Pomel: Datadog never more than doubled engineering headcount in a year
Olivier Pomel · 20VC: Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel on The Scaling Journey to a $26Bn Market Cap, The Challenges in Moving From Single To Multi-Product Company & How To Scale Efficiently into $M+ Enterprise Deals · Apr 5, 2021 · at 24:31
Olivier Pomel is the co-founder and CEO of Datadog. He discusses Datadog's measured growth trajectory and headcount management strategy.
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“We've been a little bit more measured early on, like we've never done more than double the size of the engineering team in one year, for example.”
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