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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★Google Material Design Award for Airbnb mobile apps (2016)
★Ruby Hero award (2013)
Notable Facts
→CEO and Co-founder of Linear, valued at $1.25B with $82M raised
→Former Principal Designer at Airbnb and Head of Design at Coinbase
→Linear serves 15,000+ customers including OpenAI, Scale AI, and Perplexity
→66% of Forbes top 50 AI companies use Linear
→Company has been profitable since inception with negative lifetime burn rate
→Has 74K Twitter followers and strong design/tech thought leadership
→Y Combinator alum from previous startup Kippt
→Originally from Finland, graduated from University of Vaasa
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