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Fast growing startups are built on Linear

We launched Linear exactly one year ago to help high-performing teams who wanted a better way to build software. Linear is fast…

6 min readJun 29, 2021

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Fast growing startups are built on Linear

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Karri Saarinen
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Linear

Building at the early stage

Before we started Linear, Jori and I built another company that was part of Y Combinator’s Summer 2012 batch. There were a lot of lessons…

11 min readJan 22, 2021

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Building at the early stage

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Karri Saarinen
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Linear

Linear raises $13M in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital

At Linear our focus has been on empowering builders to focus on their work of creating software. In the past year, we have come a long way…

6 min readDec 8, 2020

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Linear raises $13M in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital

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Karri Saarinen
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Linear

Practices for Building — Linear is now open for all

At Linear, we believe software can feel magical. Well designed tools and practices encourage momentum and level up execution in our teams…

3 min readJun 30, 2020

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Practices for Building — Linear is now open for all

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Karri Saarinen
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Linear

Startups, Write Changelogs

Changelogs are not uncommon in software development, but often changelog are not used in early stage companies to engage with users and…

5 min readMay 18, 2020

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Startups, Write Changelogs

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Karri Saarinen
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Linear

Linear’s Next Chapter: Announcing our $4.2M Seed Round

Our mission is to streamline how teams build great software, starting from issue tracking.

4 min readNov 21, 2019

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Linear’s Next Chapter: Announcing our $4.2M Seed Round

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Karri Saarinen
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Linear

Announcing Linear

Introducing the more enjoyable and efficient way to manage software development with linear.app

2 min readApr 18, 2019

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Announcing Linear

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Karri Saarinen
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Airbnb Design

Working Type

How we introduced Airbnb Cereal to our UI

9 min readDec 18, 2018

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Working Type

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Karri Saarinen
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Airbnb Design

Building a Visual Language

Behind the scenes of our DLS

9 min readAug 6, 2016

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Building a Visual Language

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Karri Saarinen

Karri Saarinen

Cofounder, CEO Linear. Past: Principal Designer & co-creator design systems Airbnb. Founding design Coinbase . Cofounded Kippt, Rails Girls. YC Alumn

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