So PostHog is a platform with a lot of tools for SaaS products (feature flags, analytics, events, etc.). Never heard of them but sounds interesting.

One of their employee benefits is: "We'll be your first investor and biggest cheerleader, if you spend two years at PostHog and leave to start a new company. We're looking for entrepreneurs and a strong bias for action!"

I wonder if someone who has done this can testify how that process went. I assume these were all cases with very strong personal connections, if any, because the company is just two years old so any such person must have been a very early employee and (hopefully) a friend of the founders.

EDIT: LinkedIn shows zero employees who are "Past company: PostHog" and are also current founders. That doesn't mean the gesture isn't neat, but it doesn't seem to be a deep component of their culture (yet!).

(I’m a cofounder there)

You are correct - haven’t actually done this yet since we’ve had no chance to so don’t take too much from this policy until we’ve done it a few times!

We set up hedgehog.vc which is what we’d use to fund ex employees if you’re curious.

Why don’t you do it a few times first before advertising it? It’s be quite sad if someone gave you two years of their life and then have you fall through on your end of the deal.

There are some pieces of missing context I guess. Primarily that we're small still (30 people) so we tend to hire a lot of ex founder / generalist type people (and most are technical) who'd be quite well suited as founders.

One thing I will do is add a more detailed handbook entry to create more clarity around this benefit so we don't mislead/confuse. Issue made (https://github.com/PostHog/posthog.com/issues/4013)!