Nikita Bier is Head of Product at X, appointed in July 2025 to drive product innovation and user growth, with plans to use Grok to develop hyper-relevant timelines. He joined Lightspeed Venture Partners as Product Growth Partner on September 5, 2024, became an ecological consultant and advisor to Solana in March 2025 to help screen and promote mobile application development, and has served as a part-time advisor to xAI since October 2024. Nikita Bier's Twitter Score is 999 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #23 (top 0.1%) out of 389,201 accounts tracked, among 36 accounts scoring above 900.
Nikita Bier co-founded tbh with Erik Hazzard, Kyle Zaragoza, and Nicolas Ducdodon; Facebook acquired the app on October 16, 2017 for less than $100 million, by which point tbh had reached number 1 on the U.S. App Store with 2.5 million daily active users. Facebook discontinued tbh on July 2, 2018, citing low usage, and in August 2018 BuzzFeed News reported that a confidential post-acquisition memo from the founders described a psychological trick using Instagram to target high school students for coordinated app launches. He also co-founded Gas, which topped U.S. App Store charts in October 2022 with over 1 million daily active users; Discord acquired Gas on January 17, 2023. He founded Midnight Labs in 2010 and earlier built Politify, a policy calculator that drew roughly 4 million users.
Nikita Bier has been mentioned by 1,309 accounts, with 2,569 total mentions across the platform.
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Nikita Bier has 1,175,568 followers as of July 2026 on this platform and has published 11,578 posts since 2012. The accounts that follow Nikita Bier include 3,592 founders, 694 angel investors, 2,429 influencers and 83 VCs, among them Balaji, Marc Andreessen, Toly, Ansem, ZachXBT and Elon Musk.