Pomel: A CEO's role is being 'equalizer in chief' during highs and lows
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 16:27
Olivier Pomel, co-founder and CEO of Datadog, explains how leaders should manage company morale during organizational highs and lows.
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“As a CEO in general, you have to be the equalizer in chief, you know, so when things look great, you have to temper people's enthusiasm a little bit and say, hey, This looks great, but, you know, all these other things are still broken, we need to fix them. Whereas when things are pretty dire, you need to remind people that these two shall pass, and our goal is to improve it and fix it, and it will get better next week.”
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