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The reason for that is because I’ve seen the acceleration of AI, and I know we can ship all these things on the existing organization,

Sebastian SiemiatkowskiChief Executive Officer and co-founder · Executive, Klarna

Interview: Fortune (business magazine), Fortune (business magazine), February 17, 2026. Reported by Jacqueline Munis.

Checked against the source [ Grade C ] Said in the last year Klarna: $3.5 billion revenue, FY2025

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Who is speaking

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder. Runs the company and signs its earnings releases, so Siemiatkowski knows the numbers; Siemiatkowski is also promoting the company's AI story to investors and press. Role from Klarna's leadership page; career from Wikipedia.

How this was checked

Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-10-31).

Found as a direct quote: “The reason for that is because I’ve seen the acceleration of AI, and I know we can ship all these things on the existing organization,” Siemiatkowski said. The words match exactly. The trailing comma sits inside the closing quote mark.

How to cite this passage

Sebastian Siemiatkowski (Klarna), “Fortune (business magazine)”, Fortune (business magazine), 2026-02-17. https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/klarnas-ceo-dario-amodei-ai-white-collar-workforce-shrink-2030 Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/klarna-reason-because-ive-seen-acceleration-ai-i-2026

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