- Co-founder of social media app Fuel, Nikita Bier supplied to work for Elon Musk as Twitter’s VP of product.
- A viral platform, Fuel topped the App Retailer ranks and is standard with excessive schoolers.
- Bier beforehand co-founded an app Fb purchased, and labored as a Meta product supervisor till 2021.
The co-founder of Fuel, which is ranked No. 1 amongst social media platforms within the App Retailer, is asking Elon Musk once more to rent 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 “provide nonetheless stands.” Bier stated he is aware of “a bit of” about the best way to develop social media platforms and prompt Musk check out the App Retailer charts for “references.”
Bier informed Insider Saturday by way of DM: “I feel the function can be thrilling—however Fuel is totally occupying my time proper now.”
Fuel — a social media app the place excessive schoolers can anonymously vote in polls — is rapidly gaining recognition because it was launched in August this 12 months. The product specialist said in mid-October that Fuel was buying 30,000 customers per hour and had achieved a every day person base of 1 million, with a crew of solely 4 individuals.
At present, 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 really feel higher about ourselves” the place customers can vote on polls that embody compliments like “would most likely be a mannequin after they’re older.”
The corporate units the ballot’s questions and customers can anonymously solid votes for mates. The individuals with essentially the most votes in a ballot obtain a “flame” of their message inbox. The app is just obtainable in 12 states, however there are plans to broaden within the close to future, per the Wall Road Journal.
In his April tweet, Bier informed Musk: “Rent me to run Twitter as VP of Product. I have been constructing social apps for 11 years—and never in a method that leads merchandise to decay like a typical BigTech ‘product director dad’,” including, “Twitter has the potential to be the main messenger, teams app & content material creation device.”
It’s not recognized 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: “Hearth the manager who made NFT profile images.”
Bier co-founded comparable social media app, referred to as tbh, which additionally topped the App Retailer charts earlier than Fb introduced it was buying it in 2017. The precise price ticket was not made public, however Fb paid below $100 million, based on TechCrunch.
The entrepreneur then labored as a product supervisor at Meta for 4 years and was a seed investor within the standard social networking app BeReal, based on his LinkedIn profile.
