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  "markdown": "Co-founder and co-CEO.\n\nJames Hawkins is co-founder and co-CEO of PostHog, a product analytics and data platform from Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch, which launched on Hacker News in 2020 four weeks after the team began writing code. His YC profile lists earlier roles at Arachnys and AML RightSource and studies at the University of Cambridge.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-hawkins/\n- X: https://x.com/james406\n\n## What James builds\n\n- [PostHog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/posthog.md), graded B, 68.4/100, in Product analytics \u0026 experimentation. PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform with session replay, feature flags, experiments, error tracking and a data warehouse. Agents reach PostHog Cloud through a REST API with a public OpenAPI spec and an official hosted MCP server. Co-founder and co-CEO, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Tim Glaser](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/tim-glaser/), Co-founder and co-CEO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [GV](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/gv/)\n- [Jason Warner (CTO, GitHub)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jason-warner-cto-github/)\n- [Solomon Hykes (Founder, Docker)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/solomon-hykes-founder-docker/)\n- [Stripe](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/stripe/)\n- [Formus Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/formus-capital/)\n- [Peak XV Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/peak-xv-partners/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is James Hawkins?\n\nJames Hawkins is co-founder and co-CEO of PostHog, a product analytics and data platform from Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch, which launched on Hacker News in 2020 four weeks after the team began writing code. His YC profile lists earlier roles at Arachnys and AML RightSource and studies at the University of Cambridge.\n\n### What does PostHog Inc. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists PostHog from PostHog Inc.. PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform with session replay, feature flags, experiments, error tracking and a data warehouse. Agents reach PostHog Cloud through a REST API with a public OpenAPI spec and an official hosted MCP server.\n\n### Who has invested in PostHog Inc.?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator, GV, Jason Warner (CTO, GitHub), Solomon Hykes (Founder, Docker), Stripe, Formus Capital and Peak XV Partners.\n\n### How are James's tools graded?\n\nPostHog is graded B, 68.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://posthog.com/about\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/posthog\n- https://x.com/james406\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/400222-tim-glaser\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/timgl\n- https://posthog.com/\n- https://posthog.com/docs/support-options\n- https://posthog.com/handbook/support/support-team\n- https://posthog.com/docs/support\n- https://posthog.com/talk-to-a-human\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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