Klarna’s Ambitions to Move Beyond Buy Now, Pay Later

Paying in installments is just a Trojan horse for the payments company’s plans to become a shopping destination

Kevin LaBuz
Marker
Published in
7 min readOct 3, 2021

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Source: By after the Vergilius Vaticanus — Internet Archive, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36252106, Klarna, and Below the Line.

If Sebastian Siemiatkowski made the boat, Klarna wouldn’t exist. Siemiatkowski, Klarna’s co-founder and CEO, was backpacking around the world without taking any airplanes. Missing a cargo…

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Kevin LaBuz
Marker

Head of IR & Corporate Development at 1stDibs. Previously finance at Etsy, Indeed, and internet equity research at Deutsche Bank. Find me on Twitter @kjlabuz.