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Koji Ikeda

Bank of America · covers Technology

Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q3 (8 quarters; questions recorded in 7).

Questions
20on tracked calls
Challenge rate
15%3 of 20 questions
Companies
6questioned at least once
Reporting periods
7with questions

These figures cover the whole profile: every tracked question, all reporting periods.

How to read these numbers

Challenge rate is the share of questions that pushed back, pressed for specifics or questioned management’s assumptions. It describes how questions were asked on the calls tracked here; it does not measure whether any view turned out to be right.

Rounding. Rates are rounded to whole percentages, so a small share can show as 0% even when some questions were challenging. The count beside each rate is exact; “none of N questions” means no question was challenging.

No questions recorded. “—” means there is nothing to calculate: no questions were recorded for that period on the calls tracked here. It does not mean there was no activity.

Fewer than 3 questions. A company-level rate is withheld when fewer than 3 questions were recorded for that company; the questions are still counted everywhere else.

Small samples. Profiles with fewer than 10 questions are marked Limited sample.

Reporting periods. Questions are grouped by the calendar quarter each company’s fiscal reporting period maps to, not by the date of the call. Periods without a calendar mapping are listed separately under their fiscal label.

Questions asked

Grouped by company, most questions first. Open a company to read its questions, newest reporting period first.

Showing 20 of 20 questions from 6 companies

DDOGDatadog7 questions · 5 reporting periods · 1 of 7 challenging
DDOG company page →

Calendar 2026 Q2

how do you ensure that greater automation that might be driven by Bits AI doesn't eventually reduce the volume of activity that traditionally drove Datadog consumption?

ChallengingCloud & AIPricingTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Olivier argued more automation delivers more value, not less, framing the future of observability as fixing and preventing issues, and said customers who use Bits AI deploy more products and generate more usage, not a zero-sum outcome.

Calendar 2025 Q4

I was hoping to get your updated views on these thoughts if it has changed at all over the past year and why

Competitive DynamicsCloud & AITranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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Pomel's view is unchanged: taking observability in-house remains a cultural rather than economic decision. Even hyperscaler teams with unlimited tooling and money choose Datadog for direct path to problem-solving.

Calendar 2025 Q3

Is it coming from your largest enterprises? Is it coming from a certain type of customer? Is there a common theme in the workloads

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Pomel confirmed broad-based growth largely not GPU-related. Obstler added it spans enterprise and SMB (even excluding AI companies) and across all spending ranges, a truly broad demand improvement.

Calendar 2025 Q2

Are you focused on more organic, inorganic? And maybe an update to your M&A philosophy

M&ACompetitive DynamicsTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Pomel confirmed expectation for more security M&A, noting both table-stakes features and AI-driven disruption create opportunities for acquisitions.

How are you feeling about contract visibility, specifically with your large AI native customers

Cloud & AISubscriber GrowthTranscript · FY2025 Q2 →
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Pomel noted high retention, strong product engagement, and that churned customers often return. Short-term drops during renegotiations are expected but long-term growth follows.

Calendar 2024 Q4

Are you considering some changes in pricing and packaging, making pricing more localized for international customers

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Obstler confirmed FX exposure is minimal as Datadog is largely USD-based, with local billing not significant.

how do you think about the potential for infrastructure monitoring specifically the growth there to accelerate from current levels

Revenue GrowthCloud & AITranscript · FY2024 Q4 →
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Pomel highlighted GPU management, IoT/on-prem fleets, and network monitoring as potential growth drivers, noting still-small market share.

ADSKAutodesk4 questions · 2 reporting periods · 0 of 4 challenging
ADSK company page →

Calendar 2025 Q4

I think you mentioned there's about two more quarters left before free cash flow normalization

Capital AllocationGuidance ReliabilityTranscript · FY2026 Q3 →
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Janesh confirmed multiyear-to-annual billing transition dollar impact is done but growth rates will normalize. General rule of thumb: FCF growth correlates with underlying non-GAAP net income growth, with discrete items called out separately.

How have customer usage trends been around there? And any update on how we should be thinking about any timing of the monetization opportunity

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Andrew said robust API usage with monetization coming for heavy machine-based usage. Most customers won't be impacted, but those running 24/7 compute on APIs will see consumption-based billing. MCPs and APIs are another monetization lever going forward.

Calendar 2025 Q3

what sort of triggers in the industry could drive even more budget unlock for your largest global general contractor customers

DemandCapex InvestmentTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Andrew pointed to regulatory simplification and industrialized construction (prefabrication) as future unlocks. Current backlog already exists, customers need productivity technology now.

the language slightly changed to above from slightly above last quarter

Revenue GrowthDemandTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Janesh said NRR improvement largely reflects Q2 strength and NTM mechanical effects. Underlying NRR within 100-110% range, bouncing around quarter to quarter.

SNOWSnowflake Inc.3 questions · 3 reporting periods · 1 of 3 challenging
SNOW company page →

Calendar 2026 Q3

what is the consumption uplift for AI adopters relative to comparable nonadopters?

ChallengingCloud & AIDemandTranscript · FY2027 Q2 →
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Sridhar declined to share exact uplift figures but argued breadth and depth of use cases prove durability rather than pull-forward.

Calendar 2026 Q2

What makes you confident that Snowflake's position as the trusted enterprise data and AI partners secure over the long term?

