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- Co-founder of social media app Gas, Nikita Bier provided to work for Elon Musk as Twitter’s VP of product.
- A viral platform, Gas topped the App Store ranks and is widespread with excessive schoolers.
- Bier beforehand co-founded an app Facebook purchased, and labored as a Meta product supervisor till 2021.
The co-founder of Gas, which is ranked No. 1 amongst social media platforms in the App Store, is asking Elon Musk once more to hire him as Twitter’s vice chairman of product after Musk took over Twitter this week.
Nikita Bier first tweeted Musk in April providing to work for him, then tweeted once more Friday that his “offer still stands.” Bier stated he is aware of “a little” about how to develop social media platforms and steered Musk check out the App Store charts for “references.”
Bier informed Insider Saturday through DM: “I think the role would be exciting—but Gas is fully occupying my time right now.”
Gas — a social media app the place excessive schoolers can anonymously vote in polls — is rapidly gaining reputation because it was launched in August this 12 months. The product specialist said in mid-October that Gas was buying 30,000 customers per hour and had achieved a each day person base of a million, with a group of solely 4 individuals.
Currently, greater than 500 million polls have been despatched.
The app was designed by co-founders Bier, Isaiah Turner, and Dave Schatz, as a “place that makes us feel better about ourselves” the place customers can vote on polls that embrace compliments like “would probably be a model when they’re older.”
The firm units the ballot’s questions and customers can anonymously solid votes for mates. The individuals with probably the most votes in a ballot obtain a “flame” of their message inbox. The app is just out there in 12 states, however there are plans to develop within the close to future, per the Wall Street Journal.
In his April tweet, Bier informed Musk: “Hire me to run Twitter as VP of Product. I’ve been building social apps for 11 years—and not in a way that leads products to decay like a typical BigTech ‘product director dad’,” including, “Twitter has the potential to be the leading messenger, groups app & content creation tool.”
It shouldn’t be identified if Bier was critical about his provide to work for Musk or if the feedback have been made in jest.
One person commented in April, asking what his Twitter Web3 technique can be and Bier replied: “Fire the executive who made NFT profile photos.”
Bier co-founded comparable social media app, referred to as tbh, which additionally topped the App Store charts earlier than Facebook introduced it was buying it in 2017. The actual price ticket was not made public, however Facebook paid underneath $100 million, in accordance to TechCrunch.
The entrepreneur then labored as a product supervisor at Meta for 4 years and was a seed investor within the widespread social networking app BeReal, in accordance to his LinkedIn profile.
