When Klarna cofounder Sebastian Siemiatkowski heard venture capital firm Sequoia’s pitch a decade ago, he was “blown away.” Here was a famed Silicon Valley investor behind the likes of Apple, Google and YouTube visiting his payments startup all the way in Stockholm – to sell him on their help. But Siematkowski didn’t want to seem too easily wooed. “If we’re really the next Google, why isn’t the whole partnership here? Why is it only you who flew?” he asked Sequoia’s partner in the room at the meeting’s end. READ MORE