Klaviyo's strategy to become the Salesforce of B2C

Is Klaviyo the Salesforce of B2C? Based on their last earnings presentation, it's starting to look that way.. Most people think of Salesforce as a sales CRM because that is where the company started 20+ years ago, but you'd be surprised to learn that Sales Cloud now accounts for less than 25% of their revenue.. Salesforce's key unlock to expand beyond CRM was to own a business's data, and then sell products on top of that data. Now, that's exactly what Klaviyo is doing.. Klaviyo started with email, but for years, they've been touting that for upmarket customers, they're actually a CDP (Customer Data Platform) that will be the foundation of all parts of the customer lifecycle. After email, it was SMS, then reviews, and now it's Service. Guess what Salesforce's biggest revenue bucket is? Service Cloud It's over 30% of its revenue... Klaviyo is going to diversify revenue in a similar way as they continue to try to expand ACV and NRR.. But they know that won't happen overnight. Today, Gorgias has a fairly tight grip on the Helpdesk/service space, and Klaviyo shrewdly recognized that and allowed them to integrate into their "Customer Hub". Right now, they're the only partner integrated directly.. That said, it's hard to see those roadmaps not converging eventually, and I'd imagine Klaviyo arrives at a Build vs. Buy decision with Gorgias, a company less than 1/10 the size. That's pure speculation, but it's not crazy! It made sense for Kalviyo to build SMS natively and compete based on their marketing messaging roots, but I think this could be a different equation. Zooming out, Klaviyo's data asset does give it a specific "right to win" when it comes to managing these pieces of the customer journey. In our new AI-driven world, data is the moat. And Klaviyo certainly has the data. And a $10B market cap. And Shopify's unyielding support. According to earnings last week, Klaviyo Service is in Beta so pricing and ARPU impact aren't clear yet, but it'll be interesting to see how this develops over the next few quarters. What do you think?

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