Datadog, every mention
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Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings I am in awe of the Datadog journey and your role in it, so thank you so much for joining me today.
- ▶ 3:36 Dan Fougere Why should it be data dog or whatever?
- ▶ 5:02 Dan Fougere And so the fact that I was at Medallia and Datadog back to back are two extremes. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:07 Harry Stebbings It's very hard to say that you have to have data dog right now. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:29 Dan Fougere And so I can know, like at Datadog, when I left, it was one
- ▶ 20:38 Dan Fougere So, when we started the enterprise at Datadog in early 2017, as I mentioned, there were no big deals to be had.
- ▶ 29:22 Dan Fougere At Datadog, there was something brilliant there where, I don't know if you've talked about this with anybody, but 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:44 Dan Fougere I would say at Datadog, Ahmet probably did it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:34 Dan Fougere Like I went to Datadog, which in, you know, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:30 Dan Fougere Both Medallion and Datadog happened in 2019. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:43 Harry Stebbings You said 67 from Datadog. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:55 Dan Fougere Like when I went to Datadog, people didn't want to go there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:47 Dan Fougere What I said at, I put a mission statement up that I stole from one of my mentors at Medallia, and I used, I, I iterated a little bit at Datadog that we will be known, we, we will, we will have a legendary sales team that will be known for…
- ▶ 57:47 Dan Fougere Um, and we were always trying, when I got to Datadog for sure, I was working with product all the time on how, how little can we discount?
- ▶ 1:02:15 Dan Fougere You know, that's a, my, my mom can get behind that at data dog, super technical sale. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:16 Dan Fougere And then Dave said, well, too bad you wouldn't move back to New York because I'm on the board of this hot company called data dog. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:13 Dan Fougere He has been able to take over Datadog. 2 times in the scene
Mark Goldberg: Why Politics is Rife & Decision-Making is Broken in Large VCs | E1219 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:57 Mark Goldberg I mean, if you look at, you know, I was very fortunate to see some amazing companies from index from the early days, whether it was a Figma, whether it was a whiz, whether it was a data dog companies that, you know, have been able to build…
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:41 Harry Stebbings I mean, to be fair on him, he, he's got data dog and whiz.
Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:00 unnamed speaker Databricks, Datadog, you know, basically what is the software that you need confluent?
Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:35 Shardul Shah Every investment in Datadog
- ▶ 16:45 Shardul Shah When we invested in, um, Olivier and Alexi Series A at Datadog, so he was not a great fundraiser.
- ▶ 22:32 Harry Stebbings Like, when you look at, say, like a Wiz or a Datadog, can you just talk to me about, like, break one down.
Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:11 Chad Peets The generation from Blade Logic, which includes some home, like, right, I mean, Dan Fougere from Datadog, Adam Ahrens from Okta, right, I mean, look at all of the different app dynamics, Dolly Rogic, who's a close personal friend of mine,…
Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:48 Jason Lemkin What it is, this is what Datadog perfected. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:20 Jason Lemkin Here's, just like data, everyone loved Datadog back in the day, right?
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Danny Rimer: The Biggest Lessons from Missing Snap, Airbnb, Spotify and Facebook | E1166 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:08 Danny Rimer So that's a, that's a really tough thing, but it's, it's made an enormous amount of difference, you know, from Audien to Datadog to Roblox.
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:08 Jason Lemkin So what's my, is it going to be better than data dog?
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:01 Jason Lemkin Some are great that they worked at data dog, throw it out and just, just listen.
- ▶ 20:15 Jason Lemkin You're, you're gonna lose, you're gonna lose the ripplings, and, and the gustos, and the deals, and the date, you're gonna lose Datadog, because you're gonna say, you know, New Relic owns the market.
- ▶ 30:47 Jason Lemkin That's what Olivier has done at Datadog, uh, uh, decimated multiple categories because it's a founder-led company, and he comes in and says, we're gonna own these categories. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:56 Jason Lemkin So make so much money on Datadog. 6 times in the scene
Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 59:30 Kevin Ryan So we talk about Mongo and Datadog. 2 times in the scene
Roger Ehrenberg: Why VC Returns Will Get Worse & Why LP Incentive Structures are so Broken | E1117 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:22 Harry Stebbings And I guess when you look at Datadog, when you look at the Trade Desk, you have many absolute bangers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:44 Harry Stebbings Because IA has amazing bangers, Wise, Datadog, um, yeah, the trade desk, great founders come to you, LPs come to you, and success is this cyclical snowball down a hill?
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:49 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) They were very big and they were poised to be the data log. 2 times in the scene
Ed Sim & Jamin Ball: Did Figma Kill M&A Markets & 3 Requirements to IPO in 2024 | E1101 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:59 Jamin Ball Um, and you see some of the most successful public companies today, the crowd strikes of the world, the data dogs of the world, right?
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:10:55 Jason Lemkin Do you have one data dog? 2 times in the scene