Datadog, Inc. ( NASDAQ: DDOG ) 52nd J.P.

Morgan Annual Global Technology, Media & Communications Conference May 20, 2024 12:30 PM ET Company Participants Olivier Pomel - CEO Conference Call Participants Mark Murphy - JPMorgan Chase & Co Mark Murphy Okay. Welcome, everyone. I'm Mark Murphy, software analyst with JPMorgan.

It is a great pleasure to be here with Olivier Pomel, who is the CEO and Co-Founder of Datadog. So first off, Olivier, thank you so much for being with us here today. Olivier Pomel Thank you for having me here.

Question-and-Answer Session Q - Mark Murphy So most investors in this audience are pretty familiar with Datadog. You're approaching a $2.5 billion revenue run rate.

For those in the audience who might not be familiar, can you describe Datadog? Can you explain the types of problems you solve and how is it that you've emerged from this crowded field to become the leader in observability? Olivier Pomel Yes. So what we do is, we do observability and security for cloud environments. So we basically sell to engineering teams in companies big and small.

Anybody from the tiniest teams of students or even individuals who don't pay us anything, all the way up to the largest banks and telcos, and software companies in the world that use our software. We started the company not really as a better mousetrap. So the idea was not to look at IBM, Tivoli or BMC or all these things and build a better one.

The starting point was to get teams that didn’t speak to each o.