Tobi Lütke is the co-founder and CEO of Shopify, the global e-commerce titan with a $160 billion market cap. Under his leadership, the company generates over $7 billion in annual revenue and has seen its valuation grow nearly 100x since its 2015 IPO. Today, Shopify has over 8,000 employees and AI now generates over 50% of the Shopify's code.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:54 Fear of Losing vs Hunger to Win
07:02 Why Builders Are "Eights" and Why Companies Conspire Against Them
08:44 People Who Build Companies Are Fundamentally Crazy
09:49 Why Tobi Didn't Want to Be CEO
11:00 The Luxury of Long-Term Thinking as a Public Company
35:26 Why "Not-for-Profit" Should Make You Suspicious
37:07 Tobi's Take on Government Intervention & the Prussian School of Economics
41:04 Canada's "Trump Derangement Syndrome"
44:18 The Real Chinese Threat
47:13 What Tobi Would Do to Fix Europe
50:49 Shopify's Biggest Mistake
52:25 Great Leaders Must Be a Heat Sourc...