Doug Parker

talent @linear

[Doug Parker @dparker313]

Everyone at @linear is a builder at heart. When the team came together in Copenhagen this year, we set out to capture what it feels like to build together across 15 countries, 10 time zones, and one shared obsession with craft.

[Doug Parker @dparker313]

@pdotcv 👀

[Brendan Carney @brendanrc2]

Next batch of ambitious work at Linear is getting set, and I need a few more engineers. Looking for the best product engineers who've done at least 1:
- built and rebuilt an agent harness
- pulled realtime insights from massive amounts of data
- managed 50+ integrations

[Doug Parker @dparker313]

@jasdev Great shots!

[Doug Parker @dparker313]

@DemicLive @linear 👋🏼

[Doug Parker @dparker313]

@mdparekh_ @ciruyv @karrisaarinen 🙌

[Doug Parker @dparker313]

@NoubarTedjirian @karrisaarinen @linear Poutine was had

[Adam Hutchinson @adjohu]

@linear is by far the greatest team I've ever been a part of.

The hiring bar pays off.

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

Join our first conf in SF this Dec!

Orbit
by
Linear
for
Linear by Linear Orbit Inc.

[Cristina Cordova @cjc]

Linear's first-ever conference. One day. The future of building software.

Orbit lands in San Francisco on December 9 🪐

[Doug Parker @dparker313]

@staysaasy 👀

[Doug Parker @dparker313]

If any issue frustrates you at work*

[Brendan Carney @brendanrc2]

If product quality is an issue that frustrates you at work, here's the #1 way to make a difference: start fixing shit.

Don't try to fix the system, have long discussions about it, complain to your manager/peers. At least not yet. Just go. Fix 5+ things every week. Share with your team. Build momentum.

Action builds credibility, and you'll get surprisingly far on it alone.

Or just come work with me at Linear

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

Important for employees to ask some of these questions about equity before joining.

Sometimes founders just don’t have their own experience these things so they don’t prioritize the employee equity.

At Linear we tried to make it friendly as possible since the beginning:
early exercise, 10y exercise window, reminding people about their 83b election, pushing back on 409a valuations, keeping company valuation in check and increasing over time, informing people about qsbs, and now running employee liquidity programs for all past and current employees.

[Tuomas Artman @artman]

I don’t really care about these kinds of lists, but it is noteworthy that 90% of the listed companies are running on Linear!

[Doug Parker @dparker313]

@ciruyv @linear why hello 👋

[Cristina Cordova @cjc]

Earlier this year, Linear passed $100M in annual recurring revenue with over 40,000 paying customers, including OpenAI, Figma and Salesforce -- all while remaining cashflow positive.

Instead of raising cash we do not need, we completed a $99M tender offer at a $2.5B valuation. Startups are one of the few places where the people doing the work own a real piece of it. Sometimes that ownership turns into money that actually changes something (a down payment, years of freedom to go build the thing you've been thinking about). I've been on the receiving end of that. Getting to help run a company where other people can realize those outcomes is the part of this I care about most.

We still believe a small, focused team can accomplish far more than people expect. Maintaining quality as the product expands requires scaling thoughtfully. We currently have 30+ open roles. If you want to build what comes next with us, we're hiring.

[Charlie Aufmann @charlieaufmann]

@adjohu Edited: Working at Linear is great. There's just no bullshit.

[Doug Parker @dparker313]

@ScalaHanSolo But what if there are free snacks?

[Doug Parker @dparker313]

@traverspw LFG!

[Doug Parker @dparker313]

@lennysan Congrats, looks great! I spy some exceptionally cool companies on this list...

[Sean Callahan @ScalaHanSolo]

While I didn't work on this directly with Peter, I was around for a lot of the iterations.

It's crazy how in the day to day things like this just feel like "another day at the office", then you go read the blog post and realize... damn I work with some of the smartest people.

btw... We're Hiring