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I make apps grow really fast. founder @gasappteam (acq by discord), ex-founder @thetbhapp (acq by facebook), ex-new products @meta

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@nikitabier

Nikita Bier

2 years

After 10 years of building consumer social apps, I've decided to start exploring new areas. Building these products is an unforgiving grind—but I learned a lot along the way. For those embarking on this path, here's everything you need to know: TIME FOR A THREAD 👇

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27 days

Happy Easter

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4 months

Uber in 2013: $3 to go to the airport Wearing a tuxedo Opens the door for you Uber in 2024: $90 to go 6 blocks Smells like a locker room Wheels fall off mid-ride

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The European mind cannot comprehend this

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Every single European I meet is 32 years old, working on their “Masters” and has never held a job in their life.

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@ulricmusset Opening WhatsApp feels like I'm visiting a developing country

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6 months

You vs. the guy she told you not to worry about

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8 months

The best way to stay unemployed is to use the "Open To Work" avatar on LinkedIn.

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2 months

Hi Sharks, I am seeking to destroy $1 trillion of shareholder value.

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Sold my company 5 years ago to the world's largest consumer app. Today I sold my company to the next largest one. Gas has been acquired by Discord.

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Being a home owner is just replacing everything that isn’t concrete or metal every 18 months until you die.

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My friend paid the $250,000 deposit for the new Tesla Roadster on the day of the announcement and is still waiting after 5 years. If he instead invested that in Tesla, it would be worth $1.83 million today.

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. @elonmusk Monetization idea: I would pay $100 to revert all product changes back what it was before you acquired Twitter.

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30 days

This is a PR masterclass. Just. Post. Through. It.

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Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.

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Effects of light viewing on health and physiology according to time of day/night. There are 6 major takeaways.

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2 years

Name a food with worse UX than bruschetta. I’ll wait.

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To me, this is the best real estate in the world. Half acre lots, a block to the beach, walkable city life, no crime, still connected to LA and complete privacy. Current entry level price: $14 million

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Renaming Twitter will go down as the dumbest business decision in history

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Under the App Store's new fee structure for Europe, if you make $10 million in sales, Apple's cut is $6.2 million annually. Assuming you have no operating costs or salaries, your take home amount: $2 million after tax—or 20% of your sales I will never launch an app in Europe.

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Google should acquire reddit for $10 billion and just run it at a loss. With the reddit blackout, they just lost their most valuable English search results. Keeping that information online is absolutely worth <1% of their market cap.

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1 year

Just received a pitch deck that included a slide with the founder’s testosterone levels.

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3 months

manager: it’s been 6 months. why haven’t you shipped anything? me:

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3 years

I just minted an NFT and bid on my own auction and “sold” it to myself for $100K. Then I re-listed it and some sucker bid $30K and they were thrilled to get it for “70% off” Don’t listen to anyone. NFTs are the future.

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6 months

Borat voice: “Is there Jew in here?”

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One of the antisemitic rioters appears to have looked for Jews in the plane’s engine

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2 years

Look, just because: • Ethereum is down 66% from its highs • All of DeFi “yield” ended up being a Ponzi scheme • NFT “art” ultimately was just speculation • The biggest real world use-case of crypto is *still* buying cocaine online Doesn’t mean that web3 isn’t gonna happen

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1 year

Just reached nirvana.

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4 months

There is something beautiful about Bill Ackman making an entire university’s faculty look bad so his wife’s oversights don’t look bad by comparison. Truly the highest calling of a husband.

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I've seen this movie before.

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2 years

Zelensky: I will die for Ukraine SF School Board: Hey that’s totally cool but it’s best to spell it Ukrainx

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2 years

Never forget.

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1 year

I’m finished

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3 months

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t need a daily routine. You can eat when you’re hungry, you can sleep when you’re tired, you can drop all commitments if a special opportunity comes up. Wellness podcasters are just promoting a lifestyle for people who can’t make…

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1 year

Work ethic of tech workers Ivy League: 6/10 Bottom Rung University: 4/10 Mid-Tier State School w/ Weak CS program: 10/10

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At Facebook, I coined a term called Filipino Product Market-Fit: Every year a product manager would observe their new product getting intense adoption in the Phillipines and proclaim their idea was working. Directors would quickly staff the team and alert their VPs of the…

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The dumbest thing I hear is “Facebook listens to your conversations” My coworkers were a bunch of risk-averse MBAs who’d never build something that cool. So why do you see ads for something you talked about? It’s because your life is predictable & the ad algorithm is that good.

