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I don’t want to post my own company since it can be traced to me IRL, but yeah, all tax returns are public in Sweden, personal and companies alike.

Here is Spotify’s financials from its inception to today:

https://www.allabolag.se/5567037485/spotify-ab

You can find the same data for all companies.

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Spotify is publicly traded. Do you have an example for a privately owned company?

Spotify didn’t go public until a few years ago, but sure, I get your point.

Here’s Delaval, privately owned maker of milking robots:

https://www.allabolag.se/5560123928/delaval-international-ab

Buffer is one example: https://buffer.baremetrics.com/

More importantly, why should all financials be public? I think this could be something that made more sense before the internet age; before all such information was searchable so easily. Why is how you manage your finances my business? Why is how Cloudflare manages its finances my business? Unless, of course, it is applying to have every one as a potential investor, in which case it makes sense to inform every one as to its financials.

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