Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc on Datadog's origin, AI, and more | This Month in Datadog
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On a special episode of This Month in Datadog, co-founders Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc sit down for a rare, in-depth look at the challenge that inspired them to build the Datadog platform, what the company is working on today, AI, and more.
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0:00 Introduction
0:27 How Datadog’s co-founders met in college
1:45 What they learned during their startup years
9:13 The problem they wanted to solve
13:05 Founding Datadog in New York City
14:35 What Datadog means to Olivier and Alexis
17:42 The most surprising part of their journey
20:20 How Olivier and Alexis are using AI today
23:21 What excites them most about AI
24:43 How agentic coding is changing engineering
27:25 Building Toto, Datadog’s time-series foundation model
31:24 What’s next for Datadog
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