Radu Raicea

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DISC Type : c

Team Lead at PostHog

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Overview

Radu leads the LLM Analytics team at PostHog and is the Co-Founder of Aiva IQ. A computational scientist with a background in high-performance computing from the Technical University of Munich, he is described by colleagues as brilliant, professional, and hard-working. His experience includes building software for major companies like Shopify.

He is passionate about applying technology to solve practical, real-world problems. This extends to his personal life, where he once started a project to build an Alexa app that suggests recipes based on ingredients available at home, aiming to reduce his spending on restaurants.

Unique fact: Radu has experience writing and running simulation code on supercomputers.

Personality Overview

Not Easily Convinced

Cautious & Analytical

Value Seeker

While they don't hesitate to ask questions, they are generally risk-averse and tend to be late adopters.  It is quite likely of them to ask for pricing or other concessions. They prefer to do thorough analysis of any situation.

Topics They Care About

LLM Analytics
He leads the team building open-source observability tools to help companies understand and debug their language model applications.
AI Automation
As the Co-Founder and CTO of Aiva IQ, he develops AI voice assistants designed to automate support and streamline operations for businesses.
Open-Source Ethos
He is a strong advocate for open-source development and radical transparency, citing them as key reasons for joining PostHog.

Media Appearances

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Work History

9-2025
Team Lead at PostHog
7-2025 - 9-2025
Señor Product Engineer at PostHog
9-2024
Co-Founder at Aiva IQ
5-2022 - 9-2024
Senior Software Engineer at Bolt
1-2021 - 6-2021
Researcher at Technical University of Munich

Education

MSc from Technical University of Munich
Bachelor of Engineering - B.Eng. from Concordia University

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Insights For Selling To Radu

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Keep some extra margin in hand as they will likely negotiate the pricing
  • If you have a lower priced product compared to the competition, call out the same
  • Tell them that you will come back if you don’t have a good answer for a question

DONT's

  • Avoid phrases like ‘do not worry about’, ‘no one compares to’ etc.
  • Don’t overhype the product/pitch, keep it measured
  • Don’t depend too much on anecdotal evidence, it reduces their confidence

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Radu is

  • Ensuring that the product delivers ROI, cost-effective pricing and process compliance are very important for them.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Radu

  • It doesn’t come naturally to them but they can say no if they are not convinced.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Radu move?

  • If they have the information that they need, they can move fast at making their decisions.
  • Can Radu take some risk or not?

  • They can take some risk if they are confident that they have analyzed the circumstances well.


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