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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…”
Linear operates with only one product manager across the entire company
“The other thing I would say that what we like to do is we actually don't have much BMS in the company. We only have one”
Linear has been profitable for two years with net-negative lifetime burn
“We've been profitable the last two years and we also have this thing where we actually have this net negative lifetime burn rate which means that, like, we just have more Cash in the bank today than we have raised.”
Coinbase Exchange Was Built by a Single Engineer in Six Months
“There was like, for example, Coinbase exchange, which is the trading platform they have that initially was built by one guy. Like he was in a room and then he was building it for maybe six months, but he was built by one guy. And then when it went live, it, It…”
Saarinen: Airbnb and Coinbase had no sales teams during his tenure
“Airbnb and Coinbase, they weren't very like go to market driven companies. They're not sales cult. Like you didn't have sales people in the company”
Nearly every private beta company converted to Linear's paid subscription plan
“And then a year later in June, we launched it publicly. And back then maybe we already had like, I don't know, several hundreds of companies using it. And then we also launched the pricing and I think like almost all of them, maybe one company didn't subscribe…”
Most AI companies are currently using Linear for product management
“For us, it's often like there can be sometimes like, for example, now we have most of the AI companies are like, are using us.”
Saarinen: Linear's purple website design was widely copied across tech
“The second one was the kind of famous purple website that was like replicated a lot across the companies.”
Saarinen: Linear waitlist reached 10,000 emails with 10% converting
“I would say like on the waitlist, I remember that eventually we had about like 10,000 emails on it. I would say about like 10% of them converted during that year.”
Saarinen: Linear had over 1,000 DAUs at public launch
“When we launched, we had over, I think, over a thousand, thousand, like, daily actives.”
Only a Handful of Employees Have Left Linear in Five Years
“There's only a few people we had to let go. There's only a few people who have left the company in this, like, five years.”
Thousands of companies, including Block and Ramp, use Linear
“Today some of the top growth companies, like, Block, Vercel, Ramp, Retool, Mercury, and Substack are building with Linear. We also additionally have lots of other companies, like thousands of other companies using, using Linear.”
Linear co-created its roadmap feature directly with Vercel
“We worked this way with Vercel that there was some changes they wanted to see in the roadmap feature. So we worked with them to like, improve it then, and then they could like, give us feedback along the way.”