Jack Zhang

“I probably made like, you know, more than ten million dollars when I was 28, 29, and I had you know, financial security.”

“It's actually pretty easy. You know, you think about it, right? You literally just find a supplier, find a buyer, and you're not a producer. You're not a, you don't need to do any marketing. It's just B to B, right? You just, all you need to do is finding buye…”

“I don't like the everyday of the job of a CEO and I like I able to control the destiny of the company, and I ultimately answer to the outcome of the event, like the outcome of the company, the outcome of the customer the outcome of the employee, right? I wante…”

“I don't know what is financial discipline, so I don't have a budget. I'm just, like, higher as fast as possible, just blow it all up.”

“Then, like, by Monday, I got a tax message from my bank account from my bank, like, which is CBA. It's like, you got a million US dollar wire to your personal bank account. Like, obviously, I'll give her the bank account, but like, I just didn't expect that sh…”

“And, you know, I'm, you know, make 200,000 a year on my full-time job more or less. And I make, you know, two, three, four, five million dollars a year on the other side hustle as kind of that business is getting more mature.”

“I took some secondaries, not a massive amount of money, but, ah, I did.”

“I'm actually buying back the Airwaller stock myself, so I actually in the process of taking a debt of seventy million dollars to buy Airwaller secondaries.”

“The people ask, you know you know, I get burnout. I mean, I'm just, you know, working too hard and, you know, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, dude, what are you talking about? You know, do you know what is, you know, tough life looks like, you know, like me in, in…”

“I basically work like between four to 1130 and in a bar. And once that's finished, I started working a petrol station from midnight to eight AM. So I literally work 16 hour street. And that's, you know, like, Four or five days a week.”

“I hired the first a hundred people in Airworks by myself on LinkedIn.”

“I keep my job of writing code. Even I'm making 10 times the money on the site. So I never resigned.”

“So I started like probably 10 plus businesses, and what I really concluded is I don't like any of them.”

“I basically put most of the money out of the hundred million to build this new product and not investing in the existing product. And that kind of is the biggest bet I made.”

“Generally people are making decisions based on the knowledge they have, and I think generally that is not the right thing to do because what, the biggest mistake you make is from making a decision based on the knowledge you don't have.”

“You should always prioritize in what gives you the biggest leverage. The leverage on brand, the leverage on hiring that leveraging on commercial opportunities.”

“Well, I did a hundred hours a week for about 20 years, dude.”

“I made a pitch. And she's like, how much money are you raising? I'm like, oh, I'm probably going to raise a million US. And she's like, what about if I give you two million? You know, this is a girl that you met for the first time in your life and you only, yo…”

“I think when you grow up that if you taste, you know, what success looks like early, you know, whether it's spot or any type of mass competition or Olympic competition or any type of competition or any sort of team spots, the tough experience you know, when I …”

“I literally got the money, and I resigned the same day.”

“Essentially it's a complicated deal construct. Essentially it's eight hundred million on the cap table, and three hundred fifty million to me and my co-founders, and I think it's a fifty million dollar I think twenty-five million dollar to the employees, of th…”

“Michael Morris invited me to his home, tried to convince me to sell the company.”

“Only the top five make the difference. So having Sequoia makes a big difference. Huge difference.”

“At that time my real estate business is getting kind of real scale, right? You know, we start building like 40, 50 apartments, you know, 40, fifty million Aussie dollar project.”

“One of the guys running that for me was my co-founder Max Lee. He's the head of product design. He went become architect and then started the real estate business with me started the coffee shop with me and which, you know, we found the foreign change and inte…”

“I don't think I wanna, you know, like, Be doing another startup when I'm a 38. I think I'm gonna give it a shot on this one and put all my life into it.”

“If I know Stripe gonna get to a hundred billion, I mean, I will probably make, like, at least three billion dollars.”

“And my CTO Jacob, he's like one year older than me but like a hundred times smarter.”