Skip to content →Karri Saarinen·Aug 27, 2025Giving our team liquidity through Linear’s first tender offer
As part of our Series C, we completed a tender offer that gave current and former teammates the opportunity to sell a portion of their vested options at a $1.25B valuation, the same price offered to our investors.Sagan Schultz·Mar 04, 2025Building what customers need, not just what they ask for
Steve Jobs famously said customers don't know what they want until you show it to them. Henry Ford quipped that people would have asked for faster horses, not automobiles.Karri Saarinen·Feb 21, 2025The profitable startup
For years, startups have been taught to prioritize growth over everything else. Profitability was seen as unambitious or even wrong. Why focus on profits when money was easy to come by?Tuomas Artman·Feb 28, 2024Rethinking the startup MVP: Building a competitive product
Today's Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is often about building a better version of an idea, not validating a novel one. It’s not good enough to be first with an idea. You have to out-execute from day 1. 
