Karri Saarinen — Co-Founder, CEO at Linear
Co-Founder, CEO at Linear
Karri Saarinen ranks #208 of 14,983 LinkedIn creators in Founder-Led Sales, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 60.0K followers and published 15 posts in the last 30 days at a 0.9% average engagement rate.
- 60.0K followers
- 15 posts / 30d
- 0.9% avg engagement
- 3.2K follower growth / 30d
The roast
Karri built a project management tool so minimalist he’s convinced 56,000 people to follow him just to watch him post screenshots of buttons. It’s an impressive career arc: from designing interfaces at Coinbase to spending his life begging tech bros to appreciate a slightly different shade of grey.
About Karri
Karri Saarinen is the co-founder and CEO of Linear, purpose-built tool planning and building products and which now powers some of the best next-gen startups to established enterprises. Karri is a Finnish designer and before Linear he was the principal designer at Airbnb and the founding designer at Coinbase.
Highlights
- Big Audience — 59,992 followers · top 1%
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #77 of 5205 creators
- High Impact — 549 avg engagements per post · top 5%
- Consistent Creator — 15 posts in 30d · top 10%
Recent posts
Team Docs beta for Linear. One of our most requested features In this video, I continue the journey and show how we use Linear, Figma, and Slack to build these features + how Team Docs & Home works. If you want to try it, reply with your workspace name
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Normally I wouldn’t share something from a competitor, but this one felt especially interesting. As contrast, since day one, Linear has been proud to serve teams across Silicon Valley and beyond, from companies like OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp to ambitious startups and scaled companies in fintech, healthcare, hospitality, retail, insurance, and many other industries. Even companies like Boom Aero building supersonic jets. We have companies switching to Linear every week now and speed this is happen accelerating. We’ll keep focusing on helping the Silicon Valley frontier and other ambitious
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Linear is one of the only remote first and one of the smallest company on this list.
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