Alex

Principal @ Airwallex

[Jack Zhang @awxjack]

A big milestone for Airwallex. With our US broker-dealer licence, we’re bringing Airwallex Yield to the US - giving businesses a simple, liquid way to put idle USD to work. 🇺🇸

[Alex @lexevs]

9.5 years for me personally. Would I live through it all over again? In a heartbeat

[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:

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

People overestimate the productivity gains from checklists, apps, and fancy timers and underestimate the effectiveness of a dark room, ear plugs, and an endless supply of stimulants.

[Alex @lexevs]

@airwallex If you want to know what the early days were like, watch this https://t.co/xPxsQkTQnm

[Alex @lexevs]

This is crazy. I was randomly doomscrolling and found this photo of the most pivotal moment of my life on @airwallex’s social media.

This is me straight out of the interview over 9 years ago. Next to me is @awxjack talking about how far he thinks the company will go.

[Alex @lexevs]

@airwallex is now:
* ~ 2 thousand employees
* > 60 global banking licences
* > 25 offices
* a swiss army knife of financial products
* US $6.2 billion valuation

[Alex @lexevs]

hey t̶w̶i̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ X, been a while

[Alex @lexevs]

@intyakova Случайно наткнулся на тред. Вот официальное заявление https://t.co/dBJNd5TRCi
Насколько я понимаю, не для всех. Сам в ожидании :/

[Alex @lexevs]

@gAmUssA Well deserved! ��

[Alex @lexevs]

@Ticketmaster_AU The tickets I purchased are not showing up in my acc, the event is tonight and your support line is busy, can you help?

[Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlin]

The Kotlin Census 2018 is out. Take the survey and help the team to understand how you use Kotlin in 2018 or what needs to be done to help you use it in 2019. Tell the World!
https://t.co/KvROmwQO1E

[Alex @lexevs]

@behrangsa Lol I’ll pass it on to “that guy” 😉

[Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlin]

Kotlin 1.3 M2 is here!!!
https://t.co/x2U2P9zf9d

[Alex @lexevs]

@touzoku Типичная банковская практика, кстати :) Во многих странах встречал

[Alex @lexevs]

Buy a drone in Shanghai speaking Chinese - ✅ understand “do you want your muffin warmed up” in Starbucks - ❌

[Roman Elizarov @relizarov]

kotlinx.coroutines version 0.25.0 is released. It has reworked/consistent/documented exception handling model, convenient thread-locals for coroutines, SLF4J MDC integration, and more. See https://t.co/cF3UVWrP7w

[justin @jusrin00]

still the weirdest video i've ever seen about a programming language https://t.co/D0AxBJhGCo

[Changelog @changelog]

Trying to learn Git and Vim at the same time