David Pearce
speaker
14,416 appearances
53 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 18 Sep
David Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 53 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 20.
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I have a lot to tell you about here in the long round.
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But we should start with um the end of a burgeoning segment here on the VergeCast.
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I know it it really I think we only got through two Nikita Beer is going through it moments here on the VergeCast.
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Uh Nikita Beer, who has been for a while the product chief at X, posted that he is leaving X.
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Uh he wrote that, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state, a poster.
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This is all I would say not terribly surprising.
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Nikita Beer has spent the last several months posting on X about how
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how unpleasant it is to be running product at X.
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He's been publicly running a series of experiments, all of which have come to the same conclusion, which is that X is bad and so has everyone on it.
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And if if we take literally like if you put all of his studies together, it says that if we take all of the people and posts off of X, everyone likes it better.
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If we take
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This is this is the state of X as a platform.
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Um so he's leaving.
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Uh he's he's out.
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They shipped a bunch of new products.
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He's been there for like a little over a year.
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Um it's got a real like defense against the dark arts professor vibe.
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Like there there will be millions of people who try to do this job and none of them will do it successfully.
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But I just want to say
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You know, Nikita, goodbye.
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