S8 E14: Dan Lines, LinearB

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Tech News, News, Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Dan Lines is married, with a 3 year old daughter and a baby on the way. He has lived all over the US - 7 years in Boston, 5 years in LA, and he now lives in Upstate New York. He has always been into the creation of things, being the kid in high school burning and selling CD's, building computers on the side, or creating an early sports streaming platform, before streaming was a thing. Before Dan founded his current company with his co-founder Ori, he was an engineering leader, with 100 engineers reporting to him. During that journey, he catalogued all of the pains he felt as a VP of Engineering. Post acquisition of his prior company, he decided to build a system to solve those pains. This is the creation story of LinearB. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	We've gone through a few different, let's call it go-to-market motions, PLG motions, you know, who can come in and use the product for free.
0:10.0	And one of the things that we tried really, really, really early on in the company was having a free tool of linear B, let's say that was for engineering managers.
0:20.6	And they would come in and they get their
0:22.5	metrics. And we actually were able to get, you know, thousands of teams using that free tool.
0:28.5	But as we learned, there's kind of a cap to that go-to-market motion. And what we learned is that
0:34.2	actually what we need to do is provide this free tool for developers.
0:39.9	I'm Dan Lyons and I'm the co-founder and COO at Linear B.
0:46.5	This is Code Story.
0:49.4	A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	Six months moonlighting.
0:53.7	There's nothing on the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.3	Just took many goes to get right.
1:02.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.0	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure was a pain.
1:12.8	Yes, we've been fighting it as we grew.
1:14.6	Total waste of time.
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