Jacob de Geer is the CEO of iZettle. Geer is based in Sweden. Geer has held the role since 2010.
Swedish serial entrepreneur who co-founded iZettle (now Zettle by PayPal) in 2010. Previously worked at TradeDoubler and co-founded Ameibo and Tre Kronor Media. He stepped down from CEO role in late 2021 and now leads PayPal's Small Business Segment Solutions.
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AI summary of recent coverageRecent coverage has focused on Jacob de Geer's leadership of iZettle, a Stockholm-based payments company, and its acquisition by PayPal in 2018 for $2.2 billion in an all-cash deal—PayPal's largest acquisition at that time. The headlines document iZettle's growth trajectory leading up to the sale, including its rapid merchant onboarding and de Geer's public profile as an executive advancing cashless payment solutions. Coverage also noted that de Geer had been positioning the company for a public listing on Nasdaq Stockholm before the PayPal acquisition materialized.
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