Brad Menezes (@bradmenezes), Director of Product at Datadog, joins Erik and co-host Yasmin Razavi, GP at Spark Capital.

They discuss:

- How go-to-market and product reinforce each other.

- The different elements of a sales team and how they think about sales at Datadog.

- Why events and conferences are key parts of their sales strategy.

- Why their product managers are important pieces of their sales team.

- Why it’s a mistake to ignore your competitors.

- How they think about creating new products.

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