Matthieu Guibert

Corp Dev & Investor Relations @Airwallex

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

My conversation with @ZBrownCEO, CEO of @McLarenF1, on how to build a winning team.

00:00 Intro
01:51 From F1 to CEO
04:43 Fixing culture first
07:15 Starting with the fan
08:52 Picking the right partners
11:20 Designing for performance
14:16 Making work worth showing up for
16:38 Building a winning mindset
17:30 How race weekend runs
19:37 Deciding with data
21:30 Where AI fits
23:47 The power of marginal gains
24:49 Staying hungry after success

[Lance @lancectk]

Our team at @t0finance is growing.

We’re hiring for several roles in San Francisco:

→ Product Lead
→ Senior AI Engineer
→ Staff Product Designer
→ Staff Backend Engineer, AI
→ & more

We’re building a new kind of finance platform that understands how a business works, automates complex workflows end-to-end, and helps finance teams spend less time chasing numbers.

This is hard, high-stakes work across AI agents, orchestration, financial data, accounting logic, and production infrastructure.

If that sounds fun, we’d love to talk.

[Airwallex @airwallex]

👏 Big thanks to @NYSE for celebrating our Series H milestone!

Grateful to everyone who’s been part of it — our customers, partners, investors, and team!

Read more about our next chapter 👉 https://t.co/7xJ4tsQgIa

[Matthieu Guibert @MatthieuGuibert]

@irvincsha @airwallex @t0finance Always great and fun working with you! And I’ll add “friend” to colleague and partner! 😉

[Matthieu Guibert @MatthieuGuibert]

@Airwallex just raised $320M at an $11B valuation.
But the number isn't the story. The story is what we're building on top of ten years of real financial infrastructure.
@t0finance. Airi. Autonomous finance. Agentic commerce.
The foundation was always built for this moment.

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

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.

[Loong @bzlwang]

Hello, world. After a little time away, I am stoked to announce that I am back…

and teaming up with the amazing @cclayporter to build @metalntwx: the global settlement network for the future of regulated, tokenized, agentic finance.

Six months ago to the day, I was introduced to @awxjack. What started as a discussion about stablecoins has since expanded to a much bigger vision: global infrastructure for tokenized financial products.

Now, I am excited to share that @airwallex and Capital49 have co-led our seed round, and as part of its investment, Airwallex has joined Metal as our first design partner.

Airwallex will bring the most extensive network of local payment rails — covering 200 countries and 90 currencies — to tokenized financial products: stablecoins, tokenized bank deposits, money markets, securities, and much more.

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

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.

[Airwallex @airwallex]

A new chapter for Airwallex. Coming soon.

[Matthieu Guibert @MatthieuGuibert]

@dankimxyz @airwallex Welcome to the team Dan!

[Shannon Scott @scott_shannon]

We’ve shipped a lot of meaningful improvements to our AI assistant since it launched in February.

It now understands your business context, helps you onboard faster, and takes actions across 100+ tools and workflows.

At that point, “AI assistant” felt too small.

So we named it Kai.

[Airwallex @airwallex]

Agentic commerce isn't coming, it's already here.

On June 25, we are bringing together the operators, builders, and infrastructure leaders shaping the future of AI-powered payments and commerce.

@scott_shannon, CPO of Airwallex, will open the evening, followed by a panel with speakers from @Visa, @Google, @AnthropicAI and @cursor_ai on what it takes to make agentic commerce work in the real world, from trust and orchestration to payments infrastructure at scale.

Request your invite for drinks, networking, and insights from the people building what's next 👉🏼 https://t.co/B1HaqrYZNv

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

For the past several months, @Airwallex has been the subject of false allegations originating with a board member of a direct competitor that include wild conspiracy theories about me. Today I am responding directly with facts and an independent security assessment that speaks for itself.

I also want to use this moment to introduce Airwallex properly. We are a decade into building financial infrastructure that gives American businesses the ability to compete and win globally. That work continues.

I was born in China. I arrived in Melbourne at fifteen with little English and no safety net. Australia gave me the education, the opportunity, and the freedom to build something. The United States represents that same promise, perhaps more powerfully than anywhere else on earth. We plan to keep building here.

https://t.co/GCn5qvkWko

[Matthieu Guibert @MatthieuGuibert]

Exciting news: @Airwallex has acquired @Leapfin to help global finance teams close their books faster and with confidence.
Leapfin's revenue automation logic combined with our global infrastructure connects money movement to financial operations end to end. Welcome to the team @raymond_lau !

Read more: https://t.co/0BUcGv3whN

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

Excited to announce that @airwallex has acquired @leapfin.

The Leapfin team has built one of the strongest platforms for turning complex transaction data into clean, auditable financial records.

Their product solves a real pain point for modern finance teams, and we’re excited to bring their technology and expertise into Airwallex.

Excited to welcome @raymond_lau, @eya0 and the entire Leapfin team to Airwallex and build what comes next together.

[Matthieu Guibert @MatthieuGuibert]

Airwallex Billing is up and running and built into the same platform that already runs your payments, spend management, cards and business accounts.

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

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[Matthieu Guibert @MatthieuGuibert]

Love the parallel. It all started with a spark.

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

Most fintech companies started in the world's biggest markets and expanded outward.

Most were built in Silicon Valley, with Silicon Valley assumptions.

We started on the other side of the world, in a Melbourne coffee shop.

Outsiders, by every measure.

So we went deeper than anyone wanted to. Reimagining correspondent banking from first principles, not abstracting away the old system but replacing it.

Years of obtaining licenses, building infrastructure, and shipping every financial product a growing business needs including intelligent finance.

Bank accounts in 70+ countries. Treasury across 25+ currencies. Cards, spend management, bill pay, multi-entity, all on one platform.

Built so the whole world feels like your home market.

Now AI means the builders are everywhere.

Global financial infrastructure has always been the hard part.

Ours took eleven years to build, and it's ready for you on day one.

Build the Future ↓

[Matthieu Guibert @MatthieuGuibert]

Quite an amazing story and we are just getting started...here's to the next decade!

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue.

Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR.

We could've died three times during this journey.

This is the story I've never told anyone before: