Karri Saarinen
Karri Saarinen is the co-founder and CEO of Linear, an issue-tracking tool that has quickly become the fastest-growing and most beloved in the world. Before Linear, Karri was the principal designer and co-creator of design systems at Airbnb and the founding designer at Coinbase.
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Discovery & Research Skills
High product quality is achieved by shipping early to internal users and select customers to iterate based on real usage before final polishing.
"We actually believe that when you start building the thing you actually start realizing more how it should work and how it should be better. A lot of times with the teams we tell them, "Just put it th..."
Team & Organization Skills
Eliminating dedicated product managers for individual teams increases ownership and attention to detail among the people actually building the product.
"We actually don't have much PMs in the company. We only have one and we can talk about more about it. One of the things I think that happens is when you build a team and you start creating these very..."