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Analyst
Koji Ikeda
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
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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Calendar 2025 Q4
I think you mentioned there's about two more quarters left before free cash flow normalization
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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
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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
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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
Calendar 2026 Q3
what is the consumption uplift for AI adopters relative to comparable nonadopters?
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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?
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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
Calendar 2026 Q2
does the long-term opportunity for you scale more with AI agent-driven actions?
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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
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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?
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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
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?
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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?
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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
Calendar 2026 Q1
what are the main drivers we should be thinking about, whether that's product, geography, vertical
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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.
| Company | Questions | Challenge rate |
|---|---|---|
| DDOG Datadog | 7 | 14%1 of 7 questions |
| ADSK Autodesk | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions |
| SNOW Snowflake Inc. | 3 | 33%1 of 3 questions |
| TWLO Twilio Inc. | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions |
| TEAM Atlassian | 2 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
| PATH UiPath Inc. | 1 | —Rate withheld: fewer than 3 questions |
- DDOGDatadog · 7 questions14%1 of 7 questions
- ADSKAutodesk · 4 questions0%none of 4 questions
- SNOWSnowflake Inc. · 3 questions33%1 of 3 questions
- TWLOTwilio Inc. · 3 questions0%none of 3 questions
- TEAMAtlassian · 2 questions—rate withheld: under 3 questions
- PATHUiPath 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”.
| Calendar period | Questions | Challenge rate | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 2 | 0%none of 2 questions | 1 |
| 2025 Q1 | No questions recorded | — | — |
| 2025 Q2 | 2 | 0%none of 2 questions | 1 |
| 2025 Q3 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 2 |
| 2025 Q4 | 5 | 0%none of 5 questions | 4 |
| 2026 Q1 | 3 | 33%1 of 3 questions | 3 |
| 2026 Q2 | 4 | 25%1 of 4 questions | 4 |
| 2026 Q3 | 1 | 100%1 of 1 question | 1 |
- 2024 Q42 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 2 questions) · 1 company
- 2025 Q1No questions recorded
- 2025 Q22 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 2 questions) · 1 company
- 2025 Q33 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 2 companies
- 2025 Q45 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 5 questions) · 4 companies
- 2026 Q13 questions · challenge rate 33% (1 of 3 questions) · 3 companies
- 2026 Q24 questions · challenge rate 25% (1 of 4 questions) · 4 companies
- 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