Klarna Founder: From $0 to $46 Billion: Sebastian Siemiatkowski

He had a discussion with me or sleeping in the street. That's scary, like Be careful with who you're listening to. Have they really contributed to success? Have they really built success? Or have they simply been in a company that was successful afterwards I've heard from journalists that like a ton of emails were coming from banks'cause they simply, you know, they're threatened by our existence. And so the kind of articles and and the writing about us shifted from They're here too. screw customers over to do bad things. And that was tough.

I went home, had dinner with my wife, and we talked about it and I was like no, this time around I should probably help him. Uh I decided and I tried to call him and he didn't answer and I emailed it in answer and morning my mother called and said he was dead. Sebastian Shemakovsky. He's the CEO and founder of Europe's most highly valued

fintech privately held company. His company is worth forty five billion. Dollars. Sebastian isn't a guy that comes from a stable household or a silver spoon.

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