Klarna. Over the past decade, he has overseen the company’s rapid growth across Europe and North America. In the last 14 years, technology has evolved, excited, and transformed the world around us, yet our mission remains as relevant as ever – to make paying as simple, safe and above all, smooth as possible. Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski Klarna Swedish payments startup Klarna is now a $2.25 billion company, but when CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski cofounded the … Klarna is an e-commerce payment solutions platform for merchants and shoppers. Sebastian Siemiatkowski “I didn’t know what fintech was in the early days.
He currently serves as its Chief Executive Officer. “If I called a big company, I would speak to the head of accounts and they wouldn’t be interested in changing, but an entrepreneur would say ‘what, I can save £100?
Luke Griffiths, who heads up the UK operation, was sent out to do some research on new services, but he came back and told them to just keep doing what they did elsewhere.
That makes the company one of Europe's few "unicorns" — a private tech company valued at over $1 billion. In just 15 years, Siemiatkowski has grown Klarna into one of Europe’s largest banks, which provides, at its core, a ‘buy now, pay later’ service to 85 million shoppers. Klarna is a now fully licensed bank with over 60mn consumers, 130,000 retail partners and 2500 […] Whatever works for the client, works for us.”Perhaps all it will take for him to be convinced to do it is for someone to tell him that he can’t.This is all rather at odds with Siemiatkowski’s personal presentation, which can best be described as low-key; he arrives wearing jeans and a jumper and apologises for being late as his taxi was stuck in traffic (he tells himself off for not taking the tube as taxis are always a risk in the rain in London) before he bolts down a very ordinary-looking sandwich, as he hasn’t had time for lunch.
We have already developed a strong working relationship with CBA and we look forward to providing even more opportunities together for our customers in … Klarna chief executive Sebastian Siemiatkowski warned the commissions rivals such as Afterpay charge merchants are unsustainable as the Swedish … He was right.Doing things differently and not listening to what anyone else told him, has in fact been at the heart of Klarna’s success.
Klarna was founded in 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden with the aim of making it easier for people to shop online. Come and see me!’.” It’s gone 3pm.By the time it decided to look at the UK market, the naysayers (and the fact that UK consumers have no qualms about credit cards) had an affect, and Klarna thought it would have to approach things differently. Sebastian has received multiple awards for his leadership and holds a master’s degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.Slush is a global not-for-profit student-led movement on a mission to help world-changing founders since 2008. Instagram Twitter Linkedin. Founded by Niklas Adalberth, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, and Victor Jacobsson in 2005, Klarna is backed by investors that include BlackRock, General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital, Visa, and Wellcome Trust and is … Someone told me there was some place called Silicon Valley and I looked at it on Google Streetview , which had just launched back then,” reminisces Sebastian Siemiatkowski, co-founder and CEO of disruptive payments provider Klarna , of the days before he was a globally renowned entrepreneur. In 2005, Sebastian Siemiatkowski co-founded Klarna in order to provide safe and smooth online payments.
When he was 23, Siemiatkowski was taking a sabbatical from studying at the Stockholm School of Economics, and got himself a job at an accounts receivable company.He realised early on that the key to success was seeking out fellow entrepreneurs and getting those on board before the others followed.