Founder Unfriendly Live AMA with Alexis Lê-Quôc of Datadog
For every 100 founders in the room, only a handful will raise venture capital — and most never get a straight explanation of why.
As part of the launch of Charlie O’Donnell's book, Founder Unfriendly: What Investors Won’t Tell You About Getting Funded, we’re hosting a series of live, 30-minute AMAs with experienced founders and operators who’ve been through the process — successfully and unsuccessfully.
These sessions are designed to give founders what they rarely get:
An honest look at how investors evaluate opportunities
Clear insight into where the bar actually is (and why)
Practical advice on when to push forward — and when to pause, rethink, or walk away
This session we're featuring Alexis Lê-Quôc of Datadog.
Prior to founding Datadog, Alexis Lê-Quôc served as the Director of Operations for Wireless Generation, where he built the team and infrastructure that served more than four million students in 49 states. As a member of the original “devops” movement, Alexis spent several years as a software engineer at IBM Research, Neomeo, and Orange, and he brings a strong focus on technical elegance and operational efficiency to Datadog. Alexis holds an MS, CS from the Ecole Centrale Paris and has presented sessions on cloud monitoring and server performance at many conferences, including AWS re:Invent, Monitorama, DevOpsDays, Velocity, and PyCon.