Startup burnout complaints show a lack of real hardship perspective
Jack Zhang · Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · May 26, 2025 · at 9:09
Airwallex Co-Founder and CEO Jack Zhang reflects on how growing up in severe financial distress makes typical tech burnout complaints seem ungrounded.
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“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, in, in Australia, especially, you know, it's a very sort of, wealthy country in, in general, and, you know, there's less people have experienced these tough things in life, and generally people have a different perspective what life is, right?”
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