Nikita Bier

Product Growth Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners · 0 appearances on the record.

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Nikita Bier is known for creating viral social apps tbh and Gas, which were acquired by Meta and Discord, respectively. He previously served as Head of Product at X and actively invests in and advises consumer applications.

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Disclosure

Bier: Gas prevents anonymous bullying with pre-written, uplifting friend polls

“So the way that we've designed Gas Gas is similar to a lot of anonymous apps that exist in the App Store today, but many of those have been plagued by bullying, and we use a novel mechanic where you answer polls about your friends that we write, and we make al…”

Nikita Bier Oct 25, 2022 ▶ 2:38 How to & How NOT to do Layoffs, the Tax Tip to save you MILLIONS and is the Gas App Going to Solve Bullying?

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Insight

Pujji: Founders should not build startups expecting a rapid acquisition

“I wouldn't now tell anyone listening to ever try that. Like if that happens, if you're Nikita and in nine months, they buy you for a hundred million. God bless. Like that's amazing. I don't think that's the norm.”

Jesse Pujji Oct 25, 2022 ▶ 11:45 How to & How NOT to do Layoffs, the Tax Tip to save you MILLIONS and is the Gas App Going to Solve Bullying?

Assertion Supported

Lieberman: Gas app reached 30,000 downloads per hour at its peak

“I last saw Nikita say that they're getting 30,000 downloads of the app an hour”

Alex Lieberman Oct 25, 2022 ▶ 3:50 How to & How NOT to do Layoffs, the Tax Tip to save you MILLIONS and is the Gas App Going to Solve Bullying?

Assertion Partly supported

Lieberman: Facebook acquired TBH for $100M just three months after its founding

“Nikita founded an app called TBH and he built it in 2017. He was three months into building the company And Facebook acquired it for a hundred million dollars. And then in 2018, it was like nine to 12 months after they bought TBH, Facebook shut it down.”

Alex Lieberman Oct 25, 2022 ▶ 6:36 How to & How NOT to do Layoffs, the Tax Tip to save you MILLIONS and is the Gas App Going to Solve Bullying?

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How to & How NOT to do Layoffs, the Tax Tip to save you MILLIONS and is the Gas App Going	Oct 25, 2022	31s	clip played

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