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Klarna Founder: Even $45.6 billion can’t buy happiness - Niklas Adalberth

Klarna Founder: Even $45.6 billion can’t buy happiness - Niklas Adalberth

FromSecret Leaders with Dan Murray-Serter


Klarna Founder: Even $45.6 billion can’t buy happiness - Niklas Adalberth

FromSecret Leaders with Dan Murray-Serter

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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Jul 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Niklas Adalberth is the co-founder and former Deputy CEO of Klarna. The massive Swedish fintech provides payment services for online shops like ASOS being able to offer their customers buy now pay later.
Although Klarna has been hugely successful, Niklas found himself hitting an emotional rock bottom after he came to the infamous realisation that money doesn’t buy happiness. 
After some soul searching, Niklas left Klarna and founded his next venture: Norrsken Foundation. It's a non-profit dedicated to helping entrepreneurs solve the world’s greatest challenges like poverty, famine, mental health, pollution, climate change, or something else entirely. Niklas is now less interested in unicorns than he is in impact unicorns – companies that positively impact one billion lives. 
We want to know if 'typical' entrepreneurial success is even worth it.
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Released:
Jul 11, 2023
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