Andrew Bialecki

15 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jun 26, 2024 by Andrew Bialecki · said 23 times in 11 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jun 26, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bialecki: Mailchimp's Exit From Shopify Was Not a Step-Change for Klaviyo
“I think that event, you know, we ran some analytics on this, I think, you know, a while, while ago, and there was definitely there was a bump, but I think people were surprised at how much there was kind of already these big, huge tailwinds and that, you know,…”
Andrew Bialecki Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 30:05 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2024
Insight
Bialecki: Marketing media no longer follows a strict power law
“I used to unabashedly think that, hey, when it comes to marketing, there's only a couple of there's only a couple of mediums media types that matter. I've definitely changed how I think about that now. I mean, we added SMS as part of our product set, and now w…”
Andrew Bialecki Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 1:01:08 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2024
Assertion Supported
Klaviyo Took 36 Months to Reach $1M in ARR
“For us, we started on January first of 20 12. In year one, we got to a couple thousand dollars in MRR. So say maybe 20,000 dollars in ARR. In year two, we got to a quarter of a million dollars in ARR, which was a huge jump, but we were still, you know, I think…”
Andrew Bialecki Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 20:48 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2024 negative
Insight
Bialecki: Separating engineering and customer support early reduces startup efficiency
“If you sort of, if you go too fast and you say bifurcate those roles, and let's say that engineers never talk to customers and all of a sudden you lose all that magic and it probably makes you less efficient.”
Andrew Bialecki Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 19:25 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Bialecki: Klaviyo Raised Series A, B, and C Rounds From Single Investors
“When we did our series A, B, C, it was all one investor. By the time you get to the roadshow, you're kind of back to like these party rounds where there's going to be lots of people you're raising from.”
Andrew Bialecki Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 40:10 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2024 negative
Insight
Bialecki: Cash Payback Cycle Is a Better Metric Than LTV to CAC
“I've never been as big of a fan of LTV to CAC as a measure. Cause I feel like it'd be too long term. You can have high upfront costs that sort of, it takes you a really long time to earn back. You know, when we were bootstrapping, we always thought about the c…”
Andrew Bialecki Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 58:03 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2024
Disclosure
Klaviyo Was Rejected by Every $20K Accelerator Grant Program It Applied To
“We'd applied to all these venture firms Had these kind of, you know, we'll give you 20,000 dollars and it's like, you know, no strings attached, no equity you know, for the summer. And so we applied to a bunch of these when we were about six months in, and at …”
Andrew Bialecki Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 17:43 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2024
What-if
Bialecki: Early capital would have accelerated Klaviyo's product engineering team
“We probably would have grew our product engineering team faster. I mean, it was, I kind of enjoyed Writing, you know, writing a lot of the code, building, you know, building and designing features, you know, in the early days. But I think there was a point at …”
Andrew Bialecki Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 20:00 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bialecki: Software will sell direct outputs over tools within 10-20 years
“I think that's generally the right direction. I'm maybe a little skeptical of how fast, you know, we get there. But I do think if you fast forward, you know, 1020 years, I think there's a lot of processes where, yeah, hey, I just need the output.”
Andrew Bialecki Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 49:09 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2024 positive
Insight
Bialecki: Entrepreneurs should limit capital raised because constraints drive creativity
“Don't take more capital than you need because the constraint You know, breeds a lot of creativity.”
Andrew Bialecki Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 18:34 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bialecki: AI Surrogates Will Soon Conduct Podcast Conversations for People
“I do think we're not far off from, you know, you and I could have this conversation and it's actually neither of us that are here present. It's just, but it's us, right? It's, you know, whatever's going on in our brains kind of hooked up.”
Andrew Bialecki Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 5:07 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2024
Insight
Bialecki: A Well-Executed IPO Roadshow Should Feel Anticlimactic
“I make the analogy that like so one, everybody talks about a road show, but the reality is, is you meet everybody, you know, three or four times leading up to that. So it's more like you're seeing people that you already know. So in some sense, the road show s…”
Andrew Bialecki Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 38:46 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2024
Insight
Bialecki: Great products fail without clear use cases and value presentation
“The product could be amazing, but if you don't have a use case or can't show somebody how it's valuable, like, you can, people, ah, okay, well, they'll just turn you off.”
Andrew Bialecki Jun 26, 2024 ▶ 6:47 Andrew Bialecki: Is Klaviyo the Most Under-Priced Public Company? | E1170 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Torres convinced Klaviyo founder Andrew Bialecki to take VC funding
“I convinced him to take VC money.”
Elias Torres Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 1:02:39 Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 21, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Torres was the first investor in Klaviyo
“That Klaviyo, you know, I'm a first investor, good friends with Andrew, right?”
Elias Torres Mar 21, 2025 ▶ 1:02:33 Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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