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Siemiatkowski: Personal accountability accelerates leadership learning speed
“Because they're so obsessed of trying to kind of think about what other people could have done differently, and why situations arised, and why it wasn't their responsibility, and so forth. They spend a lot of time on that, because we've unfortunately brought u…”
Siemiatkowski: 20% of Klarna transactions are debit, rest is interest-free credit
“20% of our transactions are debit. And then the rest is credit, but the credit is interest free.”
Siemiatkowski admits Revolut currently has higher user engagement than Klarna
“The engagement that I have is not as high yet as it is with Revolut.”
Bouaziz calls Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski a top mind in AI
“And I was jamming at night with Sebastian, actually, from Klarna, who is, like, thinking about AI 24 seven and probably one of the sharpest mind in terms of like integrating AI into your business.”
O'Driscoll: Sequoia achieved a 7x total return on Klarna
“Its peak was 45, Sequoia, which SoftBank did Sequoia brilliantly did the round at five or six, and obviously two or three X that, and I think overall seven X the overall investment.”
Klarna restructured into eight-person cross-functional teams inspired by Netflix and Amazon
“At the end, around 16 and 17, I got a new management team in place. Niklas had left, and the marriage quarrel were gone. And so we were finally able to sit down seriously and talk through how do we think we create a culture and a setup that works. And we decid…”