Co founder and CEO Andrew Bilecti joins us now for more and my goodness, Andrew, look at your stock up twenty seven point twenty five percent, thirty five percent growth on pretty decent customer growth. Where would you like to start. This is the best day for your stock since you went public.
Yeah, well, thanks for having us, and thanks to Clevio's around the world for a great quarter really delivering for our customers and partners. You know, I'm really excited about the one hundred and fifty thousand plus now businesses that we serve. We had a bunch of great brands in the quarter, Barstool Sports, hershial supply Company, and we're really what makes Clevieo special is we're helping businesses take control
of their relationships with consumers and then drive revenue. And I think when you know the economic environment is a little uncertain, software like Clevieo becomes a must have.
So on it being a must have, it's also interesting to look who's on the other side of the table for you. You added, like in the core Sampsonite, for example, Why does a company like Samsonite need Klavier?
Yeah, so what Clavio software does is we help pull all of a business's data together. So take Samsonite, you know, one of the largest luggage travel companies in the world. We help them organize that data and then deliver personalized experiences across a variety of channels from email to SMS
to mobile messaging. And because of how well Cleve connects with the other systems inside of an organization, and a lot of the advanced capabilities, including a lot of the AI features we've released in the last few months Clavio AI. You know, those two factors are wide. Businesses are choosing to work with us because we're a revenue engine.
I like to look at geography as well, and it's really interesting that the Emia region was continues to kind of be a driver for you Why why is there such engagement in Europe and the Middle East and Africa.
Yeah, So, you know, over the last few years, we've you know, we're executing our strategy really well. We've done a lot of expansion into Europe and with that, we launched our products and a lot of our you know, documentation. We added you know, we went beyond English into French. We formally launched in the French region and now we've established that playbook. It happened, you know, we launched in
Q two. We really like the growth we're seeing, and now we're going to take that same playbook and use it across the rest of Europe and then extend that around the rest of the globe into Asia and other parts of the Americas. And what we've known for a long time is there are businesses using Klavio in over eighty countries, but we're trying to build a product experience that's really native to them and so doing things like expanding our SMS capabilities. We've more than doubled the number
of countries where we now support text messaging. We have plans to grow that. So really excited about the growth we're seeing internationally and in Europe in particular.
Andrew, you're a bust STEM based company with fewer than two thousand employees. What's the talent story for you right now? Particularly in terms of AI and headcount. Many companies are actually cutting certain areas to reallocate to areas of growth like AI. What's your strategy?
Well, so, from a you know, from a technology standpoint, we are very much believers in using artificial intelligence, both for our customers and in for us. So we've seen good productivity gains from using AI across klaviy O and we invest our own some of our own engineering resources and doing that. But in terms of our headcount strategy, we're global business. Uh So we look for the best
talent around the world, you know. I know, we started in Boston, but we have offices now in Denver, in San Francisco, and London and Sydney, and we're planning to open more over the next few quarters. Uh So we look for folks that are really ambitious, we say high slope. They want to be learners. Uh And wherever that talent is, we want them to, you know, come join forces with us.
Andrew Bieleciici of Clavier