He now works as a registered foreign lawyer for Stripe, a digital payments company (valued earlier this year at $55 billion), supporting the in-person payments team. Matthew Yee had several opportunities to follow the conventional path and move to London to practise at a major firm, but his interest in the future of tech drew him elsewhere.Īt age 28, he left a job at Minter Ellison in Sydney to work for Clifford Chance in Singapore, before jumping into the thriving Singapore startup space.