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Linear — Series A The issue tracker that doesn't slow you down.
The deck Karri Saarinen wrote when Linear was eight people. The argument: issue tracking had become an afterthought, and the next great software companies would be built by teams who treat their tools as a craft.
Slide breakdown — 9 slides 01 COVER Linear ↓ Software for software teams.
02 PROBLEM Jira was built for process compliance, not for doing great work. ↓
03 INSIGHT Tools shape culture. Bad tools create bad habits. ↓
04 PRODUCT 50ms. Keyboard-first. Opinionated by default. ↓
05 TRACTION 2,000 teams. NPS of 70. Growing purely word-of-mouth. ↓
06 MARKET 27M software developers globally. $10B in dev tooling spend. ↓
07 BUSINESS MODEL Free for up to 250 issues. $8/member/month above that. ↓
08 TEAM Ex-Coinbase and Airbnb engineers who built this for themselves. ↓
09 THE ASK $13M to become the standard for software teams. ↓