Olivier Pomel
18 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 22, 2020 by Olivier Pomel · said 4 times in 3 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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Jan 22, 2020
Pomel: Datadog never pivoted and built its original vision
“No, so we didn't pivot. So we were, it's a great question because when we didn't manage to fundraise initially we sort of gobbled the pitch quite a bit. We tried to turn it in different ways, and we thought maybe we'd, we'd do something a bit different, and we…”
Jan 22, 2020
Pomel: Datadog raised launch price to $15 then $18 without metric impact
“When we launched a product we priced the product initially, we were going to price it at 12 dollars per, you know, instance, per month and then the night before we said, let's put 15. And. It was, I cannot disclose that. It, We put 15, it worked fine and, you …”
Jan 22, 2020 negative
Jan 22, 2020 positive
Pomel: Datadog was founded to unify metrics, traces, and logs
“And one of the main reasons why we started a company was to bridge the gap between the different teams and break down the silos. It didn't make sense for us to have those things being separate and, you know, it turns out the problems actually don't stop at the…”
Jan 22, 2020
Jan 22, 2020
Pomel: Datadog was created to unify development and operations around shared data
“The starting point for Datadog was, no, there must be a better way. Maybe those people can talk to each other. And we wanted to build a system basically that brought the two sides of the house together. All of the data was relevant to both. Make sure they spea…”
Jan 22, 2020
Pomel: Real competition comes from novel approaches, not late copycats
“If their plan is to do whatever you're doing, or a fraction of whatever you're doing, ah, four years later, ah, that's not where your competition is going to come from. Your competition is going to come from people who are trying to do it differently, and Are …”
Jan 22, 2020
Pomel: Customers say they want false positives but hate noisy software
“When you ask, when we first visited customers to figure out what they wanted from our product. When you ask them to pick between a false positive and a false negative they'll say, oh, give me the false positive, I'll decide if it's right, but I want to know. I…”
Jan 22, 2020
Pomel personally monitors customer tickets, closed deals, and employee feedback
“I see a large volume of the tickets our customers are filing, so I want to stay in touch with what's happening with the product. And I'm going to see all the deals we close, and I'm also going to read all the comments we get from employees in employee service.”
Sep 27, 2024
Olivier Pomel: Y Combinator rejected Datadog over lack of initial product
“We applied to all sorts of incubators, we got to a Y Combinator interview, and then we didn't get into Y Combinator. I have an email from Paul Graham that says You know, a platform is only as good as its first product, and you don't have a first product, blah,…”
Sep 27, 2024 negative
Pomel: Paul Graham's 'Founder Mode' essay will do more harm than good
“My worry about the founder mode, and everything that gets pulled down to a very short piece like that, is that I think it's going to be used and abused in all sorts of different ways, because there's so much context that goes into every single word in there, l…”
Sep 27, 2024 negative
Sep 27, 2024 neutral
Sep 27, 2024
Pomel: Month-to-month contracts beat multi-year deals for validating new products
“So for new products and new companies, I would argue, month to month is great. Because your customers can try at any time which means you'll get the hard reality to hit you in the face and you can't ignore it, you know, which is a problem when you have, so you…”
Sep 27, 2024
Sep 27, 2024
Sep 27, 2024
Sep 27, 2024 positive
Olivier Pomel: Datadog's largest enterprise customers pay tens of millions annually
“Our smallest customers, you know don't pay us anything, and they're individuals or students. And our largest customers are the largest companies in the world, you know, paying us tens of millions of dollars a year, and we'll have pretty much everything in betw…”