We knew we had to kick off the new year with something big - so welcome to Season 2 of Dev Interrupted!
This episode probes the murky depths of a time before the pandemic by exploring the story of LinearB's founding in 2018, how co-founders Dan Lines and Ori Keren met at Cloudlock in 2012 - and how they decided to co-found a company while 5,000 miles apart.
Listen as Dev Interrupted host and all-around renaissance man, Dan Lines, steps behind the mic to be interviewed not as host of the podcast, but as COO and co-founder of LinearB. Joining Dan is his good friend and fellow co-founder, Ori Keren, LinearB’s CEO.
With Producer Conor Bronsdon stepping in to guest host, Dan and Ori detail their transition from developers and VPs at Cloudlock, to deciding to found a company while on separate continents.
Episode Highlights Include:
- LinearB’s founding story
- Managing hypergrowth 5,000 miles apart
- The importance of choosing the right investors: alignment > money
- Designing a product with the goal of a million end users
- How to 10x your startup
- Dan’s favorite guest from season 1 of the Dev Interrupted Podcast
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Top comments (7)
Great job guest hosting Conor! It was really fun switching spots and being the guest - it felt relaxing!
Thanks Dan! Really enjoyed the conversation with you and Ori.
This was a great discussion and hearing how passionate Dan & Ori are is awesome!
I really enjoyed their discussion about not always taking the dollar value best offer on the table during funding rounds, and instead prioritizing business alignment over money.
Agreed - Jason Warner is coming on the podcast in a few weeks (ex-CTO of GitHub and current managing director at Redpoint Ventures) and I really want to get his perspective on this as a technical leader/angel investor/now VC.
Always nice to hear about LinearB, you can tell they're very passionate about what they do, great pod!
This makes me think one of the companies I worked for in the past stagnated because the founders worked too close together! Love these two.