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Last night we closed out SF @Techweek_ in an epic way.
25+ events all week across the city. Everything built to one moment: Deel After Dark.
Our marquee event – a room full of investors, founders, customers, partners building the future. That’s where real conversations happen.
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🏀 Deel is now the official HR and Payroll Partner for the @warriors!
Champions are built on precision, systems that work, and on the details that matter more than anyone realizes.
Golden State gets that, and so do we. Proud to partner with a team that wins the right way.
Excited to invite you all to amazing games, and perhaps see you courtside 👀
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I grew up watching the @warriors. @deel is proud to be the official payroll partner to them. They are my favorite team of all time! My American Dream coming true!
Since I was 12 years old it was my dream to be up close with the team!
Go Warriors! 💜⚡️🏀
🏀 Deel is now the official HR and Payroll Partner for the @warriors!
Champions are built on precision, systems that work, and on the details that matter more than anyone realizes.
Golden State gets that, and so do we. Proud to partner with a team that wins the right way.
Excited to invite you all to amazing games, and perhaps see you courtside 👀
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EXCLUSIVE: The Sales Machine Behind $17.3B Deel
Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (@shuooo)
$1M → $100M → $1B → $1.5B+ ARR
I sat down with Shuo in the South of France to break down the *sales machine* behind one of tech’s fastest-growing companies.
@deel stats:
› $1.5B+ in revenue
› $17.3B valuation (Ribbit, Coatue, a16z)
› 40,000+ customers
› 15 acquisitions
› Launched Akai, its AI agent platform
(Rumors a crazy new ai product launching soon 👀)
Deel added >$140M ARR in 90 days without increasing headcount by automating~600 Full Time Employees' equivalent in work with Akai
Shuo co-founded Deel alongside Alex Bouaziz (@Bouazizalex), Co-Founder & CEO, in 2019. They built Deel as a global company from day 1. Today, the company helps businesses hire, manage & pay teams around the world.
We also get into:
› Why Shuo thinks founders simply aren't selling enough
› Building & incentivizing a remote sales organization across 120 countries
› How an MIT-trained robotics engineer became CRO
› Shuo and Alex's founder dynamic, going global from day one
› What she's learned from James Dyson & Jeff Bezos
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Shuo Wang, Co-Founder & CRO at Deel
(00:41) How Deel went from $100M to $1B ARR in 3 years
(02:43) Why Deel went global from day one
(03:36) Who uses Deel? From ElevenLabs to Chanel
(04:16) Hot take
(05:15) Why sales is really about systems
(06:18) How to build a winning remote sales team
(07:48) Going global with Snoop Dogg
(08:34) How Shou & Alex divide roles
(09:23) The founder who inspired Shuo
(10:24) The Bezos mindset
(11:36) NEW Hot take
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Most companies struggle to get 50 qualified resumes for an open role.
@deel and @drbombaysnax managed to pull in 350,000 global applications which means this is officially one of the most competitive job postings in history.
If you make the Top 50 for @SnoopDogg 's ice cream taster role, you should genuinely put that at the absolute top of your resume. 🍦🙌 👑
Live look at our application review. 👀🍦
350,000+ of you applied to be @realdrbombay's International Ice Cream Taster. Every one is getting a look, and our Top 50 is almost here.
Keep an eye on your inboxes, the next scoop is coming soon. 💌
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Observe the art of the @deel.
And they came with receipts 💅
Keep reading to find out how it's done.
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EXCITED TO LAUNCH: Akai (akai.run)
Deel added >$140M ARR in 90 days without increasing headcount by automating~600 Full Time Employees' equivalent in work with Akai.
Akai was an internal tool to automate our painfully repetitive operations in Finance, HR, Accounts Payable, and Compliance, etc. We never intended to make this a product.
But we watched revenue per employee grow from $130K to $215K
We built >8k agents that do the work of ~600 employees
It had such a dramatic impact on our business that today we are launching it for everyone.
How it works: Say you're automating payment reconciliation:
1. Record your screen while manually matching a messy transaction and Akai will capture your screen, voice, server requests
2. Akai will see that you pulled unformatted wire transfer info from an archaic bank portal, put it in some excel sheet, checked NetSuite invoices, payment history, and put a ticket on Zendesk
3. Akai reads between the lines and build a workflow + steps + conditional guardrails. It learns tacit edge cases, like resolving malformed invoice references without you writing a single regex
4. Simply connect NetSuite, your ledger, Zendesk, PSPs, and even legacy bank portals with zero API access
5. Run the workflow and tell it what to adjust in plain English: "strip slashes on wire memos and auto-apply partial payments." It adapts instantly
6. Once it works for you, add 100s of colleagues. Your entire payment ops team forks and extends the workflow for new PSPs, secondary ledgers, or regional settlement rules
7. We automated 85% of our payment reconciliation end to end, eliminating 500+ hours of soul-crushing manual grunt work every single week.
