213. Datadog Founder Olivier Pomel
Summary
Olivier Pommier, co-founder and CEO of Datadog, discusses his journey from a French open-source contributor to leading a $40 billion observability company. He details how the dev-ops friction at their previous startup inspired Datadog’s creation and explains their strategy of staying independent despite acquisition offers to reach a 2019 IPO. Pommier shares lessons on efficient scaling, the importance of month-to-month contracts for product-market fit, and why New York’s real-world customer density remains a unique advantage over Silicon Valley.
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