Linear如何构建产品

? Hey, I’m Lenny and welcome to a ? subscriber-only edition ? of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career.

? 嘿，我是Lenny，欢迎来到我的每周通讯的? 仅限订阅者版 ?。每周我都会解答读者关于产品建设、推动增长和加速职业发展的问题。

Linear is a story I’ve been wanting to tell for a long time. Not only are they the #1 most requested startup for me to include in this series, they’re also building the product that a growing number of teams are using to build their own product. And they are doing so in incredibly unique ways:

Linear是我想讲述已久的一个故事。他们不仅是我在这个系列中最受欢迎的创业公司（#1 most requested startup），而且他们正在以非常独特的方式构建产品，越来越多的团队正在使用他们的产品来构建自己的产品。

No product managers, just a head of product. PM duties are distributed across engineering and design.
没有产品经理，只有一个产品负责人。产品经理的职责分散在工程和设计领域。
No durable cross-functional teams. Teams assemble around a project and disperse once the project is done.
没有持久的跨职能团队。团队在项目周围组建，并在项目完成后解散。
No metrics-based goals. Just a North Star company-level metric goal.
没有基于指标的目标。只有一个公司级别的北极星指标目标。
No A/B tests. Decisions are based on taste and opinions.
没有A/B测试。决策基于品味和意见。
Job candidates go through a paid work trial. They join the team for 1-5 days and work on a real project with the team.
求职者需要进行有偿工作试用。他们加入团队1-5天，并与团队一起参与真实项目。
The team is completely remote. And always has been.
团队完全远程工作。一直以来都是如此。

Linear also has more cash in the bank than they’ve ever raised in VC funding, they’ve been profitable for 2+ years (before it was cool), and have spent a grand total of $35K on paid marketing in the history of the company. Only two people have ever left the company, and their CEO, Karri Saarinen, is a designer (who rarely gives interviews). For all of these reasons, I’m thrilled to share an in-depth look at how Linear builds product. If you’d like to learn more, check out Linear.app, find Karri on X, and they’re hiring!

Linear在银行里的现金比他们从风险投资中筹集到的资金还要多，他们已经盈利2年多了（在这之前是很酷的），而且在公司历史上只花了总共35K美元进行付费营销。只有两个人离开过公司，他们的首席执行官Karri Saarinen是一位设计师（很少接受采访）。出于所有这些原因，我很高兴能够深入了解Linear如何构建产品。如果你想了解更多，请访...