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olivier pomel

T2 · manager / operator

Co-founded Datadog with Alexy after 10 years working together at startups and IBM Research. Led the company from cloud-first observability to a 20-25 product platform, public since 2019. Known for pragmatic culture, deep product involvement, and early bets on cloud and AI.

1 call·1 name·100% bull·last heard 2 months ago·Y Combinator
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$DDOGDatadog

Datadog CEO: AI agents and coding inversion drive product pivot and internal productivity leap

Datadog is pivoting its platform to serve AI agents natively and embedding AI into the data plane, while internally experiencing a step-change in developer productivity where senior engineers rebuild systems in days instead of months.

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HIGHolivier pomel·Y Combinator·2 months ago·How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud
Datadog CEO: AI agents and coding inversion drive product pivot and internal productivity leap
Datadog is pivoting its platform to serve AI agents natively and embedding AI into the data plane, while internally experiencing a step-change in developer productivity where senior engineers rebuild systems in days instead of months.
"Um well, so we're we're getting earlier into the the So a few things. So one is we're making a we're investing a lot so that the product can be used by agents. Uh because we see t…"
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AI Coding Agentstailwind
Datadog internal AI adoption: senior engineers rebuild systems in days not months, triggering org pivot
A threshold crossing in model quality has enabled experienced developers to automate entire system rewrites, collapsing team sizes and cycle times, forcing Datadog to reorganize around AI-first development.
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AI Agentstailwind
Datadog pivots platform for AI agent-native observability as top AI labs become customers
Datadog is investing heavily to make its observability platform usable by AI agents, not just humans, and gains early signal from top AI labs pushing the product to its limits with infinite compute.
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Public Markets & Valuationmixed
Public investors lack VC-style concentration, requiring consistent story-and-numbers execution over quarters
Public market investors cover 20-30 names with shallow engagement versus VCs' deep 5-10 year commitment, so CEOs must craft a durable narrative backed by quarterly results rather than relationship-building.