Karri Saarinen
10 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 8, 2023 by Karri Saarinen · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Oct 8, 2023 negative
Product teams over-rely on data out of fear of making mistakes
“I think sometimes people use data a lot or too much because they, they're worrying or they're afraid that will I make the wrong choice? And like, I'm using data to like make the choice for me, but then like, you might still feel like this is not the right choi…”
Oct 8, 2023 positive
Linear raised angel capital primarily to create psychological accountability for founders
“The main reason we did it was that we just felt like it's in the early days, it's good to have like You feel like a real company in a way that like you have someone to answer for in a way, even though the investors don't really run your company or they don't h…”
Oct 8, 2023 positive
Oct 8, 2023 bullish
Oct 8, 2023 positive
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…”
Oct 8, 2023
Linear follows a guideline to never more than double its headcount annually
“In the, almost, like, the first year we didn't hire anyone. Then, like, the second year we hired, like, a couple people, and then the second year we hired more, a few more. We never more than doubled in a year, and that's kind of, like, been our, like, guideli…”
Oct 8, 2023 positive
Building features reveals product design requirements better than upfront polishing
“Whenever we build a new feature, one of the things is like, we don't want to spend tons of time upfront, just like designing it and polishing it perfectly. Cause we actually believe that when you start building the thing, you actually start realizing more, lik…”
Oct 8, 2023 positive
Oct 8, 2023
Releasing early-stage software in cohorts prevents redundant bug feedback from users
“We thought that, like, if you just invite everyone at once, or a lot of people at once, all of those people are going to probably hit the same problems in this kind of software that's very early stage. So like, I don't know, they hit the same bug or the same p…”
Oct 8, 2023 positive
Hiring people whose skills exceed their titles makes management significantly easier
“When you have these people that are, A little bit more than their title. It's like the company is, I think much more easier to manage because it's like people can like pick up things more easily, or they can like work together more easily because everyone has …”