Competitive DynamicsCloud & AITranscript · FY2027 Q1 →
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Sridhar cited hard-to-replicate infrastructure such as role- and row-level access control at scale, world-class replication and disaster recovery; Christian added that customers have already configured governance, security and identity in Snowflake, so AI amplifies that rather than forcing them to rebuild it elsewhere.

Calendar 2026 Q1

I'm most curious if you could talk about any air pockets where you were surprised that they didn't contribute more.

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Brian said there were no air pockets, citing good sales execution and RPO reflecting customer business outcomes.

TWLOTwilio Inc.3 questions · 3 reporting periods · 0 of 3 challenging
TWLO company page →

Calendar 2026 Q2

does the long-term opportunity for you scale more with AI agent-driven actions?

Cloud & AIInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Khozema said both, with interactions mostly human for the next couple of years before shifting toward human-to-agent volume.

Calendar 2026 Q1

giving you the confidence that you don't get disrupted by the time the opportunity really starts to get going

Competitive DynamicsCloud & AITranscript · FY2026 Q1 →
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Management cited market leadership, premium pricing, multichannel reach and 4,800 interconnections across 180 plus countries with compliance complexity as its moat.

Calendar 2025 Q4

But how should we think about it if there's upside to organic revenue?

MarginRevenue GrowthTranscript · FY2025 Q4 →
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Aidan held gross profit growth similar to organic revenue, citing mix: higher-margin voice is accelerating but messaging is almost 58% of revenue.

TEAMAtlassian2 questions · 2 reporting periods · 0 of 2 challenging
TEAM company page →

Calendar 2026 Q2

even if they increasingly centralize context inside other AI data layers, the Atlassian Teamwork Graph is still the moat versus potentially becoming a feature?

Competitive DynamicsCloud & AIInnovation & R&DTranscript · FY2026 Q4 →
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Mike argued context is hard to build and a unique differentiator, citing quality gains in chat, semantic code indexing, and skill inference. He said most organizations will run three-to-five knowledge graphs and Atlassian opened the Teamwork Graph via MCP server and CLI to interoperate with any agentic harness.

Calendar 2025 Q4

Does that equate to 5% more Jira usage?

Cloud & AISubscriber GrowthTranscript · FY2026 Q2 →
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Mike clarified 5% is differential vs non-AI cohort, not absolute rate. Cogen cohort companies are cutting-edge and growth-oriented. More code creation drives more architecture complexity, more management overhead, more security/compliance needs, all generating more Jira issues and collaboration.

PATHUiPath Inc.1 question · 1 reporting period · 1 of 1 challenging
PATH company page →

Calendar 2026 Q1

what are the main drivers we should be thinking about, whether that's product, geography, vertical

ChallengingSubscriber GrowthRevenue GrowthGuidance ReliabilityTranscript · FY2026 Q4 →
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Ashim pointed to net new ARR stabilizing in an 80-20/70-30 logo-vs-expansion split, driven by AI and agentic pulling through the platform.

Challenge rate by company

Every company this analyst questioned, most questions first. A company-level rate is shown from 3 questions; below that it is withheld.

CompanyQuestionsChallenge rate
DDOG Datadog714%1 of 7 questions
ADSK Autodesk40%none of 4 questions
SNOW Snowflake Inc.333%1 of 3 questions
TWLO Twilio Inc.30%none of 3 questions
TEAM Atlassian2—Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions
PATH UiPath Inc.1—Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions
  • DDOG
    Datadog · 7 questions
    14%1 of 7 questions
  • ADSK
    Autodesk · 4 questions
    0%none of 4 questions
  • SNOW
    Snowflake Inc. · 3 questions
    33%1 of 3 questions
  • TWLO
    Twilio Inc. · 3 questions
    0%none of 3 questions
  • TEAM
    Atlassian · 2 questions
    —rate withheld: under 3 questions
  • PATH
    UiPath Inc. · 1 question
    —rate withheld: under 3 questions

Activity by reporting period

Questions recorded for each calendar quarter that companies’ reporting periods map to (not the call date), with the challenge rate for that period. Periods inside the range with no questions are shown as “No questions recorded”.

Questions by calendar reporting period
Calendar periodQuestionsChallenge rateCompanies
2024 Q420%none of 2 questions1
2025 Q1No questions recorded——
2025 Q220%none of 2 questions1
2025 Q330%none of 3 questions2
2025 Q450%none of 5 questions4
2026 Q1333%1 of 3 questions3
2026 Q2425%1 of 4 questions4
2026 Q31100%1 of 1 question1
  1. 2024 Q42 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 2 questions) · 1 company
  2. 2025 Q1No questions recorded
  3. 2025 Q22 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 2 questions) · 1 company
  4. 2025 Q33 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 2 companies
  5. 2025 Q45 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 5 questions) · 4 companies
  6. 2026 Q13 questions · challenge rate 33% (1 of 3 questions) · 3 companies
  7. 2026 Q24 questions · challenge rate 25% (1 of 4 questions) · 4 companies
  8. 2026 Q31 question · challenge rate 100% (1 of 1 question) · 1 company

Topics

Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.

  • Cloud & AI11
  • Demand5
  • Competitive Dynamics5
  • Revenue Growth5
  • Subscriber Growth3
  • Pricing3
  • Guidance Reliability2
  • Innovation & R&D2
  • Capital Allocation1
  • Capex Investment1
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  • Margin1
  • M&A1
  • Fx1