Analysis

August 12, 2022

The hangover cure for those with secondaries in Klarna — buy more

Not all doom and gloom for marketplaces for secondaries when markets crunch


Mimi Billing

4 min read

Klarna

What was billed as "Christmas come early" in the autumn of 2020 has become a sour aftertaste in today’s tech market.

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Johan Hägglund is the CEO and founder of investment platform Tioex
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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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