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Linear

🌎 linear.app

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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Linear - Latest News and Updates

• Linear introduced initiative updates on February 13, 2025, allowing strategic product work tracking and integration with Slack for enhanced visibility.
• Linear has launched a feature that allows users to subscribe to initiative updates, which are delivered to their Linear inbox or specific Slack channels, as announced by Co-Founder and CEO Karri Saarinen.
• Linear introduced a feature to summarize work across multiple projects and update progress on important product initiatives.
• Karri Saarinen, CEO of Linear, will be speaking at Config 2025 in San Francisco on May 6-8 and in London on May 14.
• Linear is hiring for a finance role to support their profitable team of 70 with 140%+ Net Revenue Retention, serving clients like OpenAI and Retool.

• Karri Saarinen, CEO of Linear, emphasized the importance of genuine passion in producing great work by reposting a video featuring Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke.

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