• Working with friends


• Small core team (<10 people)


• Remote-first


• Asynchronous communication


• Very few meetings


• No managers or PMs


• Transparent decision-making


• Profit-sharing among the team


• Annual liquidity windows for equity


• No institutional investors


• No required work hours; everyone is responsible for their own tasks


• Focus on creating high-quality produc

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How @Linear builds product: 1. No product managers, just a head of product. PM duties are distributed across engineering and design. 2. No durable cross-functional teams. Teams assemble around a project and disperse once the project is done. 3. No metrics-based goals. Just a… Show more