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Up until a massive expansion push some years ago, Klarna used to be a profitable company. It expanded from 3200 employees in 2019 to the 7000 that are there now. They also started spending money on experiments that had not much to do with the core business.


Employee count may be the worst business metric of all time.


depends, for what?

it is a good metric for number of employees you employ :)


money raised is better (worse)




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