@adelbucetta That’s part of what I love about it. Speaks to more use cases than you’d think.
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Cristina Cordova
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Cristina Cordova
@cjc
COO at @linear. previously building at @stripe, @NotionHQ & @firstround. angel investor to ~80 early-stage startups
San Francisco, CA Katılım Mart 2009
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@cjc personally i think that's not even the best part. code intelligence makes it clear what assumptions are baked into your architecture and whether they're still valid.
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We just launched Code Intelligence for Linear Agent. It reads your codebase to answer questions about how your product actually works.
It's one of my favorite tools for anyone to better understand how the product works. Personally, instead of waiting for an engineer to answer a question about how something works, I can just ask Linear Agent, "Can a user upgrade to enterprise self-serve?"
The agent understands the code and gives me the answer in plain English. It replaces the typical "can someone look into this?" workflow with a direct, grounded answer from the source of truth.
Karri Saarinen@karrisaarinen
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Signing on an investor to work on product is like a sick prank coordinated by rival founders
TBPN@tbpn
BREAKING: @carrawu is joining Parallel Web Systems as product lead
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In October, Cars24 was preparing for an IPO and renewed their multi-year Jira contract. A few weeks later, they treated the entire thing as a sunk cost and walked away.
Since switching to Linear, they’ve seen a shift in the physics of their project timelines. Things that used to take months now take weeks; weeks turn into days. The companies that accelerate first pull ahead. More on their story here: linear.app/customers/cars…
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Hey @linear @karrisaarinen @thenanyu the logo and wordmark inside this cards looks really off in your brand guidelines web page.
Something for quality Wednesday maybe 😅
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You never defined what a nice neighborhood is — you only said it wasn’t West Portal or some of these other neighborhoods. Regardless, I found neighborhoods that are nice by many measures and had homes for sale that meet these requirements, also some sold in the last 9 months. If you want to debate what “nice” is, then it’s ultimately subjective and probably not going to end any debate.
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@cjc @clairevo @julianweisser Central Richmond isn't a nice neighborhood per the earlier definition. Also the median home in central richmond selling for $3m says nothing about the floor price for a 2500 sq ft 4br home.
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This makes me sick and want to move my kids out of SF.
Not because it’s too expensive. But because tech striver culture is so warped, I worry it’s unhealthy for them to be around.
By any objective measure this is not “broke,” not even in SF (ELEVEN MILLION PRE TAX!!!! 3M house! Chunky nest egg! An email job that lets you pay for private school AND a f/t nanny!) This is not a “996 and camping” lifestyle. This is a “we’re taking the kids to Japan for 2 weeks with the au pair” lifestyle.
It’s not the expense that keeps people trapped, it’s the mindset.
There will always be someone with more. The only way you can be truly poor is being unable to see your blessings for what they are and let someone else decide what is and isn’t “enough.”
Shruti Gandhi / Array VC preseed rounds@atShruti
They will still be SF brokie - 50% in taxes (37% federal / 13% state) $3-4m cash on a home in SF Likely needs renovation $250k- $1m Leaves you with $1-2m Many with kids or on the way Nanny -$100k/yr Day care / School - $45k/year/1 kid Camps/Extra curricular - $30-100k Tesla - $50k They will still be at the office 996 to not really enjoy any of this and and will only have money to hike and camp.
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@jamiequint @clairevo @julianweisser You said you couldn’t find a home under $5M in a nice neighborhood and then attaching a chart that proves you wrong. 😑
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@jamiequint @clairevo @julianweisser Noe Valley is one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the entire city. There are plenty of other nice neighborhoods that haven’t had a similar price per square foot increases in the last year as Noe and Pac Heights.
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@cjc @clairevo @julianweisser FWIW anytime before ~6 months ago you're probably right, but given this nonsense, not anymore.
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Rohin Dhar@rohindhar
On a per sqft basis tells a similar story
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And let’s not iterate on your original question. If your ask is now to find a home in a “premier” neighborhood, then you’re asking a completely different question. There are plenty of safe, walkable neighborhoods near nice corridors of shopping and eateries in SF. You don’t move to LA and get upset with the fact that you can’t find a cheap home in Beverly Hills.
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When a 10M exit feels like “being broke”, the bubble has officially burst your perspective. These are luxury signals, not survival costs of living in SF. True success is knowing when you have enough and actually taking the time to enjoy the luck you’ve been given.
Shruti Gandhi / Array VC preseed rounds@atShruti
They will still be SF brokie - 50% in taxes (37% federal / 13% state) $3-4m cash on a home in SF Likely needs renovation $250k- $1m Leaves you with $1-2m Many with kids or on the way Nanny -$100k/yr Day care / School - $45k/year/1 kid Camps/Extra curricular - $30-100k Tesla - $50k They will still be at the office 996 to not really enjoy any of this and and will only have money to hike and camp.
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@yuris @cartoon_magoo @gdb @lachygroom Stripe has only produced the founders of OpenAI ($852B), Anthropic ($380B), Physical Intelligence ($11B) Commure ($6B), Render ($1.5B)... and many more with non-public valuations.
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seems notable that there is almost zero stripe mafia. company is 16 years old, approx $150b, juggernaut talent magnet for the 2010s, and yet almost no companies came out of it. why?
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@jamiequint @clairevo these sold in the last 9 months, all $2.9M or less
zillow.com/homedetails/20…
zillow.com/homedetails/14…
zillow.com/homedetails/19…
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@clairevo You cannot buy a ~2800+ SFH in a nice neighborhood in SF for <$5m.
Living in a nice but not egregious home and sending your kid to a nice but not egregious private school is upper middle class not rich.
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@scottbuscemi @jrfarr Looks like an email from when we were all doing support rotations 😆
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Details matter.
We spent an unreasonable amount of time on the Stripe Card for Treasury.
>Weight
>Texture
>Finish
The sound it makes when it hits the desk. How the logo catches light. How it feels pulling it out of your wallet.
I have stacks on my desk of old versions that almost made it.
The final card is metal, minimal, heavy in the right way, and quietly feels very like Stripe.
Small things, but I care deeply about stuff like this.
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@bigshipper99 @linear Actually, I sell the kanban boards. I don’t build them.
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This is exactly why I joined @linear.
What attracted me most was the refusal to run the standard hyper-growth playbook. While the industry was hiring like crazy in 2021, we chose controlled growth. While others outsourced support, we kept it in-house because the quality of the experience mattered more.
I didn’t want to just repeat what I'd done at previous companies. These constraints felt like a challenge and they are exactly why I enjoy being here.
Karri Saarinen@karrisaarinen
Some more context on this: We had seen what hyper-hiring does to companies and wanted to avoid it at @linear. Our rule was simple: at most, roughly double the team each year. 3 → 6 → 15 → 30 → 50 → 80 → 120 to maintain culture and stability. What followed was that we became profitable early, growth keeps accelerating, revenue per employee keeps rising, and attrition has stayed very low. I’ve come to think headcount has little connection with success, and sometimes the opposite. Some hiring is necessary, but some of it is just superficial. Smaller teams force focus. They give you more time to invest in quality, execution, and the experience you’re building. A common boardroom question is “how do we go faster?” and offten the answer is “hire more.” It is rarely “focus on fewer, more impactful things.” Later, companies might end up learning that lesson anyway, now they realize have too many teams and too much organizational weight to do that. That being said and jokes aside, we are continuing hiring more.
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