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Company handbook

👋 Welcome!

This handbook simply explains how we work. It is one of the most important things we've ever made.

Chapters

  1. Why does PostHog exist?1
  2. How we got here2
  3. How we get users3
  4. Who we are building for4
  5. How we make users happy5
  6. How we make money6
  7. Enduringly low prices7
  8. Deciding which products to build8
  9. A wide company with small teams9
  10. How we're building a world-class team10
  11. What we value11
  12. Providing a world-class engineering environment12
  13. Not running out of money13
  14. Where we are now14
  15. Where are we going?15
  16. How you can help16
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