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Nikita Bier joined Discord when it acquired his startup, along with some phenomenal engineers, and he stayed for more than a year, reporting to Peter Sellis. You don't manage Nikita, you only seek to control him or direct him. He is awesome as an operator in the product space, pretty much one of one.
Picture the daughter kidnapped: a very special set of skills is the whole plan. Now picture the job of raising her, or buying some groceries. All he knows how to do is kill everybody in the grocery store.
Booking a one-on-one with him was its own adventure. Even though he reported up, he could not be reached, so the threat went out that if the DMs stayed unanswered, his boss would go on Intro and book him for a one-on-one right now. Luckily it never came to that. It took messages on four different messaging apps before he answered.
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