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Airwallex was launched by its CEO Jack Zhang and four friends after paying exorbitant foreign exchange fees for online purchases. The company, founded in Melbourne and headquartered in Hong Kong, is a global payments platform that helps businesses manage and make international payments quickly, transparently and cost-efficiently, without the constraints of the traditional financial system. Today, Airwallex is a unicorn with more than 1,400 employees across 20 locations, supporting 100,000 businesses globally. Investors include bigwigs like Sequoia Capital and Tencent. Before establishing Airwallex, Zhang worked in the banking industry and founded various businesses including an import-export company and a café; it was an attempt to buy supplies online for the latter that prompted the founding of Airwallex. Here, he shares his story. Describe what you do. Airwallex is global financial…