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▶ 0:53 · $POSTHOG · Why Ambitious Startup Ideas Are Actually Easier To Sell
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Y Combinator

Why Ambitious Startup Ideas Are Actually Easier To Sell

2026-07-22 · 2 company · 7 thematic
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james

Co-founder and co-CEO of PostHog (YC W20), which pivoted from open-source product analytics to an AI-native self-driving software platform. Previously struggled with product intuition, learned to out-execute competitors, and now builds AI agents that autonomously ship code fixes.

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“Postto now provides self-driving software. It's our new kind of oneliner. Um, we started off by, as you say, we're open- source product analytics was what we launched during the batch. Obviously, there's been a platform shift with AI comin…”
—james
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