GLOBAL

Coming from Romania was an advantage. We didn't have Silicon Valley overhead. We could build enterprise software at a fraction of the cost while the market matured.

We built Adyen because payments were broken. Every country had different systems, different rules, different failures. We said: one platform, everywhere.

Uber, Microsoft, and Booking.com use Flutterwave to accept payments in Africa. Five years ago, they couldn't accept a single naira. We unlocked an entire continent for global commerce.

I'm Chinese-born, educated at Stanford, building a company headquartered in Singapore that serves 700 million people across Southeast Asia, Latin America, and India. This is what globalization actually looks like.

Pinduoduo made shopping social in China. Temu is taking that model global. Group buying, gamification, prices so low they feel illegal. The formula works everywhere because saving money is universal.

We are fully remote with team members in over 40 countries. We did not become remote because of COVID. We were remote because the best open-source contributors are not all in San Francisco.

I was born in China, grew up in Canada, worked in Japan, and built a company with no headquarters that operates everywhere. I am not from anywhere. I am from the internet. Binance is from the internet.

People call us copycats. I call us efficient resource allocators. If a business model works in America, why wouldn't it work in Brazil or Indonesia? The only question is who gets there first.

Estonia has 1.3 million people. You cannot build a unicorn serving Estonia. We had to think global from day one.

I invest globally because the next Facebook will not necessarily come from Palo Alto. It might come from Beijing or Bangalore.

We started in Copenhagen. Now DAI is used in 100 countries. Decentralized money does not have a headquarters.

We started in Chile. Now we sell in 10 countries. Latin American startups can compete globally. We are proof.

Hiring someone in Jakarta should be as easy as hiring someone in San Jose. We make that possible.

Employment law is different in every single country. We maintain compliance in 150+. That's our moat.

Operating in both the US and China gives us twice the data and twice the regulatory learning.

$1 billion in annual revenue from a single puzzle game made in Istanbul. Geography is not destiny.

In rural Africa, there are no ultrasound machines. There are smartphones. That's our market.

Being a digital nomad isn’t a lifestyle choice. It’s an investing strategy. I see markets that Bay Area VCs never visit.

Barcelona gave us three things Silicon Valley couldn't: multilingual talent, lower costs, and a reminder that business travel is a global problem, not an American one.

Italy knows how to make beautiful things. My job was to make sure beautiful things reached every corner of the world.

Build in India, sell to the world. The engineering talent here is as good as anywhere on Earth.