Pomel: Established companies initially dismissed Amazon's cloud as an unusable toy
Olivier Pomel · How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud · Y Combinator · Jul 24, 2026 · at 5:47
Olivier Pomel, co-founder and CEO of Datadog, reflects on early market skepticism toward cloud infrastructure when Datadog was founded.
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“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 Amazon thing. But, you know, when you talk to real companies, they all say it's a toy and they're never going to use it. Turns out they all did.”
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