How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud

In this chat at Startup School Paris, Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel reflects on his startup journey in New York, how staying close to raw customer feedback and support tickets keeps an 8,000 person company honest, and why moving faster on both hiring and firing remains the hardest thing for any founder to actually execute. Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs Chapters: 00:00 — Intro 01:43 — How Datadog Actually Started 04:47 — The DevOps Insight Behind the Company 06:17 — Riding the Cloud Explosion 07:29 — Was It Ever Obvious