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Airwallex’s Lucy Liu: How a career break and coffee turned into a $3.4 billion business – The Australian Financial Review
The Melbourne cafe that Lucy Liu used to hang out at has produced three Young Rich listers and a company now worth billions.
When I visited Max and Jack, they just threw this idea at me. Jack was looking for investment and I knew more investors than him at the time … I thought it was something worth committing my time to as well. Liu admits it was a benefit of her youth that she had nothing to lose.
But with a valuation now of $US2.6 billion ($3.4 billion) and hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from some of the worlds top VCs, including Sequoia Capital China, Horizons Ventures, DST Global and most recently Greenoaks,…
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