"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. "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.""
"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. 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. 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)."
Klarna began trading on the New York Stock Exchange with its IPO priced at $40, valuing the company at about $15 billion, and shares opened at $52. The company instituted a return-to-office requirement of three days per week starting September 29. Around 3,000 employees saw the internal Slack announcement, which disabled comments but allowed emoji reactions. Emoji responses skewed negative, with hundreds of sad and disapproving reactions and dozens of meme emojis; a small number of positive thumbs-up and rocket emojis also appeared. Klarna was founded in 2005.
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