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Jack Zhang

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Jack Zhang

@awxjack

Perfectionist. Founder & CEO of @Airwallex. 🇦🇺

London

Joined December 2017

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Jack Zhang
@awxjack
Jun 25
We’ve raised $320M at an $11B valuation, led by Addition. AI is changing how companies are built. Teams are smaller, global from day one, and using agents more. We’ve spent 10 years building the financial rails for that world. We’re now building the intelligent layer on top.
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Jack Zhang
@awxjack
Jul 26, 2025
.@grok pick one like/reply in 24 hours and I will give them a F1 McLaren paddock pass
Jack Zhang
@awxjack
Jul 29, 2025
We are fucking killing it in June. Approaching $900M ARR. Revenue up 95% YoY. We’re building the future global financial operating system and it’s compounding fast.
Jack Zhang
@awxjack
Jun 7, 2025
Investors keep asking me about stablecoin, and how that can reduce FX fees; if you send money from USD to EUR, and the receiving end still requires to receive EUR in their bank, I can’t see any ways stablecoin can reduce fees - off ramping from stablecoin to recipient currency
Jack Zhang
@awxjack
Sep 25, 2025
In the early days of Airwallex, a VC took back a term sheet after signing it. That decision cost them $1B so far.
Jack Zhang
@awxjack
Jun 16, 2025
🚀 We’ve just crossed $800M in ARR. Every milestone is a reminder that we’re just getting started.
Jack Zhang
@awxjack
Jun 11, 2025
7 years ago, my co-founders and I walked away from an 1.2B acquisition offer from ⁦⁦@stripe⁩ . It was one of the toughest calls we've had to make. Lots more work to do as we build the future of global banking. ⁦@emilymason00⁩ thanks!
How Fintech Founder Rejected Stripe Buyout Before Building $775 Million Fortune
From bloomberg.com
Jack Zhang
@awxjack
Nov 3, 2025
@airwallex is now on the other side of $1B ARR. What I love about this chart isn’t that we hit a big milestone; it’s how fast the business is accelerating. It took us more than 6 years to 100M ARR, 9 years to 500M, and only one year to double it.
Jack Zhang
@awxjack
Aug 27, 2025
In the first 5 years of @airwallex, we made a massive hiring mistake. We brought in people with impressive résumés – ex-bankers, payments veterans, people who had worked on the SWIFT network. On paper, they looked perfect. In practice, they nearly broke our culture. They had a
Jack Zhang
@awxjack
Apr 4, 2025
It took @airwallex 6 years to get to 100m ARR, we got to 500m ARR in Q324, 600 ARR is Q424, and we just exceeded 700m ARR in Q1 this year … 100m per quarter and still accelerating
Jack Zhang
@awxjack
May 21, 2025
Today we’re announcing @airwallex's 300M Series F at 6.2B valuation. This is a big step forward, and it will help us move faster in building the future of global banking.
Jack Zhang
@awxjack
Jun 16, 2025
We failed twice at @airwallex before finding product market fit, here is how we did it:
Jack Zhang
@awxjack
Aug 5, 2025
Just crossed $200B+ in annual global payment volume. No ads. No hype. Just relentless execution. @airwallex is quietly becoming the financial infrastructure powering the next generation of global businesses. IYKYK Let’s keep building. 🌍🚀
Jack Zhang
@awxjack
Jun 13, 2025
I’ve raised $1.2B over the past 9 years building @airwallex, here are the biggest lessons raising money: 1.Passion and authenticity matter more than polish — investors are human too. 2.Share your forecast, then deliver. Fewer than 10% of startups actually hit their numbers.