No Priors Ep. 21 | With Datadog Co-founder/CEO Olivier Pomel

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

June 15, 2023

Duration

44m

Channel

No Priors

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Olivier Pomel, co-founder and CEO of Datadog, the leading observability company, discusses the company’s founding story, early product sequencing, platform strategy, and acquisitions. Olivier also shares his thoughts on their more recent expansion into security, and why he’s bullish on the potential for AI in DevOps. ** No Priors is taking a summer break! The podcast will be back with new episodes in three weeks. Join us on July 20th for a conversation with Devi Parikh, Research Director in Generative AI at Meta. ** 00:00 - DevOps and AI Potential 06:54 - Datadog and Generative AI 20:40 - Datadog's Acquisition and Expansion Strategy 31:46 - LLMs in Automation and Precision 42:35 - Datadog's Customer Value and Growth

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Elad Gil

  host

• Olivier Pomel

  guest

• Sarah Guo

  host

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of No Priors, featuring Elad Gil and Olivier Pomel, No Priors Ep. 21 | With Datadog Co-founder/CEO Olivier Pomel explores datadog CEO on AI, observability, security, and disciplined hypergrowth strategy Olivier Pomel, Datadog’s co-founder and CEO, traces the company’s origins from bridging dev–ops culture gaps to becoming a unified observability and security platform at massive scale. He explains how building from New York, staying close to customer reality, and designing a single integrated platform underpins Datadog’s broad product expansion and efficient, near-profitable growth. A significant portion of the discussion focuses on generative AI: its impact on software workloads, developer productivity, observability, and the emerging LLM tooling stack, as well as Datadog’s cautious, outcome‑driven use of AI in its products. Pomel also details Datadog’s approach to acquisitions, security, customer segmentation, and leadership practices that sustain execution through changing macro and technological environments.

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