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JACOB DE GEER

Banking is essential, but banks are not

Jacob de Geer (Sweden) is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of iZettle, one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies. Based in Stockholm, the financial technology company revolutionized mobile payments in 2011 with the world’s first mini chip card reader and software for mobile devices. Today, iZettle is a one-stop shop for commerce for small businesses around the world, and hundreds of thousands are using iZettle’s tools to take payments, to register and track sales, and to get funding.

You’ve said that your goal is to democratize commerce around the world. What ...