James Hawkins
co-founder and co-CEO · PostHog
James Hawkins is co-founder and co-CEO of PostHog—a dev tools company turning $10M+ ARR without any managers, meetings, or micromanagement.
Episode
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Their segments in this episode (13)
- ambition ego and being okay with being wrong
- duplication ownership and not owning as a feature
- egoless permissionless building
- leanne and al unpack the approach
- radical transparency why posthog s handbook is public
- recruitment how posthog hires at scale
- small teams over big bureaucracy
- team leads vs managers and why leads aren t paid more
- the communication hierarchy and pull requests
- the type of person posthog is for
- when freedom means people leave to start companies
- who is james hawkins and intro to posthog
- why small teams win on engineering velocity