Tobi Lütke on Shopify’s impact on the creator economy, COVID forcing focus, early Internet breakthroughs, evolving as a remote manager & much more | E1184

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Check out Shopify: https://www.shopify.com
FOLLOW Tobi: https://twitter.com/tobi
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1:04.1	Startups we've got a huge treat for you Toby from Shopify is back on the
1:09.0	program I'm not sure when you were last on the program but I know we were up
1:12.1	at your HQ in Ottawa. Ottawa right and this was 2000 I like 2000
1:20.4	13 I have here yeah August of 2013 episode 375 you were not a public
1:26.3	company yeah I don't know how many what was the footprint of Shopify back in 2013
1:30.6	oh that's hard to say like less than a hundred people maybe yeah something
1:36.0	about rare yeah and we just sat in the lobby of it's like 200 something like
1:41.0	it was but small smaller and at the time this was a kind of a you had a very
1:48.2	strange thesis if I remember correctly the idea was Amazon would not win it
1:54.4	all and merchants would want to have a direct relationships with their
1:58.5	customers and that if you focused like a maniac on servicing those stores you
2:06.5	might be able to build you know a modest moderate building a business how did
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