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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…

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József Váradi grew up in Soviet‑controlled Hungary, where his father was imprisoned for participating in the 1956 revolution and later struggled to find steady work, while his mother took factory shifts to support the family. Decades later, Váradi founded Wizz Air, which now operates flights roughly once a minute worldwide.

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