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Currently a producer at CNBC's Fast Money, contributor at NextShark. Based out of New York, sometimes San Francisco.

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He turned down $1.2 billion from Stripe. Now his company is worth $8 billion

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By Ernestine Siu
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In 2018, Stripe offered to buy fintech company Airwallex for $1.2 billion. They said no. Seven years later, the company is worth $8 billion and serves over 200,000 customers globally. Jack Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Airwallex, helped build one of the world's fastest-growing fintech companies, now valued at $8 billion and generating more than $1 billion in annual recurring revenue. Born in Qingdao, China, Zhang moved to Australia alone at 15.
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He left his seven-figure banking career to sell bubble tea–today, his company brings in over $500 million a year

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By Ernestine Siu
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Ernestine Siu When Martin Berry quit his lucrative banking job in late 2013 to go all-in on selling bubble tea, his boss thought he was "insane." At the time, Berry was in his 30s and had spent much of his career working in senior executive roles, managing multi-trillion dollar balance sheets, he said. However, he found that over time, the big paychecks no longer fulfilled him. "I realized after working hard for quite a long period of time that I didn't really like the corporate system.
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He quit banking to sell bubble tea — now it’s a global empire that makes over $500 million a year Original

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By Ernestine Siu
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Martin Berry turned Gong Cha from a small Taiwanese tea franchise into a global bubble tea brand with more than 2,000 stores. Martin Berry, founder and chairman of Gong Cha Global, helped turn a small Taiwanese tea franchise into one of the world's largest bubble tea chains, now with more than 2,000 locations in 30 countries. Gong Cha was founded in 1996 by Zhen-hua Wu in Taiwan, but it wasn't until 2011 that Berry encountered the brand in a Singapore mall and recognized its broader potential.
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