Linear COO on Rebuilding the Product Dev Lifecycle for Teams and Agents | Cristina Cordova | E299
In this episode of The Product Podcast by Product School, Carlos González de Villaumbrosia sits down with Cristina Cordova, Chief Operating Officer at Linear, the product development system built for teams and agents. Linear raised $82 million in a Series C round in June 2025 at a $1.25 billion valuation. The company has been profitable since 2021, and serves over 20,000 paid business customers, from seed-stage startups to Fortune 100 enterprises, with a team of just 140 people. Before Linear, Cristina joined Stripe as one of its first employees, and led Platform and Partnerships at Notion.What you'll learn:
- Why keeping headcount intentionally lean is a strategic advantage
- Replacing traditional interviews with paid two to five-day projects
- Why PMs are the fastest-growing power users of agentic tools
Key takeaways:
- A small team is not a small business. Revenue, customers, and growth rate matter more than headcount.
- If you fully delegate your AI thinking, you lose your native understanding of how these products actually work
- Agentic workflows are now the default, not a feature. The companies that treat them that way will pull ahead.
00:00 🎙️ Introduction
00:03:00 🧑💼 Cristina's Background: Stripe, Notion, and Linear
00:05:30 💡 Building for Builders: Selling to Product Teams
00:06:00 📊 Running 25,000 Customers with 140 People
00:10:00 🔍 The Work Trial Hiring Model
00:14:00 🤖 How Executives Keep Up with AI
00:17:00 ⚡ Doing AI Work Yourself: The Codex Experiment
00:23:00 🎯 Brand Evolution and Enterprise Messaging
00:28:00 🏢 Enterprise Migration Strategy
00:35:00 🔄 "For Teams and Agents": Linear's New Positioning
00:40:00 🏗️ Triage Intelligence and Agentic APIs
00:48:00 🌐 Where Linear Plays in the Agent Ecosystem
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