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....


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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.

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Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Size
51-200 employees
Industry
Software Development

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🛍️ Linear Product and Pricing News

  • Linear has rebuilt its Zapier integration for improved speed and reliability, offering instant triggers and new actions.
  • Linear has introduced a new team issues page with customizable views and a rebuilt Zapier integration offering instant triggers and new actions for improved automation.
  • Linear has added SteelSync to its official integrations directory, enabling automated feature request and bug report management.
  • 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.

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⚔️ Linear Alternatives and Competitors

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  • Stepsize

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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.
  • Linear is currently hiring a Building Constructor as a Client Advisor in Denmark.
  • Melissa Mier has joined Linear as an Account Executive in the United States, previously serving as a Founding Account Executive at WorkOS.
  • 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 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.
  • CashApp (Block) uses Linear to manage aggressive roadmaps and improve coordination across its platform team, benefiting from its speed, low maintenance, and integrations with GitHub and Slack.
  • 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.

📈 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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