Claude Code/Codex can't do this in multiplayer mode. Every person rebuilds the same skill from scratch in their own way.
Deel built Akai to:
1. Understand backend operations edge cases (it had to work for our 7000 person team first)
2. Collaborative across 1000s of employees
3. Self-Learning from millions of runs
4. Optimises cost and gets cheaper every run
We're so confident that we're announcing an Automation Guarantee:
If our engineers can't automate a thousand of hours of work in your first 30 days, you get a full refund.
Book a demo: akai.run if you're an exec at a company with hundreds of employees
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Snoop Dogg Is Hiring an Ice Cream Taster & It Pays $10k a Month
billboard.com/music/rb-hip-h…
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Snoop Dogg Is Now Hiring An "International Ice Cream Taster" For His Ice Cream Brand — Reportedly Paying $10k A Month.
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Snoop Dogg is hiring an ice cream taste tester. 🍦
The rapper and the Dr. Bombay ice cream brand are teaming up with Deel to find an official international taste tester and yes, the job is fully remote and pays $10,000 a month.
The three-month gig will have the lucky hire tracking global food and flavor trends, taste-testing dairy-based ice cream, creating social content and helping shape future flavors and marketing ideas.
And the best part? Anyone anywhere in the world can apply. 👀
Think you have what it takes to be Dr. Bombay’s official taste tester? Apply at: billboard.com/music/rb-hip-h…
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Hold on now!!!! I’m hiring an international ice-cream taster 😅🧊🔥🫵🏿❗️ $10K per month. U can apply from anywhere in the world. Applications open 👇🏿
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Here since chapter one. Forever Arsenal 📖❤️
Shop our 26/27 away jersey, available now 🔗
🤝 @adidasfootball
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A different kind of connection ❤️
The 26/27 @adidasfootball Home Kit comes with a limited-edition NFC collectible card, only available via Arsenal Direct and in-store.
Shop now 👇
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Big one: Product Hunt is teaming up with The Pitch by @deel, a global startup competition where up to 100 winners get $50k and up to 10 get $1M+.
Make the cut and show up on special Product Hunt leaderboards (first event is April 13).
Apply below 👇
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BREAKING: @deel Hits $1.4B+ ARR
Co-founded by CEO Alex Bouaziz (@Bouazizalex) & CRO Shuo Wang (@shuooo), Alex shares their hypergrowth playbook..
Founded in 2019, at only 7 years old:
- Deel has scaled to $1.4B+ ARR
- Reached a $17.3B valuation
- 40K+ customers across 150+ countries
- 3+ years of being profitable
Deel has rapidly become the #1 platform for hiring & paying employees worldwide.
We discuss:
• Scaling Deel to $1.4B+ ARR
• Serving 40K+ companies across 150+ countries
• Deel’s 10+ acquisition M&A strategy
• Building a profitable hypergrowth SaaS company
• The future of global hiring & distributed teams
• How AI agents will transform the workforce
Recent Financing:
Oct 2025, Deel announced a $300 million Series E funding round, valuing the company at $17.3 billion co-led by Ribbit Capital (@RibbitCapital) as a new investor, alongside long-time partners Andreessen Horowitz (@a16z) & Coatue Management (@coatuemgmt).
This was filmed in London February 12, 2026
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Alex Bouaziz, Co-Founder & CEO at Deel
(02:05) Working with co-founder & CRO Shuo Wang
(03:54) What Deel actually does
(05:05) Biggest customers
(05:54) $17B valuation and latest funding round
(06:35) How Deel approaches fundraising
(07:50) Hitting $100M ARR and early growth
(09:25) Why raise money if you are already profitable?
(10:35) Inside the latest funding round
(12:03) Why payroll is a huge global opportunity
(14:21) How Deel expanded its product stack
(15:21) The challenges of hiring globally
(16:18) Running a 7,000 person fully remote company
(18:29) Tips for building remote teams
(19:50) Why Deel went global from day one
(22:47) How AI is changing hiring
(25:00) Deel’s moat in an AI world
(26:19) A question from Micky Malka
(26:57) From airlines to oil and gas: who uses Deel
(27:58) M&A strategy and integration playbook
(34:33) Biggest mistakes companies make with acquisitions
(35:56) How to retain founders after acquisitions
(36:34) Deel's new CFO
(39:09) What it takes to be IPO ready
(40:29) How AI could affect Deel’s future
(42:55) The "Dubai founder controversy"
(46:00) Leading in a competitive market
(50:47) The biggest misconception about Deel
(53:27) The right people around you
(56:51) The "default optimism"
(58:33) What’s next for Deel
(01:01:05) The future of autonomous agents
(01:03:35) Biggest lessons from Shuo
(01:06:34) What makes a great salesperson
(01:08:32) Partnering with Arsenal
