[everfrustrated]

>Even French-turned-American tech companies like Datadog have tried to maintain a presence in France

While started by two French founders, Datadog was always an American company. It was only post IPO they started hiring in France (for more than local sales roles).

[Octplane]

In 2017 (so really before the IPO), the Paris office was already at at least 50 people, most of them in engineering.