Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders

Since Elon Musk took over Twitter and rebranded it as X, the platform has added new features, implemented a few major UX modifications and made some controversial changes to its algorithm. So what can founders interested in product design learn from all this? In the first episode of our new series The Breakdown, YC’s Tom Blomfield (co-founder of Monzo) and David Lieb (creator of Google Photos) take a closer look at X to find out what lessons there are for founders who want to build the next great consumer product.
Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Coming Up
01:22 - Twitter vs X
06:12 - Why were these changes made?
09:25 - Learnings
11:12 - When is Twitter helpful?
14:58 - Why did the name change?
18:20 - Rebranding
22:27 - Outro