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Not exactly a scaleup either...

Creator of the list here. For some of the companies on the list the label "startup or scaleup" is debatable ofc. But I often find it not to be a clear-cut thing in those cases.

I tried to use a mix of "criteria" such as company age, whether it acts like a startup/scaleup (rapid innovation, invests heavily in growth, needs external funding to get going), whether it's covered intensely by the startup-focused tech media etc.

To me, Klarna ticks those boxes.

I agree, was just being witty. Impressive list -- cheers!

Thanks! Fortunately, I have been using the same structure in all my 171 previous weekly newsletter issues. So while it was a huge amount of copy & paste, the mental work was fortunately limited. Still I do feel exhausted now.

Yeah, Klarna is rather more of a 'scale-down' recently.

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