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Karri Saarinen
Karri Saarinen, co-founder and CEO of Linear. From Finland, living in California.
Software / engineering practiceEngineering management / careersAI / ML
- Posts
- 46 from 12 Feb 2010 to 23 Oct 2026
- Posting
- monthly (16 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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2026 13
- This website is written and built with Linear
- You could do it alone
- Room for ambition
- Someone behind the software
- Brand is who you are
- Tools Are Getting Better. Are We?
- Sharing Linear’s growth with the people building it
- Code Intelligence for Linear Agent
- Some Notes on AI
- Output isn’t design
- Every feature should earn its place
- Against “Against Taste”
- The disappearing middle of software work
2025 10
- Design is more than code
- Part 2: Design is a search for the opinions
- Design is a search
- Designing remote work at Linear
- Self-driving SaaS: When software runs itself
- Giving our team liquidity through Linear’s first tender offer
- Building our way: Announcing our Series C
- Why is quality so rare?
- Design for the AI age
- The profitable startup