Episode

Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus | Karri Saarinen (co-founder, designer, CEO)

Karri Saarinen, co-founder and CEO of Linear, discusses how they've built their issue tracking tool with an emphasis on craft, quality, and opinionated design over traditional metrics-driven product development. He shares their unique approach of having minimal product management (just one PM), no A/B testing, extensive focus on user experience, and building through customer empathy rather than data optimization.