Linear CEO Karri Saarinen on designer-founders, quality obsession and the agentic age
soleio · x · 2026-11-08
- soleio releases the First of Kind S3 E03 podcast interview with Linear CEO Karri Saarinen, exploring whether a designer-founder can win the VC game by ignoring its rules and betting everything on uncompromising quality — and whether that playbook survives the agentic age.
- Topics include quality as directional, designing in code, going beyond the issue tracker, why he never builds MVPs, whether UI still matters, and a live debate on instrumenting software vs. flying by the window.
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