{"id":18933,"date":"2026-10-24T07:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=18933"},"modified":"2026-10-24T07:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T07:54:58","slug":"i-sold-to-visa-for-2-billion-i-could-be-on-a-beach-right-now-but-im-risking-my-own-money-to-solve-the-problem-that-held-my-first-company-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=18933","title":{"rendered":"I sold to Visa for $2 billion. I could be on a beach right now, but I\u2019m risking my own money to solve the problem that held my first company back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/daniel-k.png?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Kjell\u00e9n is CEO and co-founder of Freda, the first agentic system built to map and run a company&#8217;s entire compliance operation across any domain in any framework. Freda emerged from stealth in September 2026. Kjell\u00e9n sold his breakout venture, Tink, to Visa for $2bn in 2022. Tink is Europe\u2019s leading open banking platform, with current partners including PayPal, NatWest, American Express, Revolut, ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas, Nordea and SEB.<\/p>\n<p>#sold #Visa #billion #beach #risking #money #solve #problem #held #company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Kjell\u00e9n is CEO and co-founder of Freda, the first agentic system built to map&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[245],"tags":[10105,552,865,2138,27,823,14644,4598,2339,937,6899],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}