{"id":782165,"date":"2026-07-06T07:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/782165\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:17:13","slug":"jack-zhang-interview-airwallex-founder-discusses-global-growth-11-billion-valuation-and-the-impact-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/782165\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Zhang interview: Airwallex founder discusses global growth, $11 billion valuation and the impact of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/topic\/afr-interviews-6im7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AFR Interviews<\/a>, a video and audio series of in-depth conversations with leaders across business, finance and politics.<\/p>\n<p>Our guest is Jack Zhang, the founder and chief executive of Airwallex. Zhang has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/is-jack-zhang-the-next-elon-musk-or-just-really-really-tired-20260120-p5nvf4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">built Airwallex into a global payments giant<\/a>, which has just been valued at $US11 billion. In this interview, the CEO reflects on mistakes he made in the early days of his company and the reason he turned down a $1.2 billion offer for Airwallex in 2018. He also explains how being an \u2018outsider\u2019 fuels his ambition and why artificial intelligence is changing his plans for the company.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to AFR Interviews, a video and audio series of in-depth conversations with leaders across business, finance and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-782165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782165","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=782165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}