$11B Airwallex Founder Jack Zhang's Crazy Journey: Choosing Happiness Over Valuation, Turning 1M into 500M, and Saying No to >$3B of Stripe Stock
What did it take to build an $11 billion company, Airwallex?
Jack moved from rural northeast China to Melbourne at 15 and now runs Airwallex, the global payments and business banking platform.
Cameron McLain and Tommy Stadlen talk to Jack about what it took to get there: the jobs he worked to put himself through college, why he thought he'd be happy with a $100 million business, and why he turned down Stripe's $1.2 billion offer. He also explains why he believes the future of banking is agentic, and why the big banks are too far behind to build it.
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What he learned about work…
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