Linear CEO Karri Saarinen on winning the VC game with a quality-first designer playbook
soleio · x · 2026-11-08
The First of Kind podcast releases an interview with Linear cofounder Karri Saarinen exploring whether a designer-founder can win in the VC world by ignoring its rules. Topics include: quality is directional, designing directly in code, thinking beyond the issue tracker, whether UI still matters in the agentic age, why he never builds MVPs, and how Linear recalibrates design taste. Host soleio opens with a flower-arranging anecdote before Karri shares Linear's practical approach to evaluating designers.
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