Alex Bouaziz, Co-founder and CEO of Deel and Shuo Wang, Co-founder and chief revenue officer of Deel. Photos: Courtesy company; Getty Images This story was updated to include statements from Deel.

Wang refuses to play by the old rules -- or by any rules at all, apart from his own. The 37-year-old writer describes himself as a pize, a near-untranslatable term that is halfway between hooligan and ...