Karri Saarinen
10 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 5, 2025 by Karri Saarinen · across every show →
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Jun 5, 2025 positive
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Product quality suffers across tech because organizations incentivize speed over craftsmanship
“Why quality doesn't happen in most companies. It's like, it's just because it's not incentivized. No one ever says you should do it. It's almost that no, we just want you to complete this task. We don't actually care how do you complete it too much. We just wa…”
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Saarinen: Many product designers are too narrow-minded and ignore business context
“There's maybe that a lot of designers are too focused on their, like a little bit too narrow looking at things or narrow minded and not maybe interested enough, like what happens like around them or like around there or they're more just looking at the design …”
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Saarinen: Developer tools are uniquely viable to monetize due to high budgets
“Software companies and engineering tools are type of products that people are willing to pay for because the engineering functions are already highly paid and software companies have, especially VC funded software companies, they have a lot of money to spend.”
Jun 5, 2025
Linear models user needs internally rather than building direct feature requests
“It's never been, even in the beginning or later stages, it's never that like we Listen to these users and then we build what they want or what they say. We went there, like, it's more like we have that model in our heads. And then if something doesn't quite fi…”
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Jun 5, 2025 neutral
Saarinen: Engineers validate startup ideas faster than designers through working prototypes
“So there's a little more like clear, like quicker bath to some kind of validation, I would say, versus like designers, you might have this idea of something could be better. But so you design it, but you still just have designs. You don't actually have the pro…”
Jun 5, 2025 positive
Saarinen: Software should be structured for execution but flexible for leadership
“We could still be more opinionated on the lower levels where there's more of this volume and need for structure because there's more people and more things happening and the more flexibility you introduce, it multiplies a lot more. But once you get to the very…”
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Business schools teach middle management theory rather than practical entrepreneurship
“And then like later I realized that like business schools are not really about founding companies or entrepreneurship. They're more about the middle management or the kind of the theory of like, how do you run a company, but not actually the practical aspects …”