Lenny & Friends Summit·Sep 29, 2026
Context is now the product: Product leadership when software can build itself
AI can help teams ship more software, but are they learning enough to make better products? At the Lenny and Friends Summit, Linear’s Karri Saarinen argues that great products depend on the understanding teams build through customer conversations, shared critiques, and hands-on work. He shares how Linear uses AI customer briefings, weekly quality reviews, and candid feature feedback to strengthen the judgment of the whole team.
YouTube·Aug 12, 2026
Protecting the Thinking Behind Great Design, Inside Linear's Design Team
A case study on how AI changes the way designers work at Linear. Why we see design as a search, not a production pipeline, how designers use agents to surface customer feedback, and more.
YouTube·May 13, 2026
The New Standard: a talk with Linear, Raycast, and Anthropic
For a generation, the rule was clear: ideas are cheap, execution is hard. AI is rewriting that equation. When a designer can ship without an engineer and a small team can build what once took a department, the bottleneck moves upstream to judgment, taste, and the quality of the idea itself. We brought together product leaders from Raycast, Linear, and Anthropic for an open, honest conversation about how product teams actually operate today — and how the tools being built by these companies are shaping how teams will operate next.
Startup Grind·May 05, 2026
AI Agents and the Future of Software Teams with Linear + Sequoia Capital
In this fireside chat, Karri Saarinen (CEO and co-founder, Linear) joins Stephanie Zhan (Partner, Sequoia Capital) to explore how AI agents are reshaping the way modern software teams work. Drawing from Linear’s rapid growth and hands-on adoption of AI to supercharge engineering and product workflows, they’ll discuss what genuinely changes when agents become part of the team—how roles evolve, where judgment still matters most, and why focus, craft, and discipline remain essential even as tools get more powerful.
Grit Podcast·Apr 20, 2026
How Karri Saarinen Redefined Product Design
In a market that hadn’t changed in decades, Linear didn’t win by being faster. They won by being more thoughtful. Karri Saarinen helped shape design at Airbnb and Coinbase before building Linear around small teams and high standards. On Grit, he shares how Linear is building for a new era of software development.
Every·Apr 03, 2026
How to Design for Human-agent Interaction
Unreliable AI products are a design problem. Here’s how Linear solves it.Why promotions can quietly kill great engineersWhy the CEO of a $1 Billion Startup Rejects Silicon Valley’s Hustle CultureHow Linear GrowsCraft and quality through speed and scale (and agents)Brand design tips from Karri SaarinenBuilding the platform for agent coordinationLinear raises $82M at $1.25B valuationInside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product buildingConfig 2025: Crafting quality that enduresKarri Saarinen’s 10 rules for crafting products that stand outHow we build productsMove fast with little process20VC: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS GrowthAt home with Karri SaarinenTuomas Artman: Sustainability over hypergrowth