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I have an idea for an app.

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The only thing impressive about Elon Musk is his space company, his car company, his payments company, his tunneling company, and his brain connectivity company. Literally nothing else.

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. @elonmusk 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.” Twitter has the potential to be the leading messenger, groups app & content creation tool.

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It is unfair for Elon to take credit for his inventions because he didn't personally: • Build the computer that was used • Generate the electricity & mine the necessary raw materials himself • Establish the nation state in which the invention occurred • Invent the field of…

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X might be the most insane example of “founder naming his product after a domain he’s been sitting on, even if it doesn’t make sense”

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7 months

Money printer unlocked

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11 months

I am looking for senior Vision Pro developers. Minimum: 7-10 years experience

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1 year

The level of wealth I aspire to is flying business class yet feeling no urge to post photos of it.

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As a Jew, this feels like the end of an era. I gotta hand it to us: we had a great run. For the last 70 years, we ran Hollywood and every mom in America wanted us to marry their daughters. It’s been a privilege and an honor. I’ll be converting to Islam this weekend. Inshallah.

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Zuck had one deep insight in 2004: that college men were too afraid to ask for a girl’s phone number and that they’d prefer to just friend them on Facebook. The strength of that insight, along with some organizational alignment, grew the entire network to where it is today. But…

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I truly don’t understand how all of New England was duped into thinking The Hamptons is a good place to go on vacation when it’s a faster and cheaper to stay in Bermuda—a literal tropical island.

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Ladies & gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you to @dupedotcom I worked closely with @ghoshal on the concept + design of this tool to find the best price for any furniture item. It’s not perfect yet—but it will eventually intercept every transaction on the internet.

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I like how Zuck realized that the reason people disliked him was not because of the things Facebook did (any other company would’ve made poorer decisions in those circumstances)—but because he was goofy-looking. So he did what he always does: hire a growth team (a personal…

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3 years

The four stages of caring about politics Age 0-14: Whatever, this is dumb. Age 14-22: This is literally the war between good and evil. How can you not be involved? Age 22-28: This is complicated. There are trade-offs to both sides. Age +28: Whatever, this is dumb.

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I don’t get these morons who somehow justify paying 40% more to live in California and in exchange, they only get +200% more days where they can go outside.

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Zuck got roasted today, but I think a lot of people miss the point: Facebook actually does studies on the impacts of their products, so that they can address those problems. When I was building apps there, I had access to PhD researchers to fully understand the impacts of my…

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Snapchat is easily the most undervalued social networking app. Literally one feature away away from 10x revenue: A girl viewed your story 3 times. $1.99 to reveal

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6 months

Before everyone gets excited, let’s lay down some ground rules for this cycle: - no monkey jpegs - no superbowl ads - no “wagmi frens” speak - no dog money - no 90000% APY ponzis Are we in agreement?

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2 years

US foreign policy right now

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3 years

Every investment I’ve made in startups led by founders who post exotic travel and night clubs on their Instagram story has gone to $0.

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1 year

The perfect cake doesn’t exi… Thank you @NicoleBehnam

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2 years

After 4 long years, today is my last day at Facebook. Here’s a quick thread on everything I learned: 👇🧵

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8 months

All men go through their Artisan Phase, where they drink craft IPAs & acidic pour-over coffee—and they grimace as they force it down their throat. This peaks at 28 but then by 35, they no longer feel the need to signal so they revert back to watery gas station coffee and Corona.

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10 months

I experimented with sex and drugs in high school. I was part of the control group.

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There is a deep misunderstanding of what “dating apps” are for—mostly because they’re called “dating apps”. Modern dating apps are an entertainment product: a gallery of people in your area and someone will occasionally like your photos. This is all that needs to happen for the…

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Lifehack: Setup an auto-responder on Linkedin to force people to pay if they want to talk to you.

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1 year

Getting your app featured in a 5min segment on a national morning show with 4 million viewers: 1000 extra downloads

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5 months

@sama I have an idea for an app

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1 year

Microsoft and Google will battle it out with AI search while the next generation looks up how to do their taxes on TikTok.

