Pomel: Datadog never pivoted and built its original vision
Olivier Pomel · Fireside Chat with Olivier Pomel (Founder & CEO of Datadog) and Matt Turck (Partner at FirstMark) · Jan 22, 2020 · at 43:53
Olivier Pomel, co-founder and CEO of Datadog, answers an audience question about whether Datadog ever pivoted in its early history.
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“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 were full of that at the time. But as it turns out, the product we shipped initially and the product we have today almost look exactly like the notebook drawings that we had done in, you know, in the end of the year.”
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