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Tobi Lütke - Building Islands of Innovation - [Invest Like the Best, EP.393] — Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
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I heard this internal memo of mine is being leaked right now, so here it is: https://t.co/Qn12DY7TFF
"I see our customers as partners in a big project, not as crops to be harvested. You can’t have a sustainable long-term relationship when you treat your customers as crops.”
-Tobi Lutke
Last month, Tobi Lutke, the co-founder and CEO of Shopify, was asked if ‘Shopify was the next Amazon.’ His response was incredible, and he said this: “Amazon is trying to build an empire and Shopify is trying to arm the rebels.”
Blake Robbins • Arming The Rebels of The Future
Shopify, the Canadian-based company valued at tens of billions of dollars that helps businesses build online stores, started the same way. Its founders—Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake—wanted to start an e-commerce company for snowboarding equipment. That platform, called Snowdevil, worked well enough for gear that they eventually pivot
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Shopify is comfortable with the unquantifiable things such as tastes, quality, passion, love, hate. It's with the strong emotions that people have. The sort of deep satisfaction that a craftsperson feels when they've done a job well is actually better proxy if you allow it to be then the ... Do a unit test pass.
Tobi Lütke • Tobi
