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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Linear comes up
Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 56:02 Anil Varanasi You talk about how to set up your tracking system on like, you know, Atlassian or linear or whatever.
Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped this AI-native IT platform | Jake Stauch (Serval)
- ▶ 1:18:55 Jake Stauch So startups that come in these, these new markets, they, they do it with simplicity, like what linear does to Jira, right?
Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 0:14 Brett Berson He's the CEO and co-founder of Linear, a platform for planning and building products that's become the tool of choice for companies like OpenAI, Ramp, and Brex. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:02 Brett Berson And then you put the rig down in Texas and now, you know, you're building something pretty special and linear. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:50 Brett Berson Do you think linear would be successful if you didn't work at Coinbase and Airbnb? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:42 Brett Berson What was the earliest moment that you thought about what then became linear? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:07 Karri Saarinen And that, that's more like what we try to do with Linear is that we want that your team is the, the productive unit and, and maybe there's some cost to, like, it doesn't support all kinds of crazy processes, but it tries to be, like, more… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:58 Brett Berson When was the exact moment that you said that you committed to going and building linear and how easy of a decision was it? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:42 Karri Saarinen So what we did is, like, I just went on the list and, like, picked, like, maybe, like, five or 10 names from that list, and then I emailed them, like, hey, here's your invite to Linear and, like, try it out. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:40 Karri Saarinen So I think one of the things about linear we had from the beginning is like the goal was to be the best in class tool for this particular purpose. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:45 Brett Berson What do you think the impact of being Finnish is on the company, if at all? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:45 Brett Berson And obviously you have someone like Brian Chesky, who's been immensely successful, but it has tended to under index when you look at people building great companies like linear.