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Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town Sep 10, 2026 · 1 mention

Town vs Instinct vs GrokBot | Why the AI Assistant Market Is Not a Bubble Sep 7, 2026 · 1 mention

How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It Sep 5, 2026 · 3 mentions

NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation Sep 3, 2026 · 18 mentions

  • ▶ 54:32 Harry Stebbings There's Linear, which hit a hundred million, growing a hundred percent, doing a tender at two and a half billion.
  • ▶ 1:06:13 Harry Stebbings As I said, Linear announces a hundred million air are growing a hundred percent, doing a tender. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:10:35 Rory O'Driscoll So, and you know, we're going to, we also mentioned Linear, which is doing really nicely, doubling at a hundred. 15 times in the scene

Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive Aug 29, 2026 · 4 mentions

Enterprises Fear Frontier Models | Sam Altman Offers Trump 5% of OpenAI | DeepSeek Builds Own Chips · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 9, 2026 · 3 mentions

Aaron Levie: Everyone is Wrong; We'll Have More Developers in 5 Years · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:47 Aaron Levie And you know, I, you look at what linear is doing and it's, it's fantastic and it's awesome to watch.

ElevenLabs: Building an AI Sales Machine & Why We Set a 20x Sales Quota · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 11, 2026 · 1 mention

Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 16, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 58:07 Harry Stebbings My fun one could have been, which you're an Alpean, and I'm very grateful to you for supporting me when I was 1819, um, but it could have been at one point the Hopin Fund, it could have been the Clubhouse Fund, um, and it turns out that it… 2 times in the scene

"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 9, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings Myles helps lead Excel's growth investing practice, where he's buying some of the best in the business, including Atlassian, Linear, Cursor, and many more.
  • ▶ 44:43 Harry Stebbings And given the liquidity so inherent within secondary markets, like we're seeing with even as early as your linears where you're doing tenders for them, clay has tenders and then stripes on bigger scales has
  • ▶ 1:00:20 Miles Clements There was one where I was going through some personal things and happened to be able to compete for and ultimately win the opportunity to work with linear. 3 times in the scene

Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jan 22, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:05 Harry Stebbings If I am a founder of Linear, or RevenueCat, or any of this generation of companies, maybe five to 10 years old in that broad range, and I'm at 50 to seventy-five million of revenue, and I'm not an AI first company particularly, and maybe…

Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:06:04 Harry Stebbings My challenge here is that I've done the portfolio reviews, and when I look back on, like, fun one where there's, like, a meaningful timeline to actually look back on the six years now, the best performers, your linears of the world, were…

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 Aug 29, 2025 · 3 mentions

Cognition CEO Scott Wu on Acquiring Windsurf: The Process, The Deal, The Rationale · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 18, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 25:26 Scott Wu Um, and it's, and so it's been fun to see that, you know, it's like, I think, I think the pattern for, for what it's worth is it's really like real engineering teams that bring on Devon and they, they tag Devon all the time in Slack, they… 2 times in the scene

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 Jun 20, 2025 · 2 mentions

20VC Exclusive: Mercury Founder Launches First $26M Fund with Immad Akhund · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 12, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 37:30 unnamed speaker If I look at like my firm one, I've got like linear,

Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:56 Harry Stebbings I instantly think of linear, actually the product PM tool, um, amazing, amazing tool, but I always hear that with that.

