James Hawkins
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James Hawkins is a co-founder and Co-CEO of PostHog, an open-source product and data toolkit for software teams. He helped launch the company as part of Y Combinator's W20 batch, taking it from an MVP posted on Hacker News in 2020 to a platform used by over 190,000 teams. He shares the Co-CEO role with Tim Glaser. Hawkins is associated with PostHog's approach of running the company profitably without layoffs, offering generous free tiers, and avoiding common SaaS pricing and sales tactics.
Updated 7 August 2026
Public sources: posthog.com
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