James Hawkins
9 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2025 by James Hawkins · across every show →
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Dec 10, 2025 negative
Dec 10, 2025
14 of 15 interested sales leads never clicked PostHog's early prototype
“I got about 15 sort of series B, C, D sales leaders queued up saying they wanted to use this. Well, they said they wanted to use it. We got the first version done in a couple of weeks, send them the link to create an account of the 15 14 of them didn't even cl…”
Dec 10, 2025 neutral
Friendly customers refusing to buy proves a product is just nice-to-have
“Because then kind of what happens when we started charging for all of these products, you would find that, oh, I'm not failing this because I don't have a relationship, or I'm like, I'm kind of friendly with this customer at this point, and they still don't wa…”
Dec 10, 2025
Selling a $50/month SaaS subscription takes as much effort as $100k deals
“Like in my previous job we used to sell, like, enterprise software for millions of dollars a year, and I can remember multiple times thinking I'm having to work kind of as hard to sell a, like, 50 dollar a month SaaS subscription, as I was to sell, like, a 100…”
Dec 10, 2025 positive
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PostHog pitched 160 seed investors versus 20 to 30 for later rounds
“I think the statistics are something like, I think we met a 160 different firms in the seed round. I think for like, if I added up the total number of people, number of firms I've met for the series A, B, C, D and E, Probably like 20 in total, like 30 in total…”
Dec 10, 2025 negative
Legacy analytics tools were built for product managers, not engineers
“We felt all the products were built for kind of product managers to force engineers to go implement, but it's like reasonably technical, especially my co-founder is a very technical co-founder was just getting annoyed at like, I can't, I want to write SQL.”