Linear | News, Hiring, Layoffs, Competitors, CEO, Fundraising Insights

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Linear is a purpose-built tool designed for planning and building products, focusing on streamlining issues, projects, and roadmaps. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Linear aims to empower product teams with a combination of UI elegance and high performance. The company operates fully remote and has gained popularity among high-impact companies for its project management and issue tracking capabilities.

🛍️ Linear Product and Pricing News →

👔 Linear CEO, Management and Leadership Team →

⚔️ Linear Alternatives and Competitors →

💼 Linear Hiring and Layoffs →

🤖 Linear Developer, Integration and Automation News →

📈 Linear Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News →

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🛍️ Linear Product and Pricing News

• Linear has expanded its customer base to include the Healthcare industry.
• Linear now allows direct access to preview links from pull requests in Linear issues, supporting platforms like Vercel and Netlify, as of October 16.
• Linear introduced document subscriptions to keep users updated on changes to documents, project descriptions, and initiative descriptions.
• Linear launched a new iOS app that received a 5-star rating from Joakim Green.
• Linear has launched Linear Mobile, a fully native iOS and Android app designed for on-the-go workflows.

• Linear launched its Android app.
• Linear's new native app on Android is ~70% smaller in download size compared to iOS (~10 MB vs ~34 MB).
• Linear launched a new product that has been a game changer for months, now widely available.

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👔 Linear CEO, Management and Leadership Team

• Cristina Cordova

  
  Chief Operating Officer
  [email protected]

• Zoe (Bauer) Wellner

  
  Chief of Staff
  [email protected]

• Karri Saarinen

  
  Co-Founder, CEO
  [email protected]

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⚔️ Linear Alternatives and Competitors

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💼 Linear Hiring and Layoffs

• Cristina, an early Stripe employee, is now Linear's COO.
• Dominic Wong has joined Linear as Revenue and Business Operations in the United States, previously serving as Finance and Head of Revenue Operations at Census.
• Amelia Cellar has joined Linear as a Talent in the United States, previously holding a position at another company.
• Cristina Cordova, Chief Operating Officer at Linear, collaborated with First Round Capital and Jiaona Zhang to provide startup planning advice.
• Ema Milojkovic has joined Linear as a Software Engineer in the United States, previously working as a Full Stack Engineer at Tome.

• Jason Klym, an engineer and former founder, announced joining Linear on October 7.
• Linear's People/Talent team made new hires during their visit to Philadelphia this week.
• Linear operates with a founder-focused approach, avoiding traditional management structures and playbooks, as stated by CEO Karri Saarinen.

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🤖 Linear Developer, Integration and Automation News

• Linear's Sales & Success team closed a Fortune 20 customer and over 50% of the Forbes AI 50 companies, with average deal size doubling since earlier this year.
• Linear signed a $10B+ decacorn startup as a customer, reporting a 46.52% increase in daily tool usage.
• Slite chose Linear as their project management tool for its balance of functionality and simplicity after finding other tools like Trello and ClickUp either too limited or too complex.
• Matthew Ary announced on Twitter that his team switched to Linear for faster request completion and improved developer productivity.
• A solo founder at Lunch Pail Labs uses Linear to manage day-to-day tasks and projects effectively.

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📈 Linear Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News

• Cristina Cordova, COO of Linear, participated as an angel investor in Lorikeet's $5 million seed funding round.
• Linear achieved profitability in its second year and has maintained it since, according to CEO Karri Saarinen.

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