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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, has been active in 2026 discussing the company's growth and the impact of AI on its business. At the RAISE Summit in Paris, he reported that Datadog's revenue is between $4 and $5 billion, growing at about 30 percent. He has spoken about the company's strategy of expanding its product platform, moving beyond observability into automation. Pomel has also discussed the transformative effect of AI on software engineering, stating that the company has "3,000 engineers that we need to convert from, you know, mostly writing code to mostly not writing code." Pomel has reflected on the challenges of scaling the company, including a period of hiring slowdowns that he said created long lead times for re-accelerating growth. He has also discussed the company's approach to AI adoption, noting that customers are seeing costs rise and are seeking to understand the value of their AI investments. He has emphasized the importance of focusing on customer needs and building for the long term, noting that the company has refused large acquisition offers in the past.

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“The market crashed and the market went back up very quickly and then we've seen more gyrations like that over time. So, markets going up and down, I think we we used to. We actually educate the company quite a bit on that. So, every quarter, you know, we have a an all-hands where we go through all of the results. Um and we always end up with a slide that says, you know, the in the short term, the the markets the the ”

“We went public at sort of the go public price was around 7 and a half billion. And we very quickly traded at 10, 12 up from that. Today we're around 80. But at the time it was around that. And we've refused large offers along the way and again the thinking there is always what's the upside? How do we think about the business? Are we done with what we wanted to do? Is there 5x, 10x more we can do? Can we see? Do we be”

“We spend maybe 20, 25% of our top line on go-to-market, which allows us to invest 30% of our top line on R&D which is what gives us the tools to then expand the other company and get more products but also remain relevant over time.”

“The fact that we have real balance across the three pillars of observability as well as meaningful scale in each one shows that data dog is unique within the industry in establishing true platform value for customers. Even though you've heard a lot of competitors say they have three pillars capabilities, their business typically remains driven by just one of these pillars which dramatically reduces the value they're ”

“We believe that we are investing several times more than our largest peers. We are also adopting AI in R&D and dog fooding our own products which gives us unparalleled leverage and velocity in our space.”

“we've been a little bit too scared when we saw the deceleration like basically we had no idea where the floor... we didn't know whether you know we were going to decelerate to growing 30% 20% 10% negative 10%... we slowed down on the hiring especially on the go to market side and it took us a while afterwards to rebuild the growth there. And so if I look back at what we've done at the time, if I could teach myself so”

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