3 ms·
> Klarna’s “Super App” was an area getting lots of investment in 2021. This investment was a step away from the core offering of the handling of payments. The v
by akmarinov 4y ago
> Klarna’s “Super App” was an area getting lots of investment in 2021. This investment was a step away from the core offering of the handling of payments. The vision of this app was to create an experience where people could do all their shopping within a Klarna super-app.
However, this super app never launched as planned. Internally, confusion arose when it emerged the super app would use scraped data from customers who were already partners of Klarna. The super app efforts are still progressing slower than originally planned, and some employees think the company is spending too much on this area for too little return.
Trying to come up with something out of nothing it seems
- speedgoose 4y agoBut can you keep thousands of people busy on such a project?
- djbusby 4y agoA technique I learned from possibly the worst project/product manager ever was to have loads of meetings. And over schedule them. And show up late. It makes everything so slow, and you have to have more people so that somehow, in between meetings a line of code could be written.
- bombcar 4y agoApparently every "payment" app/startup is valued as if it will somehow magically replace Amazon instantly. I don't understand it myself, but that's what happens.
- enviclash 4y agoI might be just an ignorant user in Europe, but this super-app thing could scare me out of Klarna and let me find an alternative, I got uncomfortable with the app when they required unnecessary data for a payment.