Published on: 2025-06-06 00:22:44
“My wife taught me something,” Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told the crowd at London SXSW. He was addressing the headlines about the company looking to hire human workers after previously saying Klarna used artificial intelligence to do work that would equate to 700 workers. “Two things can be true at the same time,” he said. Siemiatkowski said it’s true that the company looked to stop hiring human workers a few years ago and rolled out AI agents that have helped reduce the cost of custom
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 03:04:58
The company's net losses just doubled. Do No Klarn Swedish buy-now-pay-later company Klarna, whose CEO once bragged about its automated customer service AI bots doing the work of "700 full-time agents," is now in deep trouble. The fintech outfit is facing net losses of $99 million for the first quarter of this year, CNBC reports, which is more than double compared to the same period last year. The company had already paused its highly anticipated IPO in the US last month, which once valued i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 07:58:00
Facepalm: As companies fall over each other replacing real employees with AI that doesn't require monthly wages, sick pay, maternity leave, etc., some are encountering a problem: AI performs a lot of jobs at a much lower quality than humans. AI-first firm Klarna has discovered this, and is now on a recruitment drive to add more flesh-and-blood staff to its ranks. Buy now, pay later/shopping service Klarna is one of the companies that have really been going all-in on AI. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkow
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 12:58:00
Facepalm: As companies fall over each other replacing real employees with AI that doesn't require monthly wages, sick pay, maternity leave, etc., some are encountering a problem: AI performs a lot of jobs at a much lower quality than humans. AI-first firm Klarna has discovered this, and is now on a recruitment drive to add more flesh-and-blood staff to its ranks. Buy now, pay later/shopping service Klarna is one of the companies that have really been going all-in on AI. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkow
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Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, speaking at a fintech event in London on Monday, April 4, 2022. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — After 20 years in the role as Klarna's CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski is about to face his toughest test yet as the financial technology firm prepares for its blockbuster debut in New York. Siemiatkowski, 43, co-founded Klarna in 2005 with fellow Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsson with the aim of taking on traditiona
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-22 01:58:14
Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, speaking at a fintech event in London on Monday, April 4, 2022. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg via Getty Images LONDON — After 20 years in the role as Klarna's CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski is about to face his toughest test yet as the financial technology firm prepares for its blockbuster debut in New York. Siemiatkowski, 43, co-founded Klarna in 2005 with fellow Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsson with the aim of taking on traditiona
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-03 05:30:51
The founder and CEO of IPO-bound fintech Klarna took to X to once again explain why his company ditched Salesforce’s flagship CRM product about a year ago in favor of its own homegrown AI system. But this time, Sebastian Siemiatkowski emphasized that he doesn’t think others will — or should — follow his lead. “I don’t think it is the end of Salesforce; might be the opposite,” he wrote. The news that Klarna had developed its own in-house AI system based on OpenAI’s ChatGPT that allowed it to dr
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