Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, after a bit greater than a 12 months within the function.
Bier wrote Wednesday that he thinks it’s “time to cross the torch and demote myself to my pure state: a poster,” including that he’ll proceed to advise the corporate.
The serial entrepreneur and Lightspeed enterprise companion took over the product lead role in July 2025. He wrote Wednesday that, whereas within the function, he oversaw the launch of 30 new merchandise whereas “defending the integrity of the city sq..”
In fact, Bier was additionally head of product throughout quite a lot of scandals at X. Just some days after he took the product lead function, the chatbot Grok — made by xAI, which was then a separate firm owned by Musk — began calling itself “MechaHitler.” Grok has additionally been utilized by X customers to generate nonconsensual nude imagery, together with little one sexual abuse materials, which has gotten the platform in authorized bother.
“X is, and can stay, an important communication know-how in historical past. However working this app is a 24/7 job and it’s now time for me to take a breather,” Bier wrote Wednesday.
