Cristina Cordova: joining Stripe as employee #27, investing at First Round Capital, to becoming COO at Linear next play

Cristina Cordova is the Chief Operating Officer at Linear, a purpose-built system for managing software development. She's also an investor and advisor to technology startups. Prior to Linear, she spent her career helping build technology companies from the earliest stages. She spent more than seven years at Stripe building its partnerships organization from the ground up and leading a business unit building new financial services products for early-stage companies. She also led platform, partnerships and self-serve growth at Notion and invested in early stage startups as a partner at First Round Capital. 

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