This 🧵is the quintessential immigrant founder story, one I resonate with personally and am deeply proud to be a part of. Congrats @awxjack and the entire Airwallex team!
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:
Life update: Last year, I moved from Silicon Valley to Melbourne and joined the most outrageously ambitious startup I've ever known, but that you probably haven't heard of (yet).
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.
Hey friends. Now that we've wound down Hometown, I’m excited to get back to collaborating with teams on product strategy, management, and design. So get in touch and let's ship great stuff together! https://t.co/rAoWYlDhHJ
With these letters, Georgia’s entire Republican Congressional delegation+state Republican Party are all pushing - without any specific evidence - that there are irregularities that cloud the state’s election AND somehow only affected 3 GOP candidates that didn’t win/win outright.
What we're seeing from Trump and his allies today is an autocratic attempt. It's not a competent one, and it probably won't be an effective one. But that's what it is. And far worse would follow if it succeeded. https://t.co/t66o0mTPuK
@arctictony@megnut@iamdeepa The work to forgive and offer compassion to those who have harmed us is worthwhile. It unburdens the psyche when justice is unavailable. But this is an active shooter situation. He’s causing harm from his hospital bed. And he’ll be more dangerous than even once he’s out.
@arctictony@iamdeepa “Donald Trump is a human first” is incorrect. He is the most powerful and dangerous human on the planet. And he’s chosen to use that power to debirately cause incalculable suffering. I take no pleasure in his diagnosis, but I won’t waste my compassion.