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Shannon Scott: SVP & Global Head of Product, Airwallex
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Published 25th June, 2025.
Shannon Scott is the Senior Vice President, Global Head of Product at Airwallex, and Executive Director of Airwallex's Australia and New Zealand business entities. Shannon is responsible for Airwallex's product strategy and roadmap, spanning financial infrastructure, business software, and embedded finance solutions. Prior to Airwallex, Shannon was an early employee of Palantir Technologies, where he founded Palantir's international operations and business development in ANZ and Europe.
This is Shannon's first ever in-depth interview.
It’s time to explore your curiosity. Please enjoy.
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It’s now time to explore your curiosity.
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In this conversation, Shannon reveals how:
▪️ Growing up in Bright, Victoria — with 15 classmates and a dad who taught him maths shaped his early lens
▪️ Skiing trumped school until a last-minute uni offer led to Melbourne and engineering
▪️ A chance encounter steered him into a 7-person pricing software startup before “startup” was a thing
▪️ He met Palantir’s president at a New Year’s party and became their first non-US hire
▪️ He built Palantir’s Australia, Europe, and US ops from scratch: reviewing government contracts, hiring teams, and explaining API quirks to spies
▪️ Why failure was essential to product-market fit and why honesty beat salesmanship every time
▪️ He hires for three things: deep tech skills, clear business thinking, and sharp communication
▪️ Inside Airwallex: keeping a startup mindset at scale, building product across 3 regions
▪️ The phrase he uses most as a leader (“I don’t know”) and the logic behind it
▪️ How paper, pen, and daily lists beat fancy tools in his productivity system
and lots more!
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