Karri Saarinen
12 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 30, 2024 by Karri Saarinen · said 14 times in 7 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2026 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- "Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
- 20Product: Why Most CPOs are Bad | Why You Do Not Need PMs in a World of AI | Why the Design Stage is Dead and How to Use Vibe Coding to Replace It | The Three Roles All Founders End Up Firing on Repeat with Jason James @ Tezi
- 20Product: How Duolingo Build Product 10x Faster with AI | Duolingo's Biggest Lessons on Paywalls, Push Notifications and In-App Purchases | Why Small Teams are the Future of Product | Why PMs Will Become Extinct with Cem Kansu, CPO @ Duolingo
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Karri Saarinen, oldest first
Oct 30, 2024
Saarinen: Distinguish between upstream and downstream roles when setting hiring standards
“I like to think there's more like upstream roles and downstream roles, like how much Those people might be affecting, like if they're more upstream, they affect everything downstream. So obviously like leaders or some like, for example, product people that are…”
Oct 30, 2024 negative
Oct 30, 2024 positive
Oct 30, 2024
Saarinen: A CEO can never master the role as companies constantly change
“It comes down to the CEO role that I feel like you can be insecure all the time because it never, that role is never the same. You can never be, I think that you can never be the best at it. The company is always changing. The team's changing. The, I don't kno…”
Oct 30, 2024 neutral
Oct 30, 2024
Saarinen: Founders must do roles themselves rather than rush early hires
“If it's your first 10 people, or even, like, first 15, 20 people, It's much more important in the early stages. Every role you hire, it affects the, it impacts the culture a lot. It potentially sets the standard for the whole function. So if you hire your firs…”
Oct 30, 2024
Saarinen Gives Prospective VCs Google Doc Homework to Evaluate Their Thinking
“I make a, Separate Google doc for each investor and say like, Hey, here's a memo. And here's a cool week at the end of the memo. There's some questions for you that I would like you to think about, and then they should write them down and then we should talk a…”
Oct 30, 2024 negative
Oct 30, 2024 negative
Saarinen Says Linear Would Default to Rejecting a $3 Billion Acquisition
“So I think the answer today would be by default would be no, but if there would be some reason that we could see that, oh, this is really exciting and we could actually do this thing better or something with some other organization, it could be like interestin…”
Oct 30, 2024 negative
Oct 30, 2024
Oct 30, 2024 negative
Saarinen criticizes VCs who rely on generic playbooks and benchmarking
“What I don't like is, is overly benchmarking or following like playbooks from other companies. I feel that's, it's almost like it's templating the business. Like you are Not really thinking about our unique challenges. You are applying this template from somew…”