diff --git a/charts/shipyard/values.yaml b/charts/shipyard/values.yaml
index 519b8031..f1c415cc 100644
--- a/charts/shipyard/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/shipyard/values.yaml
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ conf:
       sql_alchemy_reconnect_timeout: 30
       parallelism: 32
       dag_concurrency: 16
-      dags_are_paused_at_creation: "True"
+      dags_are_paused_at_creation: "False"
       non_pooled_task_slot_count: 128
       max_active_runs_per_dag: 16
       load_examples: "False"