Siemiatkowski, a top achiever at school, was born in 1981 to Polish parents who had emigrated to Sweden earlier that year.
His parents placed a strong focus on education when he was growing up in Uppsala, a city just north of Stockholm, and he recalls constantly going above and beyond what was expected of him, such as reading Richard Branson’s business books at the age of 12.
Is Sebastian Siemiatkowski polish?
Siemiatkowski has built Klarna into one of Europe’s largest banks in just 15 years, with 85 million customers using its ‘buy now, pay later’ service.
He’s also persuaded more than 205,000 fee-paying merchants to join, including Farfetch, Asos, Nike, and H&M, in order to make consumers’ purchasing experiences easier by essentially enabling flexible payment methods with just one-click.
You can choose to ‘Pay Later’ (14 to 30 days after purchase), ‘Pay In Three’ (three equal statements), or ‘Slice It’ with Klarna, which launched in the UK in 2014.
Sebastian Siemiatkowski ethnicity
Even though Sebastian was born to Polish parents his ethnicity is Swedish before he was born in Sweden.
