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we do some outbound now (#12881)
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- **Here for the long haul.** We have zero intention of selling our business. We want to see just how crazy huge this gigantic software stack can get - and we think that it will reach at least $100bn in value. We'll be around and fighting for a long, long time. It's our life's work.
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- **Honest communication.** Even in <Link to="/posts" state={{ newWindow: true}}>our content</Link>, it's more honest and not like the marketing-speak you've come to expect from other companies. It actively helps developers build successful products. That's our mission.
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The reason we uniquely love doing all these sorts of things is that **we grow because of our reputation on the internet,** whereas every single competitor grows by salespeople. We are very, very proudly inbound only. This aligns us with customers. Long term, that is what wins.
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The reason we uniquely love doing all these sorts of things is that **we grow because of our reputation on the internet,** whereas every single competitor grows by salespeople. This aligns us with customers. Long term, that is what wins.
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### Transparency >>
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Most of our competitors are inefficient. They employ huge [outbound sales teams](/founders/negotiate-software-better) to grow revenue. Their salaries and commissions for closing deals are passed onto their customers through higher prices.
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In contrast, we're 100% inbound, we [grow mostly through word of mouth](/handbook/how-we-get-users), and we charge based on actual usage.
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In contrast, we [grow mostly through word of mouth](/handbook/how-we-get-users), and we charge based on actual usage.
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We don't believe in loss-leaders, so we make a modest positive margin on each event sold, but what we charge is directly connected to what it costs us, not what we think we can get away with charging.
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[^3]: Pricing to value means charging the maximum you think you can get away with based on the value customers derive from your product. This only makes sense if you’re in a non-competitive market, have a strong moat (unlikely if you’re a startup), and you’re comfortable with competitors undercutting you. At PostHog, we deliberately avoid this because we’re product-led and we want as little friction as possible. In fact, we actively work towards cutting prices – we’ve cut prices for analytics and session replay recently – and give customers the option to set billing limits to avoid surprise bills.
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[^4]: This was the setup in the early days. Now, PostHog is entirely inbound – i.e. we do no outbound sales – and we’ve since built a [sales and customer success team](/teams/sales-cs). Our golden rule is the person who closes a deal also manages that relationship long term, rather than handing them off to a dedicated customer success team.
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[^4]: This was the setup in the early days. We’ve since built a [sales and customer success team](/teams/sales-cs). Our golden rule is the person who closes a deal also manages that relationship long term, rather than handing them off to a dedicated customer success team.
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showTitle: true
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Our primary focus is on making our paying customers successful, not forcing sales through. Today, we follow a 100% inbound sales model - our approach to [product-led growth](/handbook/strategy/overview) means that we do not do cold outbound yet, though we'll probably run some experiments here later in 2025 as we scale.
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Our primary focus is on making our paying customers successful, not forcing sales through. This mostly means an inbound sales model, but we are also running some outbound sales experiments.
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While this means working with a smaller number of users than typical B2B SaaS companies, we know that the people we talk to are mostly already pre-qualified and genuinely interested in potentially using PostHog.
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## How we do sales is based on the best experience for our Ideal Customer Profile
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I cannot think of any harder group than developers to convince, via a cold-call or email, to buy software. We should focus all our energy on inbound – that's why we don't do outbound sales.
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I cannot think of any harder group than developers to convince, via a cold-call or email, to buy software. We should focus on inbound.
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All the other rules here are based on what we felt would be the best experience for an engineering customer, whilst allowing us to grow revenue in the long run.
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