Shopify: Tobias Lütke. How a snowboarder built a $150 billion business (2019)

Hey everyone, so this week we're revisiting one of our absolute favorite episodes from the archive. It's my conversation with Toby Lutke, co-founder and CEO of the e-commerce brand Shopify. Since launching 20 years ago, sales on Shopify have topped over$1 trillion. But as you'll hear, it all started back when Toby decided to move to Canada from Germany. and start a snowboarding business. Here's my conversation with Toby from August twenty nineteen. Enjoy the show.

So How are you doing as the CEO of the company? Yeah.

Uh n I not good. Uh I mean my team was very, very patient with me. There was a lot to learn. It's a tough it's a it's a very subtle job. You know, wonderful things about computers is if when you tell them what to do, they'll keep doing it and they'll do it forever until you stop. Like turns out humans are not like humans are different. Yes. So it was a very st large learning curve. Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements.

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