Bier’s success up to now has relied not solely on his skill to construct apps that resonate with a youthful demographic, but in addition on driving progress for these apps over a brief interval. At X, he may probably construct options that drive adoption past the person base that’s usually drawn to text-first social networks.
Already, he’s hinted at plans for what comes subsequent, posting to X that “somebody ought to repair notifications,” and suggesting he had prototyped a deeper Grok integration throughout his interview.