Former X Product Head Nikita Bier Lists One-on-One Video Consultations on Intro for $500 per Minute
Bier's consultation fee is set at $500 per minute
Nikita Bier has listed one-on-one video consultations on the expert appointment platform Intro, priced at $500 per minute. A 30-minute session costs $15,000, which translates to $30,000 per hour. The page specifies that only companies that have received venture capital can make appointments.
The topics that can be discussed include viral growth, product, design, community, financing, and social account growth. Example questions provided by the platform include how to launch the app and which distribution channels are most suitable. Some pages list a starting price of $7,500 for 15 minutes, but the actual purchase options start from 30 minutes at $15,000. Another option lists 60 minutes at $30,000 marked down to $28,000, and 75 minutes at $34,500. On Intro, his price ranks second, with Comfrt founder Hudson Leogrande charging $20,000 per session ahead of him.
Bier served as the head of X products from July 2025 until August 5, 2026, when he stepped down but remained as an advisor. Prior to this, he co-founded the anonymous voting app tbh, which was acquired by Facebook in 2017; he also founded Gas, which was acquired by Discord in 2023. Both apps reached number one on the App Store but were later shut down by the buyers. Reports also mention his role as a product growth partner at Lightspeed and an advisor to the Solana Foundation.
This is not a new fund; it is a listing of his time after stepping down. Buyers are limited to founders who have already secured venture capital, and those without funding cannot access the appointment page. A 30-minute session costs $15,000 in cash, coming from the company's budget for personal consulting, without exchanging equity. In October, some still compared this pricing to break down the same set of consumer application methods into free open-source skills.
The seller is a former product head who has been acquired twice and has two apps that topped the app store, while the buyer is a startup willing to spend funding money on half an hour of distribution advice. The beneficiaries are experts who can set the appointment threshold at "funded," while those who have not secured venture capital are pressured and thus excluded from the calls. The platform's commission is not separately listed in the pricing.
Source: Public information
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Bier's monetizable record consists of two teenage social apps. tbh was acquired by Facebook in 2017, and Gas was acquired by Discord in 2023; both reached number one on the App Store but were later discontinued. The acquisition prices did not translate into sustained user assets but rather into personal credibility for knowing how to reach number one. He joined X as head of product in July 2025 and publicly provided product advice to Elon Musk; he stepped down from the front line on August 5, 2026, while remaining as an advisor, with the Intro pricing listed at the same time.
Money flows from the operational budget of venture capital into the expert market. $15,000 buys 30 minutes, without asking for equity, only for advice on how to launch and which distribution channels to use. The threshold is set at "funded," effectively allowing funds to filter first, as he only accepts founders who can afford it and have already been priced by others. His roles as a growth partner at Lightspeed and advisor to Solana allow him to sell the same hour to both invested companies and the public chain ecosystem.
Comparable to McKinsey selling partners by the hour, and Klarna founders or Silicon Valley operators doing office hours in clubs. The difference is that Intro publicly lists the price at $500 per minute and replaces invitations with "funded only." Hudson Leogrande's $20,000 per session indicates that the expert market is already auctioning time by individual names. Bier is in the monetization phase: his company role is removed, but methods are still sold by the minute.
Essentially, the pricing power has shifted. The price of product advice has moved from salaries and options to publicly priced minutes. The mechanism is two top rankings plus a term as platform product head, allowing buyers to pay with funding for distribution judgments; those without funding are excluded to ensure that the call counterpart already has a budget and distribution issues post-investment. Open-source skills breaking down the same set of steps for free indicate that the methods themselves are no longer scarce; what is scarce is his personal 30 minutes.
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