Andrew Bialecki
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Klaviyo. On 2 shows, 3 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Andrew Bialecki co-founded Klaviyo with Ed Hallen in 2012, bootstrapping the marketing automation and customer data platform to profitability before leading its September 2023 IPO on the NYSE. As leader of the business, he has focused on scaling the platform past $1 billion in ARR and expanding into AI-driven autonomous marketing and customer agents.
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44said about them ↓ Everything Andrew Bialecki said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Bialecki: Klaviyo uses internal coaching agents to vet AI marketing proposals
“Every time it has a proposal, like, Hey, we think you should market to these customers in this way. You should send them this email. It will go check its work kind of against its coach that will say, Hey, how good will this, how good do you think this will act…”
Bialecki: AI agents will automate marketing campaign execution and experimentation at scale
“And we think that's going to be the future of frankly, like how marketing and just consumer experiences in general are delivered. It's going to be much less like each of us deciding every single decision And more, Hey, having really good agents that will bring…”
Bialecki: Workers orchestrating AI agent teams will be enormously successful
“There's so few people that are gonna get there in the next year or two. If those skills are gonna be so valuable, if you truly are not talking about AI, right? Yes. But if you're the kind of person that's, I can put an agent to work and actually have to produc…”
Bialecki: Klaviyo built an agent to pre-screen ideas using past design critiques
“I took all the crits, all the feedback that we've given over the last couple of years, right? These like Zoom meetings or raw notes, we just dumped it in a database, right? Gave it to an agent and said, look, from here on out, before we even get to those revie…”
Bialecki: AI agent adoption will outpace the talent pool to build them
“The reality is agents are going to come into our lives, like for every business, much faster than I think we're going to be able to build up a population of people that know how to build them.”
Bialecki: Klaviyo built an engineering team for headless AI agent onboarding
“Are you one last thing we've done for infrastructure is we've also gone down this path of how do we let somebody sign up for our software with their identity, right? Email, phone number, whatever it is entirely and use our product without ever touching it. So …”
Klaviyo uses identical underlying technology for SMB and enterprise customers
“The funny part is the technology isn't, you know, for us, I mean, it obviously just kind of scales, It's not really all that different. The product and technology, it's really just matching up with what are the things that matter most to those folks.”
Bialecki: Single-Brand Strategy Beats Maintaining Multiple Sub-Brands for SaaS
“It's easier to just have one brand for everybody. And then to your point of product marketing, you just have to make sure, you know, whether it's digital experiences or even the, you know, the events and the things that we do for customers that you know, bifur…”
Bialecki: Klaviyo Waited 10 Years Before Making Its First Price Change
“We did our first price increase, like, basically since we, or first price change you know what was it? I guess last year and that was, like, the first one in, like, 10 years.”
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 …”
Klaviyo used balance sheet cash for employee secondary tender offers
“I think that was our series B. I think we did ran a couple of others. Some were coordinated around like about fundraisings and some, I think were just, we had cash on the balance sheet.”
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,…”
Bialecki: Going public gives larger enterprise customers confidence in long-term stability
“As we were working with larger businesses, larger customers we knew there was some value in folks knowing that like, Hey, we were in it for the long run.”
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…”
Bialecki: Great products sell themselves, masking underlying company inefficiencies
“I think great products really do, you know, they will sell themselves. Customers will come to them. So it can hide a lot of things that you could be better at.”
Bialecki: Future software will run autonomously without human operators
“I think so much of soft, the software of the future, it's gonna be able to, you know, play itself. We think about software that is actually, you use it better because you don't have to be the user.”
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.”
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…”
Bialecki: SaaS lacked customer playbooks while e-commerce had established playbooks
“In some sense, if you think about in the SaaS world, defining what customer success is, they didn't really have a customer success playbook. They were figuring it out as they went along. In e-commerce, everybody knew kind of the standard playbook.”
Bialecki: Klaviyo bet it could add marketing faster than martech could build databases
“We said, Hey, we think we can add, you know, messaging and some of the marketing primitives on top of our database faster than all of the existing, say marketing tech companies that just did, you know marketing stuff fast. And they could figure out how to buil…”
Bialecki: Email deliverability is far harder to solve than sending infrastructure
“When you get into messaging, the hard part is not so much actually sending an email. Like that's pretty straightforward. There's like, you could actually, you could do that yourself if you want. The really difficult part is getting it delivered.”
Bialecki: Email providers penalize senders for low recipient engagement, not keywords
“Gone are the days where it's like, if you use the word Viagra, like that's spam and everything else is like good. Now it's actually very personalized where, Hey, you know, you Jason, you'll stop getting emails if you just stop opening them. And it's the respon…”
Bialecki: Combining platform partnerships with owned content drives the fastest growth
“I mean, I would tell folks like you're building stuff, like you want to invest in both, right? I mean, certainly like the partnerships we built have been fantastic. And at the same time, like we've built more of our own content in our own kind of like, I don't…”
Bialecki: Klaviyo buried open and click rates to prioritize direct revenue metrics
“We actually, in our product, we just deleted or kind of hid and de-emphasized all of the classic kind of, you know, metrics, things like open rates, click rates, all that stuff. We just said, Hey, you can find it, but it's a couple of pages deep. Instead, we j…”
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Who brings them up most Jason Lemkin 24Harry Stebbings 6Elias Torres 4Kady Srinivasan 3Jason Calacanis 2David Frankel 1
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Torres convinced Klaviyo founder Andrew Bialecki to take VC funding
“I convinced him to take VC money.”
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2026 14 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
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- Anthropic Files to Go Public | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation | The 996 Work Ethic · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg: How to Make Mega Deals | Lessons from Rabois, Halligan & Grady · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Elias Torres, Co-Founder and CEO @ Agency: What No One Tells You About Selling Your Company · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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- Going Long: How Procore’s Founder Tooey Courtemanche Built a Billon-Dollar SaaS Empire Over 23 Years
- 9 Things You Can Do to Grow Faster This Year with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
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2024 16 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- From Outbound to Channel Partnerships: Your Burning Sales Questions Answered by Jason Lemkin
- The Secrets to Selling and Scaling in Vertical SaaS with Slice's CRO
- The Era of HyperFunctional SaaS is Here l SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Approaching Half a Million Customers: How to Win in SMB | BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte
- Jason Lemkin: Crowdstrike, WTF Happens From Here? Wiz Rejects Google’s $23BN Acquisition Offer|E1181 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode
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| SAASTRLEDGER | Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Klaviyo | 2 | 45 | 100% 2/2 | full record on the Official SaaStr Podcast → |
| 20VCLEDGER | Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Klaviyo | 1 | 32 | 67% 4/6 | full record on 20VC → |