The a16z Show · Tuesday, August 11, 2026
DataDog has achieved a remarkable 98% adoption rate for AI tools across its entire workforce. CISO Emilio Escobar emphasizes that the company must adopt AI to remain competitive, starting with small deployments and scaling to over 4,000 engineers.
“For us, it was like, we have to do it, like any other software company. If we're not, we're going to be in the middle ages real quick.”
“So now we have over 4,000 engineers using them. I mean, actually, we have every employee in the company adopting some sort of AI, whether it's coding agent or Gemini, cloud defest, Chachi PT or whatever.”
“It's one, one version of AI or the other everyone is using.”