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When the tbh app hit 4 million DAU, our burn rate excluding AWS (i.e., salaries and office only) was $32,000/mo. And every morning on the commute to the office, I called all our service providers and demanded a 30% cut to our invoices. When I hear seed stage companies burn…

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The richest man in the world is a shitposting meme king. The best performing investor of the year is posting shirtless thirst traps. If you don’t have a sense of humor online, good luck having any success in this decade.

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Got a piece of steak stuck in my throat for 4 hours last night. Tried everything to get it out. Went to the ER and was injected with 1ml of Glucagon and it came loose in 3 minutes. Doctors are Gods.

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Can’t wait to return this after 13.9 days

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Facebook's hands are tied 1—High ARPU coastal users have churned; TikTok is eating their lunch 2—They can't acquire because of antitrust scrutiny 3—They can't build because founders don't want to be there 4—IDFA killed their ability to target ads 5—The metaverse is 10yrs out RIP

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2 years

Friendly reminder. This keeps currencies stable:

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I’m genuinely confused how a world with globalized media (and shared cultural norms) can exist—and yet hundreds of people today felt it was honorable to parade lifeless civilian bodies in the street.

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Today I declined the role of CEO at OpenAI. After some deep soul searching, I realized I know nothing about AI or what everyone is arguing about.

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2 years

To show dominance, I start every meeting with “I have a hard stop in 10 minutes”

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1 year

If you're a startup with less than 5 headcount, your productivity stack should be: An iMessage thread and a single Apple Note

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If I was putting together a team to make a new viral app, the expectations would be simple: You will work for 10 hours a day for 7 days a week and put all other life plans on hold for 4 months. In exchange, you will own double digit equity, draw no salary, but 3 meals a day will…

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Head of Microsoft AI finding out that Sam Altman is now his boss

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@Jason Minimize the number of podcasters on the cap table

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Before launching a product, sit down and draft a murderboard: list out every possible criticism with the worst headline possible. Then, while preserving the core value proposition, reposition the product so it’s bulletproof against any criticism. Don’t delegate this: you own the…

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When a founder you invested in announces a podcast

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New Zuck banger just dropped.

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Zuck is incredibly good at throwing his weight behind something at the precise moment his products begin to lose relevancy. He never misses the next train.

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Imagine being a designer at Zoom

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2 years

If someone put a gun to my head and said to explain what web3 is, tell my parents I love them.

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2 years

There is no group worse at buying real estate than the tech community. Just add a Nest thermostat and stage it with midcentury furniture and you can scam any FAANG engineer out of millions.

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Found a 1959 Milo Baughman stereo console in Ohio. Shipped it to NYC and restored it.

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@candyflipline happy easter

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3 years

If you invite 10 guys to a party, 17 will will show up. If you invite 10 girls to a party, 3 will show up. Few understand this.

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Getting a meal with men in tech (2024): • Everyone orders rabbit food (i.e., sprouts, grains, soil) and water • Bill is split 17 ways

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3 years

In the last 10 years, no one has ever asked what my GPA is.

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5 months

What’s new with Sam Almond and his sentence finisher website?

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99% of Twitter users never encounter a bot. When Elon replied to one of my tweets on Saturday, I received 10,000 crypto spam notifications over the next 24 hours. Paid verification solves a very specific problem—for a very specific user.

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my boss: why do you need a raise? me:

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Bull thesis: Zuck will die before he loses a platform war to Apple.

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Men, what’s stopping you from living like this?

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There’s a very specific moment when business influencer becomes more influencer than business person (i.e., they make more money from their audience than their professional work). The moment they cross that threshold, it’s very important to stop listening to them.

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The greatest lie told to the public is that people make apps to sell data. Data has no value—you can buy a complete data set on the entire US population for under $10,000. In reality, we actually do it to sell engagement. Attention is more valuable than a spreadsheet. And you…

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Twitter Growth Strategy 0-500 Followers: Reply Guy 501-2K: Niche Bangers 2-5K: Thirst Traps 5-10K: Parody News 10-25K: Cringe Threads 25-50K: Shitposts 50-75K: Fortune Cookies 75-100K: Cringe Bangers >100K: Get Cancelled

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