I 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.
Apparently 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.
Re:The layoffs at Klarna
by speedgoose on Sunday August 14, 2022 @12:53PM
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But can you keep thousands of people busy on such a project?
A 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.
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