Meet Wizz Air’s CEO—his father was jailed under Soviet rule. Now, he’s on $4.4 million a year and would ‘rather keep building than sit on a beach’

Growing up in Soviet-controlled Hungary, Wizz Air founder József Váradi was born into a family still paying for his father’s role in the 1956 revolution — jailed, then frozen out of steady work for years, while his mother took factory shifts to keep them afloat. Six decades later, he’s running an airline that takes off somewhere in the world roughly once a minute. “My father’s experience gave me a healthy skepticism about taking things for granted. It showed me how quickly circumstances can change and how important it is to remain adaptable.

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