Klarna CEO says firm will likely reduce its workforce by 1,000 employees by 2030—partially due to AI

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Swedish fintech company Klarna, says the organization is set to employ drastically fewer people. And he says he shares his outlook on the workforce with another CEO: Anthropic’s Dario Amodei. 

Siemiatkowski made the comments on the 20 VC podcast with Harry Stebbings earlier this week, where the CEO didn’t deny that the company has been steadily shrinking.

The CEO said that currently the company has about 3,000 employees. That’s down from 7,000 just four years ago.