Datadog CEO says agents and smarter observability are the next AI bet
Y Combinator · youtube · 2026-07-25
In this Startup School Paris interview, Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel revisits how the company began, why staying close to customer support tickets still matters at scale, and how hard it is to move quickly on hiring and firing inside a large organization.
Key themes:
- Datadog started from a DevOps insight and grew with the cloud boom.
- Pomel says he still reads support tickets to keep the company grounded in customer feedback.
- The company uses a product portfolio of roughly 20–25 products to decide what to build next.
- On AI, he frames the next wave around agents and smarter observability.
- He even suggests that in a couple of quarters, “no code anymore” could become a real shift in how software gets built.
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