Be a platform, w/Shopify's Tobi Lütke
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The secret to massive scale? Be a platform. Build a virtuous cycle where everyone wins, and you’ll emerge the biggest winner of all. This is what Tobi Lütke did when he built Shopify – and then opened it up to the world. Cameo appearances by: Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt (Google), Julia Hartz (Eventbrite), and Gustav Söderström (Spotify).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now, |
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| 0:31.2 | I'll see you on the other side. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to |
| 0:37.0 | The Blitz Scale Zone. Meet 8-year-old Archer-Bald Tea Winnie Maker the 3rd. |
| 0:55.0 | You're about to hear him take his first confidence step into the world of entrepreneurship. |
| 1:01.0 | His launch pad? Why, it's that time-worn gateway. The lemonade stand. |
| 1:08.4 | Come and get your lemonade, fresh lemonade here. |
| 1:11.1 | Hi, Archie. Enter Loretta Love Good. I'm Enter, |
| 1:13.0 | Loretta Love Good, 7 and 3 quarters. |
| 1:16.0 | Is that lemonade? |
| 1:18.0 | Looks delicious. |
| 1:19.0 | Say, my mom just baked some fresh cookies. |
| 1:22.0 | Maybe I could tell them from your stand. |
| 1:24.0 | Then we can both make money and bring even more sweetness into our customers' lives. |
| 1:28.0 | Now, witness how Archibald takes his first misstep. |
| 1:33.0 | No way, Scram! This is my stand! Go find your own! |
| 1:38.0 | As Archibald grew into adulthood, so that Lemonade stand grew to a lemonade store. |
| 1:47.0 | Then a statewide lemonade franchise. |
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