Kayvon Beykpour

Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour

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Opening

Kayvon Beykpour (00:00:00): The first time I ever met Elon was over FaceTime. He was just like, "Do you want to just come hang out? You can swipe left or swipe right." Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:05): You're known for at Twitter someone that turned the culture of the product team and Twitter in general from a very stagnant, nothing-is-changing product to shipping all the time....

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Low-ego framing

Kayvon Beykpour (00:00:15): We wanted to change the lack of ambition, the lack of creativity, the lack of customers feeling that the product had...

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Accept praise cleanly

you. I think this is going to be quite a unique and interesting podcast. A big thank you to Scott Belsky, illustrious former podcast guest for introducing us. When he introduced us, the one thing that he...

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Low-ego framing

" And I was like, "Oh, shit. I guess that whole conversation was on the record. I don't know." Kayvon Beykpour (00:07:31): So, it was a very surreal experience for a bunch of reasons, including just being...

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Accept praise cleanly

01:34:55): Exactly. Lenny Rachitsky (01:34:56): Amazing. All right, Kayvon, thank you so much for being here. Kayvon Beykpour (01:34:59): Thanks Lenny. Great to meet you. Lenny Rachitsky...

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Ending

Lenny Rachitsky (01:34:15): Kayvon, you're amazing. This was so freaking fascinating. There's so many nuggets here. Can't wait for folks to hear this. Lenny Rachitsky (01:34:20): Two final questions. Where can folks find you if they want to reach out and learn more and maybe follow up on anything if there's things you want to follow up on potentially? And then, how can listeners be useful to you? Kayvon Beykpour (01:34:30): People can find me on Twitter/X/whatever we're calling it these days....

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