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Olivier Pomel

Co-Founder, CEO & Director, Datadog

Search every verified Olivier Pomel interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Olivier Pomel, co-founder and CEO of Datadog, discussed the company's growth and strategic focus during several public appearances in mid-2026. At the Guilds Summit, he described Datadog's experience navigating a COVID-fueled acceleration, a subsequent deceleration, and a reacceleration driven by AI, noting that the company had slowed hiring during the downturn and that rebuilding that growth took time. He stated that AI has most transformed Datadog's software engineering, describing a shift for its 3,000 engineers from mostly writing code to mostly not writing code. At the RAISE Summit, Pomel said the company's strategy is to add products in adjacent categories and solve the "whole problem end-to-end," moving beyond observation into automation. He also noted that customers across industries are adopting AI and seeing costs rise, but often lack understanding of their spending and outcomes. On Datadog's Q1 2026 earnings call, Pomel stated that digital transformation, cloud migration, and AI are long-term secular growth drivers for the business. He said the company is investing in deploying into more geographies and in its "bring your own cloud" products to run on customer infrastructure, seeing this as a potential growth lever. Pomel also noted that training workloads are becoming a market for Datadog, with hyperscalers using the platform to monitor their super intelligence labs. Regarding the impact of AI agents on the business, he said Datadog's usage-based model means it does not matter whether usage comes from humans or agents.

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