4.4 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Karri Saarinen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Linear. The company has raised from some of the best in the business including Sequoia and Accel. Before founding Linear, Karri was the principal designer at Airbnb and the founding designer at Coinbase.
10 Lessons with One of Silicon Valley’s Most In-Demand Founders:
How to Become a Master Fundraiser:
Why does Karri believe it is BS advice that founders should “always be raising”?
What is Karri’s biggest advice to founders on minimising dilution?
What do most founders think they know about fundraising but do not?
What is the best way to put your VCs to work? How can you give them homework to do?
What has been the single best VC meeting Karri has had?
What has been the worst VC meeting?
Product and Growth:
What does Karri mean when he says “founder must focus on quality growth over hypergrowth?”
How does Karri advise founders on how soon to release and monetise their first product? Wait for platform ready or ship more feature products and monetise?
What have been the single biggest product lessons for Karri from Airbnb and Coinbase?
What are the most commons ways that growth plateaus? What breaks first?
Karri AMA:
Brian Armstrong or Brian Chesky; who would you invest in first?
Would you sell Linear today for $3BN in cash?
What do you know now that you wish you had known when you started?
What did you believe that you now no longer believe?
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | I've never been happy with a 20% dilution. |
0:02.1 | I would rather see it at like 10% or less than that. |
0:05.4 | The only real protection you can have as a startup founder in your business is to be successful. |
0:11.4 | If you're not successful, there's a lot of ways investors can exert their control. |
0:16.5 | This is 20VC with me, Harry Stebbings. |
0:19.0 | Now, the show state is a special one. |
0:20.7 | In a world of |
0:21.3 | fake growth, bullshit fundraisers and hype, Carrie Sauran has built the most incredible, |
0:27.2 | sustainable and most importantly capital efficient business in linear, where he prioritises |
0:32.2 | long-term, profitable growth, rather than falling for the raise big, spend spend big mentality that we've seen so much of. |
0:39.0 | Of all the companies I'm an investor in, I would say I get two times the number of intro requests for |
0:44.2 | Linear and Carrie, then all others combined. |
0:47.6 | That's insane actually. |
0:49.1 | Carry is a star and this was such a joy to do today. |
0:51.8 | But before we dive into the show today, how do you get your users to do what you want them to do? |
0:56.4 | Well, that's where Pendo comes in. Pendo is the only all-in-one product experience platform for any type of application. |
1:03.0 | Honestly, Pendo's differentiation is in its platform. Every capability from analytics to in-app, guidance, to session replay, mobile feedback management, |
1:12.4 | and roadmapping are all-purpose built to work together. |
1:15.5 | But don't take my word for it. |
1:16.7 | 10,000 companies use Pendo, and Pendo also does mine the product, |
1:21.3 | the world's largest community of product management professionals. |
1:24.3 | So check out their amazing free product today on Pendo.io, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Twenty Minute VC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Twenty Minute VC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.