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-It is positive-sum in a way that progressives are not

Shopify's goal is really to bring back a part of the world of commerce that I call “high trust commerce”. It's commerce where you have this ecosystem of buyers and merchants who are all deeply committed to the art of commerce. We're committed to this idea that maybe shopping isn't supposed to be this completely frictionless experience.

John Wanamaker, and he said something really smart related to advertising. He said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” That's sort of a special theory of decision making. I think there's a general theory of decision making, which is that 50% of what anyone does is important; we just don't know... See more

In the same way the internet was a democratizing force that gave everyone in the world the ability to easily create and share information, the next step is to give everyone in the world the ability to easily create and share value.

We all know that talk is cheap, so we tend to believe what we see more than what we hear. Your real friends are the ones who show up to help you move, not the ones who tell you how they’ll always be there for you. A good boss is the one who gives you time off when your mom dies, not the one who says, “I care about you!” and then asks you if you

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Also consider: All it takes is for one game world built on-chain to remotely succeed, and then it’s game over for anything that’s solely entertainment. Think about it – why bother investing any meaningful time or resources into a game world where you aren’t building real world value?

Combining professional and personal projects: you remove the frontier between the personal and professional worlds and you decide how you want to allocate you time.