One of my favorite ACQ2 interviews we've done. Sebastian's honesty and directness makes for a great listen.

🎙️ Your next morning commute listen ⬇️⬇️⬇️

A lot of people ask me about us selling Klarna Checkout and why. I see some theories better or worse on why. If you really want to know why, I lay it out exactly like we think about it in the Acquired Podcast podcast It starts 33 min in open.spotify.com/episode/4G40T1…

Episode 109 with Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski: - going from profitability to burning $150M/month and back to profitability in less than a year - being OpenAI’s favorite guinea pig for AI ideas - boosting productivity at Klarna with AI agents - fundraising lessons and mistakes - the

Such a thoughtful and open convo between Sebastian Siemiatkowski and logan bartlett on his latest episode of The Logan Bartlett Show about Sebastian’s beginnings and leading Klarna over the last ~20 years.

If you shop on the internet, you’ve probably seen Klarna and its buy-now, pay-later installment offers. But Klarna does much more than just installments. On this week’s episode of #LeadershipNext, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski talks about Klarna’s early adoption of AI, why the company

"It became very obvious to me that Sam and Open AI would be a company that would be very hard to reach very soon," Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski tells Fortune. Read more: bit.ly/3S8amyH

Did Klarna really automate 700 customer service agents? I asked its CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/did… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4Djef8…

Spotify’s Q3 results are here and it was another standout quarter. Here are a few highlights + a quick hello from our new CFO, Christian Luiga! Thank you to the team for continuing to deliver. 🙌🚀

Doesn’t get much better than #spotifywrapped getting its own skit on SNL! Spotify Saturday Night Live - SNL

An inspiring sneak peek Spotify facilitated by Dustee T. Jenkins with Maha Abouelenein, on Maha’s new book - 7 Rules of Self-Reliance: How to Stay Low, Keep Moving, Invest in Yourself, and Own Your Future. Can’t wait to dive into it!

Spotify is known for its algorithmic recommendations, but this executive brings a human touch to finding new hits on.wsj.com/4g4ZhYv

Big day for Spotify as we celebrate our first full year of profitability! 🔥

NEW: Spotify, in a rare move, shared very specific revenue data from some of the podcasters putting video on its service.

Spotify is proud to be recognized as one of FORTUNE World’s Most Admired Companies™ 2025, ranked #2 on the Media and Entertainment sector list. #MostAdmiredCompanies fortune.com/ranking/worlds…

Spotify pays the majority of every dollar we generate from music back to your selected rights holders (record labels, publishers, PROs, collecting societies) and distributors 🎶 In 2024, that added up to more than $10 billion, the largest in music industry history. When Spotify

New: Spotify unveiled its new ad exchange Thursday at its Advance event in Manhattan. The product, called SAX, will allow for the first time the programmatic buying of Spotify's logged-in audiences through major DSPs like TTD and DV360. For ADWEEK: adweek.com/programmatic/s…

From expanding the Spotify Partner Program to rolling out Concerts Near You—we’re accelerating value and strengthening connections between artists, fans, and creators. Check out the highlights from $SPOT Q1 2025 earnings: spoti.fi/4lNbdSN

Such an historic moment for our US consumers and app developers everywhere!

This week, we brought a few guests from across Europe to our Stockholm HQ where we shared a big milestone: Spotify now has 100 million paying subscribers in the region. I still remember launching Spotify market by market back in 2008, and the excitement when we hit our first