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Opinionated software

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Lenny’s Podcast118 min

Inside Linear: Building with taste, craft, and focus

Karri Saarinen · Oct 8, 2023
Key learnings
  • Ship features early to a small set of users or internal teammates and polish only at general release, rather than perfecting…
  • Co-create early features with one or a few large customers to clarify how complex workflows should actually work.
  • Give project teams ownership of their features; craft often emerges when engineers and designers discover better interaction…
Lenny’s Podcast68 min

Category creation and brand building

Barbra Gago · Oct 27, 2022
Key learnings
  • Create a new category only when the scope is big enough to matter and you can see signals like emerging budget lines or buyer…
  • Abandon category creation quickly if customers keep calling you by the existing category name, as Greenhouse learned with…
  • A category is only real once competitors and analysts validate it, so welcome new entrants who adopt your category label as proof…