At a recent company offsite a bunch of people asked me how many of the off-sites I'd been on. I didn't remember so I made this list since if I don't remember now I have no chance of remembering in 5 or 10 years.
2021
| Place | Type | Note | Hackathon |
|---|---|---|---|
| london | my onboarding | Jams said "just do the right thing" which was a good signal this company was cool | |
| working in Milan | working, not a company trip | i just had to go to Italy for my soul after covid |
2022
| Place | Type | Note | Hackathon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | all engineering offsite | got hard feedback, realised I had to up my game | |
| Iceland | all company offsite | my first posthog hackathon, realised just how talented everyone was | writing session replay ingestion to s3. it was a bad implementation. |
| Cambridge | onboarding | the one where i felt i could talk about posthog well | |
| Montesilvano | working, not a company trip | I just needed time alone | |
| Rome | small team offsite | this was the turning point for me being successful and feeling at home at PostHog. I got amazing, direct, constructive feedback. life-changing, no cap | in-app notifications on top of the activity log |
| Cambridge | onboarding | the one where we got locked in one of the Cambridge colleges after maybe breaking in | |
| Lisbon | work-blast | the one where Ben and I wanted to prove network logging was quick to build - it was. Kaarl told me my schema design was good, I was so in awe of his clickhouse brain i thought i'd faint | network request logging in replay |
2023
| Place | Type | Note | Hackathon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aruba | all company offsite | the one where we celebrated turning into a juggernaut | bug reporting tool in PostHog |
| cambridge | onboarding | the one where i made pizza with bread flour, no bueno | |
| peak district | onboarding | the one where i couldn't travel and so the team braved Glossop, i made some pretty good pizza | |
| bologna | small team offsite | the one where posthog 3000 was born, we presented each other's ideas. It was silly, laughed so much | Sampling for session replay |
2024
| Place | Type | Note | Hackathon |
|---|---|---|---|
| trapani | work blast | Ben and I wanted to prove Heatmaps was quick to ship, it was | Heatmaps |
| vienna | onboarding | the best beetroot i've had to date, my favourite part of italy | |
| cambridge | onboarding | manoel did amazing bbq steak | |
| valencia | small team offsite | the one where i realised i could push people more | AI summarisation of survey responses |
2025
| Place | Type | Note | Hackathon |
|---|---|---|---|
| cambridge | onboarding | very cold, we saw a fox, Ben improv'd the architecture diagram | |
| budapest | onboarding | great coffee, so many irish bars | |
| mexico | all company offsite 2025 | the one where i realised just how much we'd grown | CSP violation reporting… that has started to make bank now |
| munich | onboarding | my first ever visit to germany, how?! | |
| palermo | small team offsite | the one where we experimented with combining small team offsites (and it changed things a lot) | letting people add screenshots to action and event definitions |
| london | xmas hackathon and onboarding | the one where Tue got very excited about a smash burger | tooling to make session replay support easier |
2026
| Place | Type | Note | Hackathon |
|---|---|---|---|
| lisbon | analytics platform small team offsite | the one where we figured out how to make a query performance team | adding AI summary to insight subscriptions |
| barbados | all company offsite | my first all team offsite as an exec. lots of great feedback and pina coladas | creating an AI user researcher |
It turns out I've been away from home for roughly 26 weeks in the time I've been at PostHog. Or roughly 10% of the weeks I've worked here. Wouldn't change it for the world.