Karri Saarinen: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth | E1221 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Oct 30, 2024 · 34 mentions

  • ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Now, I was chatting to, uh, Miles at Excel beforehand, and he said, you've just got to start with context, and so I didn't want to do like the, oh, how did you come to found linear? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:08 Karri Saarinen So with, with linear, we, uh,
  • ▶ 14:26 Harry Stebbings Like, have higher cax, the retention's great, people love linear as a product, just pay more and get more people faster. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:33 Karri Saarinen Like one is that it is useful to mark up the company every now and then, like we were, we raised serious B maybe almost two, three years after the serious A. 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 40:42 Harry Stebbings In the linear journey, what did you not do that with the benefit of hindsight you wish you'd done?
  • ▶ 42:19 Harry Stebbings What thing of quality do you do today at Linear that you will not be able to do at scale? 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 46:20 Harry Stebbings Would you sell the company today for three billion dollars? 6 times in the scene

Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Aug 14, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:29 Harry Stebbings I really, I really couldn't get over it when you said about, uh, internal building of tools and how you said, like, hey, we built everything in compliance, HR, payroll, uh, you know, you don't have linear or JIRA, you have everything built…

Jiaona Zhang: Why All Product Teams Should Have a Scorecard & How to Use It | E1154 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 17, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:29 Jiaona Zhang I think like once you get to everything, you're like, we might as well just use like linear or a tracker, right?

Adam Gross: Why Startups Doing Paid Under $100M ARR are not PLG | E1145 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 26, 2024 · 2 mentions

Vickie Peng: Why the Best Product People Actually Build Less Product? | E1141 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 17, 2024 · 7 mentions

Jean-Michel Lemieux: Three Product Decisions Every Team Needs to Make | E1129 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 20, 2024 · 1 mention

Lauryn Isford: Product Growth Secrets from Facebook, Airtable, BlueBottle, Dropbox & Notion | E1037 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Jul 19, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 25:44 Lauryn Isford I also think linear's onboarding is very good. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 27:55 Lauryn Isford Um, we're thinking about experimenting with a more visual approach, and we saw that linear did this really well, and we'd love to learn from them.

Adam Besnivick: How to Invest in Pre-Seed & Seed Stage Companies; Looking Glass Capital | E1020 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 29, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 33:05 Harry Stebbings Uh, be real, precede, 60 K check, linear, hundred K check, remote, 50 K check, some of my, like, on paper, definitely, best investments.

20 Sales: How To Build Sales Teams with a Product-Led-Growth GTM, What is a Sales Hiring Scorecard and How To Construct Yours & How To Structure the Onboarding Process for all New Sales Hires with Dannie Herzberg, Partner @ Sequoia Capital Feb 2, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:58 Dannie Herzberg For you when you join us here at, insert name of the company, Linear, Loom, Figma, whatever.

20VC: Biggest Lessons From Opendoor's Scaling Journey, How To Implement Systems for Growth & The Right Way To Structure Customer Discovery Processes with Julia DeWahl, Angel Investor Jul 3, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:15 Harry Stebbings Now, Julia is one of the rising stars of the Silicon Valley angel investor community, with a portfolio including the likes of Linear, Sequoia-backed, Modern Fertility, backed by USV, and Primer, backed by Founders Fund.

20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How 1-1 Customer Onboarding Can Scale Efficiently to $100M ARR, Why Gamification Does Not Work But Game Design Does & What Game Design Means For The Next Generation Of Product Managers Apr 24, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:15 Rahul Vohra In just the Y Combinator batch, I saw five different companies that had incorporated this into their product, and we have companies like Linear that have just recently raised from Sequoia that have done the same.

20VC: Notion's Fundraise with Index: The Most Anticipated Deal in The Valley: How It Came To Be | The Future of Remote Work |How Notion Approach The Balance of Growth and Profitability Apr 17, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:59 Sarah Cannon And I think there are a number of others pitch air table, quill figma linear in that bucket.

20VC: Lessons from 150 Angel Investments into the likes of Carta, Gusto, Airtable and Superhuman, Creating Algorithms and Models For Investing At Seed & Why Younger Investors Have An Advantage When It Comes To Finding Deals Early with Jude Gomila, Angel I Feb 11, 2020 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings Jude is also a prolific angel, having invested in over a 150 companies, including Carter, Airtable, Superhuman, Gusto, Linear, and many more incredible companies.
  • ▶ 45:32 Jude Gomila Sure, I think this was Linear App. 3 times in the scene
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