Datadog

“But so computer using is kind of, is going to be important for the future of code. Being able to run the code, being able to look at data dog logs and interface with those tools that humans use.”

“Your job is not to understand what I want, As a boss, your job is to understand what's happening within your span of control, and understand it very, very precisely. What's, what's working and not working?”

“We have the top 10 AI companies in the world as customers.”

“Our lockup expired the day of the COVID lockdowns. So I don't know if you remember, there was a big market crash that day. It was also a lockup expiring. One of our biggest investors got scared and he dumped everything that day. So I think, I don't know, we're…”

“With AI in particular, things are changing so fast that you just can't wait to see the demand materialize from the customer base. So you need to get ahead of it, which I think us and many others I think are going to get wrong more often, and we need to be at e…”

“It was not called observability. It was called monitoring. And it was very job specific and very reactive. So, you know, for network monitoring, you'd have a product for, you know you'd have something that the ops team would use, but the developers would never…”

“We saw like literally, I mean, absolutely excellent developers, like not beginners, but people rebuild whole systems in a couple of days alone that were absolutely amazing. Things that would have been possible, but, you know, done by a team of six, over six mo…”

“Yes, we applied. We got an interview. I've got I've got a rejection email from Paul Graham still, you know.”

“Another thing I think I encourage everyone to do as soon as you start scaling a little bit in your company is to keep in touch with what's actually happening on the ground. And by that I mean the actual support requests, the actual sales transcripts from the s…”

“What we said instead is culture flows from the top. So we exemplify the culture, we hire, we promote, we hire based on the culture, and today, that still works.”

“People love the idea of a new thing, but they have no idea what they should pay for it, and their boss has no idea what they should pay for it, whereas you say, oh, this is financial monitoring and then everybody, everybody and their boss understands, yes, act…”

“Well, what I do is I just pick up those random emails or, you know, Slack or whatever, and I just reply with a question, you know. I was like, I don't understand what's going on. And then, you know, and then, you know, the, what happens is that, there's two th…”

“Does it impact the company in the short term? No, but it creates a comp issue because people are paid in RSUs. So the main things you have to worry about is, okay, so what does it change to comp and how can we manage that?”

“The premise for the company, which was let's bring Dev and Ops together into one platform was actually completely central to the explosion of the cloud. And we also completely underestimated the explosion of the cloud with, oh, that's interesting. There's this…”