Olivier Pomel

8 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 24, 2026 by Olivier Pomel · across every show →

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Jul 24, 2026 positive
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Pomel: A manager's job is knowing their domain, not pleasing their boss
“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?”
Olivier Pomel Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 14:12 How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
Jul 24, 2026
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Pomel: Founders should always move faster on hiring and firing
“The one thing, the one lesson I keep learning all the time, so, is that you should always move faster, especially when it comes to hiring and firing.”
Olivier Pomel Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 29:05 How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
Jul 24, 2026 positive
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Pomel: Scaling founders must sample raw customer feedback over executive summaries
“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…”
Olivier Pomel Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 12:19 How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
Jul 24, 2026 positive
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Pomel: Culture flows from leadership actions, not written value lists
“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.”
Olivier Pomel Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 9:44 How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
Jul 24, 2026
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Pomel: Framing products in established categories makes enterprise purchasing easier
“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…”
Olivier Pomel Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 7:10 How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
Jul 24, 2026 positive
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Pomel: Startups expanding to the US must relocate at least one founder
“I think the, you know, typically if there are two founders one of the founders moves to the U.S., and you cannot start in the U.S. Without, without having a founder there and you should absolutely go to the U.S. But I don't think you need to move the whole com…”
Olivier Pomel Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 27:45 How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
Jul 24, 2026 bullish
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Pomel: European startups must enter the US market immediately after PMF
“On the other hand, I think it's absolutely critical to go after the US market as soon as you can. So as soon as you have a product with some form of market fit go after the US market.”
Olivier Pomel Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 27:31 How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
Jul 24, 2026 positive
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Pomel: Inquiring on random support messages forces managers to stop managing up
“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…”
Olivier Pomel Jul 24, 2026 ▶ 13:26 How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator
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