Pomel: Multi-product scaling requires a culture willing to fail on new products
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 20:27
Olivier Pomel, co-founder and CEO of Datadog, describes the internal mindset shift required when expanding beyond a flagship successful product.
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“I think the thing that's the hardest is that when you're successful with one product, you're used to being successful and you're used to being right, and to having a good product that's fully fledged and everything else. When you start new products, you're going to be wrong. So it means, one, you have to know how to deal with it when you're wrong, and two, you have to actually want to be wrong. And it's hard. In a culture where you're successful, it's hard for people to put themselves in a situation where they're going to be wrong, they're going to take more risks, and they're going to have to fail and then fix it.”
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