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enra

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About enra

linear co-founder & ceo

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47836276

    Vercel is a Linear customer, that's why Linear was mentioned here. Linear has not been breached, customer data remains secure, and Linear is not hosted on Vercel.

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    Comment #46776030

    Consumer software can be good, but it's often also optimized for max engagement, not for the actual value or functionality. Enterprise software can be because there isn't an incent…

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    Comment #44090789

    Ozempic & Novo Nordisk contributes something like 2% of the economic growth.

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    Comment #43133471

    I tried to ask examples of this yesterday[1], but afaik the patterns seems to be think throwing money at the problems works in undifferentiated, maybe transactional categories like…

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    Comment #43133381

    "Venture debt is like a delicious sandwich that only costs ten cents, but occasionally explodes in your face" - PG Part of being a startup is still that there is not a lot of histo…

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    Comment #43133017

    Correct. Those raises were made when there was some uncertainty about how the business would grow, and the opportunity and timing seemed right. For example, in 2022, it was difficu…

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    Comment #43132897

    Karri from Linear here. I wrote this to challenge the common dichotomy that startups are either VC-backed money-burning machines or anti-VC/profitably bootstrapped. It doesn’t have…

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    Comment #43059587

    You wouldn’t but many of the largest users of these frameworks are actually e-commerce sites, not applications.

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    Comment #42857464

    I still prefer shorter flight time. I rather spend those hours in hotel bed or eating at restaurant than sit/lie in the airline seat.

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    Comment #42249882

    Soviets attacked Finland, and brought it in to the war. Finland didn't want to become a part of Soviet Union (btw no-one did willingly) and Axis was fighting against Soviet Union. …

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    Comment #41607575

    Pouring one out. I remember using Pivotal Tracker back when working in a Ruby on Rails shop and enjoying directness and how optioned it was of it. Then several years later, after w…

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    Comment #41607524

    Linear founder here. We look at AI as capability similar to any other technology. Instead of jumping on the AI bandwagon or thinking AI is a feature, we look if there is opportunit…

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    Comment #41607481

    Linear founder here. We aim to build the product in a way that it works well for smaller/early stage teams as well as all the way to the enterprise. So I think lot of the “enterpri…

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    Comment #41607461

    I’m glad to hear! :)

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    Comment #40382787

    As long as I been around startups, about 15 years, the advice always have been had more success getting warm intro. Even more back in the day than now. I think PGs essays lays out …

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    Comment #40309744

    [flagged]

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    Comment #40309642

    We have companies moving to Linear daily, so it’s possible. And these can be anything from a 10 person company to 2000+ person companies. We have jira sync that helps with transiti…

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    Comment #40309200

    Hard to believe that ending up with exact copy is not intentional.

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    Comment #40308797

    Great on work creating an alternative to Linear which is a carbon copy of Linear [1]. Linear also been powered by local first sync since 2019, we have AI features shipped and in th…

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    Comment #40084074

    Finland’s largest land border by far is with Russia which is not generally viewed as that of a friendly neighbor. The border between Finland and Russia is 1,340 kilometers (832 mil…

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    Comment #39824706

    It is fairly lucrative business, $2b last year from serving the lower end of creative tools market. They are also about to ipo so this acquisition probably gives the an additinal g…

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    Comment #39728989

    To me it was having just one powerful upgradable desktop computer with Windows and MacOS. So I don't have to have devices on my desk. Now I have solved with PC desktop, MacBook Air…

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    Comment #39709965

    It's is but that's the issue. The term is misused and misunderstood. Meaning variety of things and activities. How the definition has emphasis on building something quickly and che…

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    Comment #39709161

    > As the minimum viable product approaches the complexity of a complete product, the difference between the two shrinks to the point that the concept of MVP isn't all that useful a…