Max Beauroyre

Brand matters to us, greatly. It's one of the four major reasons people get recommended PostHog so directly helps us grow. Everyone else is largely terrible at it so it's a massive opportunity to build a long term advantage as a company, and frankly it's fun.

What holds you back is rarely team size – it's the clarity of your focus, skill and ability to execute. Larger teams mean slower progress, more management overhead, more meetings, more opinions, and usually dilution of vision and standards. Yet growing the team has somehow become a symbol of success.

But to Mamdani’s credit, he at least talked about these probl

An alternative would be to steadily build an audience interested in your product and to ungate the waitlist in batches. Building an audience is increasingly achievable through social media along with owned channels like newsletters. Unlike PR, these channels are person-centric rather than brand-centric; they require personality and authenticity in... See more

I think the more likely outcome in B2B will be that point solutions – software products that do one thing – are more at risk from integrated platforms that can more easily bundle point solutions into their platform, making their whole offering more valuable as they do.

So, if the models are capable of all of this, what actually stops people from getting the most out of them?

1. Ambition: Not enough people ask the model to help them with real work. They ask it to help them with drafting email or coming up with funny songs.


2. Patience: How much context are you willing to provide it to help you? How does it compare to the

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Ie. you don’t say, “This is my job and that thing is outside my area”—no, if the value you are trying to promote requires you to go outside your role and learn new skills and politick to get the authority to go ahead: then that is your job.