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Datadog's largest customer, OpenAI, slashed its $150 million software spend
“Datadog's story was just, everything's amazing, but our biggest customer, and everybody knows it's OpenAI and know what it says, right, is suddenly realized they maybe don't need to spend a hundred and fifty million dollars and they're spending less.”
Lemkin: OpenAI Pays Datadog $240 Million Annually
“So apparently OpenAI pays Datadog two hundred and forty million a year.”
Mukherjee: Datadog won market dominance through six years of GTM consistency
“They never change segmentation. They never change comp models. They just ran a dialed-in machine for six to seven years, and they compounded value while everybody else kind of kept thrashing.”
Fougere: Datadog reduced CAC via non-commissioned Customer Success growth
“And so the CAC was incredible because the growth was non-commissioned because CS did not have commission, right?”
Randle: Top public SaaS platforms trade above 15x NTM revenue
“You have, I mean, Palo Alto, CrowdStrike, Cloudflare, Datadog, Palantir, all these companies trade above 15 times NTM revenue again.”
Lemkin: A huge percentage of Datadog customers buy eight products
“That's what Olivier has done at Datadog decimated multiple categories because it's a founder-led company, and he comes in and says, we're gonna own these categories. We're gonna keep owning a product after a product. No, they don't win in everything, but that'…”
Stebbings: Datadog Stock Surged 23% Following AI Customer Revenue Growth
“Datadog absolutely freaking crushed. Stock up 23%. Fifteen million dollar plus AI native customers.”
Datadog employees donated $1 million to communities from company pandemic grants
“We actually gave grants to our employees to help them solve their own problems. We also decided to donate some of these grants because some people were feeling bad. They're feeling okay themselves, but they're really feeling really depressed and bad about thei…”