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Karri Saarinen, Jori Lallo & Tuomas Artman
Linear: Building the Issue Tracker Developers Actually Love Using
Three friends from Airbnb, Uber, and Coinbase spent a year validating their idea before quitting their jobs to build Linear - now valued at $1.25B.
$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
SaaSDeveloper Tools🇺🇸 US
Jake Cooper
Railway: Making Cloud Deployment Simple After Getting Laid Off from Uber
After Uber sold Jump to Lime and laid off his team, Jake Cooper built Railway to solve the infrastructure headaches he kept running into with every project.
$100K ARR in 2 years·Solo
SaaSDeveloper Tools🇺🇸 US
David Hsu
Retool: Pivoting from Fintech to $3.2B Internal Tools Platform
With 60 days of runway left, David Hsu pivoted from a UK Venmo competitor to Retool - and had a $1.5M pilot signed by Y Combinator Demo Day.
$100K ARR in 1 year·Team
SaaSDeveloper Tools🇺🇸 US
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