Interview

December 12, 2019

The Scot who helped turn Peter Thiel-backed startup Xero into a €7bn business

Gary Turner, a 51-year-old college drop out, has helped accounting software provider Xero to grow into a €7bn business.


Sam Shead

4 min read

Gary Turner took a big risk in 2009 when he left his cushy product director job at Microsoft to join a New Zealand startup called Xero that next to no one in Europe had heard of.

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