{"id":534641,"date":"2026-03-12T03:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/534641\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T03:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:09:11","slug":"how-xero-ceo-angad-soin-is-bracing-to-survive-the-saaspocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/534641\/","title":{"rendered":"How Xero CEO Angad Soin is bracing to survive the SaaSpocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 12, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>Angad Soin says hard work is in his blood. The 39-year-old managing director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/xero-s-4b-melio-acquisition-weighs-down-investors-despite-profit-jump-20251110-p5n934\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xero in Australia and New Zealand<\/a>, who doubles as the $14 billion company\u2019s global chief strategy officer, came from India as a baby and says hard work was fundamental to his family\u2019s new life in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>It is equally fundamental to Soin\u2019s family back in his country of birth. He regularly visits his grandfather, who still runs a business in India, making the machines that make ball bearings.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 12, 2026 \u2013 5.00am Angad Soin says hard work is in his blood. The 39-year-old managing director&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-534641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}