| Net Worth: | $23 Billion |
|---|---|
| Gender: | Male |
| Profession: | Businessperson |
| Nationality: | Switzerland |
What is Guillaume Pousaz’s net worth? How does Guillaume Pousaz make his money? Below is the current net worth of Guillaume Pousaz and how Guillaume Pousaz makes his money.
What is Guillaume Pousaz’s Net Worth?
Guillaume Pousaz is a Swiss billionaire businessman and owner of the payment platform Checkout.com who has a net worth of 23 billion.
Childhood
Guillaume Pousaz was born in 1981 in Geneva, Switzerland. Pousaz earned a degree in mathematical engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique FĂ©dĂ©rale de Lausanne before enrolling at HEC Lausanne for a bachelor’s in economics.
When Pousaz’s father was diagnosed with cancer in 2005, he decided to leave school and abandon his primary goal of becoming an investment banker. Then he relocated to California so that he could learn to surf.
Career
Pousaz began working with International Payments Consultants (IPC), a payments company, in 2006. He later quit starting his own company. In collaboration with the IPC head of sales, Pousaz founded NetMerchant in 2007, a service for sending money from the US to Europe. Until 2009, the business was active.
Pousaz paid $300,000 over three years in 2009 to acquire Mauritius-based SMS Pay. 2009 saw the establishment of Opus Payments in Singapore by Pousaz, allowing companies in Hong Kong to accept payments from clients all around the world.
In 2012, Checkout.com took the place of Opus Payments after a rebranding. The goal of the business’s founding was to assist customers and merchants with the issue of online payment processing. 2019 saw a $230 million investment round for Checkout.com.
For a European fintech business, this was the largest Series A funding round ever at the time. An additional $450 million was raised by Checkout.com in January 2021 at a US$15 billion valuation. Pousaz’s net worth was consequently pegged by Forbes at $9 billion.
With an estimated two-thirds ownership of Checkout.com, Pousaz serves as the company’s CEO. In May 2021, Pousaz founded Zinial Growth, a personal investment business. When Checkout.com was valued at $40 billion in January 2022 following a $1 billion fundraising effort, Pousaz’s net worth was calculated to be around $20 billion.
His projected net worth of ÂŁ19.259 billion ranked him fifth in the Sunday Times Rich List 2022 ranking of the wealthiest persons in the UK.
Relationship
Pousaz is married to a mother of three who resides in Dubai (two sons and a daughter).
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