# Shuo Wang

> Shuo Wang is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Deel, the global payroll and workforce platform she started with MIT classmate Alex Bouaziz in 2019. An engineer who learned her earliest sales lessons selling scooters at flea markets after moving from China to the United States at 16, Wang has helped turn repeated pivots, hundreds of customer interviews and a taste for operational detail into a company valued at $17.3 billion in October 2025.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer at Deel
- **Organizations:** Deel, Aeris Cleantec AG, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Y Combinator
- **Education:** Mechanical engineering and robotics studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Winter 2019 batch, Y Combinator
- **Known for:** Helped grow Deel from $1 million to $100 million in annual recurring revenue in less than 20 months., Built and led Deel's revenue and go-to-market organization from the company's earliest stage., Co-founded two companies: Aeris Cleantec and Deel.

## Career timeline

- **Teenage years** — Moved from China to the United States at 16 and helped sell her mother's scooters and motorcycles at flea markets near Washington, D.C.
- **2009-2013** — Studied mechanical engineering and robotics at MIT, where she worked on exoskeleton research.
- **2015** — Co-founded air-purifier company Aeris Cleantec and served as chief technology officer.
- **2018** — Left Aeris and moved to San Francisco to consider her next company.
- **2019** — Entered Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch with Alex Bouaziz, pivoted toward international hiring and payroll, and co-founded Deel.
- **2021** — iRobot acquired Aeris Cleantec; financial terms were not disclosed by iRobot.
- **2022** — Deel passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, less than 20 months after reaching $1 million.
- **2024** — Forbes estimated Wang's net worth at $850 million as Deel reported more than $500 million in annual recurring revenue.
- **2025** — Deel announced a $1 billion annual revenue run rate in June and a $300 million Series E at a $17.3 billion valuation in October.
- **2026** — Wang led an internal push to give Deel's roughly 7,000 employees access to Claude and discussed building workforce systems for both people and AI agents.

## Achievements

- Helped grow Deel from $1 million to $100 million in annual recurring revenue in less than 20 months.
- Built and led Deel's revenue and go-to-market organization from the company's earliest stage.
- Co-founded two companies: Aeris Cleantec and Deel.
- Helped Deel reach a $1 billion annual revenue run rate in 2025.
- Joined Forbes' list of America's Richest Self-Made Women in 2024.
- Helped design a global operating model that served more than 35,000 customers and 1.5 million workers in over 150 countries by October 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — A Deel profile described Wang's company-wide AI push, including expanding Claude access from 100 licenses to roughly 7,000 employees in one week.
- **2026-06** — Wang appeared on Forbes' C-Suite Unscripted to discuss Deel's growth, remote operations, repeated pivots and AI adoption.
- **2025-10** — Deel raised a $300 million Series E at a $17.3 billion valuation after surpassing $1 billion in annual recurring revenue.
- **2025-06** — Deel announced that it had reached a $1 billion annual revenue run rate, with 35,000 customers and 1.25 million workers across more than 150 countries.

## Links

- Website: https://www.deel.com/leadership-team/shuo-wang/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuooo
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/shuooo
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExoQOtqtxX0

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Last updated: 2026-09-26