Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home.

I'm Brian McCullough.

As you're about to hear, I've really wanted to do a deep dive episode discussion on Shopify and how they're suddenly

the big up-and-coming potential tech behemoth, arguably the most successful tech IPO of the last five years,

seemingly the only company that can challenge Amazon in e-commerce.

So when James McCloud from the Financial Post got in touch

wanting to talk about Shopify it was like

someone was reading my mind you'll see why I've found Shopify's story so

interesting lately because well actually we get right into it.

Please enjoy.

Crazy, weird times, man.

Well, also though, I mean, thank God, I've wanted to do something on Shopify because it's weird and maybe I'll even

we'll get into this for the thing.

But like Shopify is clearly gonna be potentially one of the big players now but there's never been a story that I could

like hang a segment on you know what I mean so like I'm so happy to do this because I want to like alert the audience hey these guys are the big up and comer

But I haven't had a way to do it yet well, and it's weird. I don't know if you've taken a look at their stock price but it's I mean and if you

want to sort of turn on a recorder and start getting into it yeah okay consider

us going at this point.

Oh, okay. So like if their their stock just hit like this crazy all-time high,

the market cap is, in Canadian dollars it's just above a hundred billion now, which obviously...

I just checked it's 73 billion US as of the time of this recording and and so like I mean every

Every stock on the market has gone through wild swings in the last month or so but like in early March the

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