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Buy now, pay later online payment provider Klarna began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Its IPO was priced at $40, which valued Klarna at about $15 billion, but opened at $52 per share in its debut.<\/p>\n

“To me, it really just is a milestone,” Klarna’s co-founder and CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, told CNBC on Wednesday. “It’s a little bit like a wedding. You prepare so much, and you plan for it, and it’s a big party. But in the end, marriage goes on.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, just a few days before the IPO, Klarna, which was founded in 2005, told employees that it is joining Microsoft, Target, and other companies in mandating a return-to-office schedule (RTO) \u2014 in Klarna’s case, three days a week in the office starting September 29.<\/p>\n

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, chief executive officer and co-founder of Klarna Holding AB, during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Michael Nagle\/Bloomberg | Getty Images<\/sup><\/p>\n

Related: <\/b>‘A Game Changer’: Klarna Becomes Walmart’s Exclusive Buy-Now-Pay-Later Provider<\/p>\n

According to a Slack post seen by Business Insider, Klarna posted the news on an internal message board, but comments were disabled. Emoji reactions, however, were not.<\/p>\n

According to the outlet, around 3,000 Klarna workers saw the post, and responses included a sad face (341), a “no” emoji (167), sweat-faced and sad (149), sad cat (131), facepalm (90), crying (86), clown face (73), and a “this sucks” (41) emoji.<\/p>\n

There were also some custom creations: the “Homer Simpson backing into a bush” meme emoji (62), a “Hide the Pain Harold” meme emoji (43), and a child going down a slide saying “bye” (17).<\/p>\n

Related:<\/b> Klarna’s CEO Used an AI Clone of Himself to Report Quarterly Earnings. Here’s Why.<\/p>\n

Still, not everyone hated the news; there were 19 thumbs-up emojis and 14 rocket ship emojis, Business Insider notes.<\/p>\n

In June, Klarna announced that it was launching a debit card called the “Klarna Card.” Siemiatkowski told CNBC that the company has signed up 700,000 card customers in the U.S. so far, with a waiting list of five million people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Buy now, pay later online payment provider Klarna began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. Its IPO was priced at $40, which valued Klarna at about $15 billion, but opened at $52 per share in its debut.<\/p>\n

“To me, it really just is a milestone,” Klarna’s co-founder and CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, told CNBC on Wednesday. “It’s a little bit like a wedding. You prepare so much, and you plan for it, and it’s a big party. But in the end, marriage goes on.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, just a few days before the IPO, Klarna, which was founded in 2005, told employees that it is joining Microsoft, Target, and other companies in mandating a return-to-office schedule (RTO) \u2014 in Klarna’s case, three days a week in the office starting September 29.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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