Linear | News, Hiring, Layoffs, Competitors, CEO, Fundraising Insights
Linear is a purpose-built tool designed for planning and building products, focusing on streamlining issues, projects, and roadmaps....
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.
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Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Size
51-200 employees
Industry
Software Development
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ποΈ Linear Product and Pricing News
- Linear's community workspace now supports direct video uploads for the Discord Account Support Corporation's video project.
- Linear has introduced new features such as 'Insights', 'Customer Requests', 'Linear Asks', and 'Mobile' to enhance its product offerings.
- Linear has added 'Customer Requests' and 'Insights' as new features to their offerings.
- Linear has introduced new features including 'Customer Requests' and 'Linear Asks' to enhance issue tracking and sprint planning.
- Linear has added new features including Insights, Customer Requests, Linear Asks, and Mobile, while also introducing a Contact Us section and removing the Slack connection.
- Linear added a deletePermanently option to issueDelete mutation, allowing workspace admins to permanently delete issues and skip the 30-day recovery period.
- Linear now supports creating AI agents in Slack that can handle tasks when mentioned.
- Linear is preparing to launch new features, shifting project updates from progress tracking to launch preparations, according to CEO Karri Saarinen.
π Linear CEO, Management and Leadership Team
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Co-Founder, CEO[email protected]
βοΈ Linear Alternatives and Competitors
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- Azure DevOps |
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πΌ Linear Hiring and Layoffs
- Linear's Chief Product Officer, Nanyu, stated that the company intentionally grew their core product team to over 50% of the staff.
- Linear is hiring a Product Support Specialist for their Customer Experience team in Eastern or Central North America, as announced by Alexandra Lapinsky Wilson, Product Operations Lead.
- Jesse Hartheimer has joined Linear as a Customer Team member in the United States, previously serving as Chief of Staff to the CSO at Xometry.
- Sebastian Bogner has left Linear as a Software Engineer in Denmark to join Beyond Work as a Software Engineer.
- Gino Fordiani has joined Linear as a Customer Team member in the United States, previously serving as an Account Executive II, Upmarket at Jellyfish.
- Dylan P. Hamilton has joined Linear as an Account Executive in the United States, previously serving as a Founding Account Executive at RevenueCat.
- Yann-Edern Gillet, a Software Designer at Linear, reflects on his first year at the company, highlighting the focus-driven culture and collaborative dialogue with engineers that enhance design excellence.
- Tyler Hitchcock has joined Linear as an Account Executive in the United States, previously serving as a Sr. Account Executive at Ionic: An OutSystems Company.
π€ Linear Developer, Integration and Automation News
- Linear now supports Scale's high velocity in AI development, replacing Vercel as a featured customer.
- Linear now supports Scale's high velocity in AI development, replacing Vercel as a highlighted customer.
- Linear has achieved a 4.5x increase in active users, a 2x increase in reported issues, and 2x faster issue closing times, with companies like Scale AI, Brex, LUSH, and Monzo switching to their platform.
- Linear reports a 4.5x increase in active users and 2x faster issue closing times as companies like Scale AI, Brex, LUSH, and Monzo switch to their platform.
- Linear has been adopted by Scale AI to manage product workflows, with widespread use across the company after a successful pilot.
- Linear has added Equals Technologies, Inc. for data analysis and Amazon Web Services, Inc. for email delivery to its list of authorized sub-processors.
- Linear is now used by over 10,000 companies, including Fortune 20 firms, with notable clients like Scale AI, Brex, LUSH, and Monzo.
- Pleo switched to Linear Asks for managing internal request workflows, saving $30K annually and benefiting from seamless Slack integration.
π Linear Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News
- Linear, led by CEO Karri Saarinen, is valued at $400 million and has raised $52 million from investors like Accel and Sequoia, focusing on a design-centric approach to create a beloved issue-tracking tool without incorporating AI-specific features.
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