Jack Zhang kept coding job while making 10x salary on side businesses
Jack Zhang · Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · May 26, 2025 · at 17:41
Airwallex co-founder and CEO Jack Zhang discusses his early career trajectory before founding the payments unicorn.
0:00 / 0:05exact quote · 5.9s
▶ Watch the full episode on YouTube → 720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“I keep my job of writing code. Even I'm making 10 times the money on the site. So I never resigned.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →