Karri Saarinen

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Co-founder and CEO of Linear — the issue tracker built for high-performance software teams. Former design lead at Airbnb and Coinbase. Co-founded Linear in 2019 with Jori Lallo and Tuomas Artman. Used by OpenAI, Ramp, Vercel and thousands of teams.

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Issue tracker built for high-performance engineering teams. Used by OpenAI and Vercel.

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