From Lemons to $6.2BN: Airwallex’s Crazy Story
20VC with Harry Stebbings·2025-08-17 14:00
This guy went from working in a lemon factory to building a $6.2% billion fintech giant as a teenager. Jack Jang worked in a lemon factory while studying in Australia before becoming an investment banker. In 2015, he opened a coffee shop with three friends in Melbourne.But when they tried to source beans internationally, they got a hit with massive foreign exchange fees. Jack and his co-founder Max decided to start Airwalklex in 2015, building a transparent crossber payment system that they wished they exis ...