From Coffee Shop to $8 Billion

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0:00Feels a bit unreal, right? But within 12 months and you went from almost no business to, you know,

0:06$1.2 billion dollar acquisition offers and it's only three years into the entrepreneur journey.

0:10And at that time, we only had $2 million revenue so,

0:12it's a pretty bold decision not not to proceed with the offer.

0:16In 2018, Stripe offered to buy Airwallex for $1.2 billion dollars. They said no.

0:22Seven years later, the company is now worth $8 billion dollars and has

0:26customers all over the world, including Shein, Brex, McLaren Racing, and more.

0:33But it wasn't all smooth sailing. Before the billion-dollar offers and the big-name

0:37partnerships, Jack worked 16-hour days just to stay afloat. Factory work,

0:42bartending, and overnight shifts at petrol stations

0:44were all means of survival when his family could no longer support him.

0:48Basically have to wake up 5:00 in the morning, take the first train,

0:52then took a bus for close to hour, then walk for another 30 minutes to the lemon farm.

0:57I just packed them up, do that for 12 hours a day.

1:00And in the summer, it's 40° Celsius and it's uh pretty intense.

1:06That work ethic took him far. By his 30s, he made millions

1:10from side businesses, but something was missing.

1:12I always wanted to find something where no one needs to ever wake me

1:16up and I will be up every day and feel extremely passionate and motivated and

1:21then willing to devote my my entire sort of life to it.

1:25I think Airwallex is probably the the one that really kind of get me to that stage.

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