Linear co-founder and CEO @karrisaarinen built a profitable $1.25B company by bucking the “growth at all costs” mindset. He focuses on craft, not metrics. He slow-baked the idea by running user research with coworkers while still at his day job. He’s hired slowly as Linear as grown (just <80 people at Series C). On The Review, he details the company’s slow and deliberate path to product-market fit, taking us through the founding team’s thoughtful approach to idea validation and designing the early product. Read the full story below.