Xero’s US efforts starting to add up

Xero’s US efforts starting to add up
Anna Curzon said that while Xero is an “alternative in the US”, they've worked hard to deliver on customer feedback.
Ben Moore
Xero has grown massively over the last two years which has landed it firmly in the ‘winners’ camp of the digital acceleration driven by the covid-19 pandemic.At the opening keynote of Xero’s 2022 conference for Asia Pacific, chief executive Steve Vamos said the cloud accounting provider has increased its number of subscriptions since 2019 from 1.8 million to 3.3m and its number of employees from 2,500 to 4,700 worldwide.Now, having taken Australasia by storm and growing apace in the UK, it's doubling down on the notoriousl...

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