PagerDuty CEO Tejada Says Software Concerns Are ‘Overbaked’

PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada says the current environment requires flexibility from leadership and workers. She discusses her AI optimism and why 98% of PagerDuty developers are using AI coding tools. Tejada speaks with Caroline Hyde at a Bloomberg New Voices event in San Francisco.Source: Bloomberg

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By Agnee Ghosh and Alicia Clanton

March 4, 2026 at 5:23 PM UTC

Jennifer Tejada, whose software company PagerDuty Inc. has plummeted almost 42% this year over concerns about AI disruption, said the worries are “overbaked.”

Tejada, PagerDuty’s chief executive officer, compared shifting software systems to getting rid of a tattoo. “You can take it off, but it’s really painful, and it leaves a mark,” she said at the Bloomberg New Voices event on Tuesday in San Francisco.