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" I care about working on interesting problems, and Shopify is this gift that keeps on giving for working on interesting problems with amazing people. "

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" I find the strongest predictor of people who do well at Shopify is whether they see opportunity as something to compete for, or do they see opportunity as essentially everywhere and unlimited? It's a rough proxy for pessimism and optimism. "

" Shopify was built as a company that could be run remotely anywhere. "

" All of us in Canada have to be better at making a dollar count, because we have fewer dollars. "

" Sometimes, when you're building a company, out of necessity there's just a gazillion things you have to learn and figure out. "

" I got my first computer at the age of 6. To me, it was magic. By the time I was 12, I wanted to know the secrets behind the wizardry, and that started my journey toward computer programming. This was the early 1990s, when computers weren't built for the mass market. "

" I have serious, serious problems with personas - with unauthentic individuals. "

" No one benefits from us not taking credit for our successes. There is no virtue in allowing kudos to go unclaimed or elsewhere. "

" Everyone loves feeling comfortable. But it's actually completely useless. "

" We need a lot more technically literate people. The computers are the tools that are going to solve essentially all problems, and the people who can use them better will be more effective. "

" I'm against exclusion of any kind - whether that's restricting people from Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. or kicking merchants off our platform if they're operating within the law. "

" Change has to be fundamental to a company's culture, or there is no way it can survive. "

" If you believe something needs to exist, if it's something you want to use yourself, don't let anyone ever stop you from doing it. "

" More and more people are opening online stores and online retail businesses. This market is expanding very, very quickly. "

" I never cared a lot for school. "

" Given the success rate, if you want to get wealthy, entrepreneurship is a horrible way of doing it. There are significantly easier ways of doing it. "

" Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets. "

" Commerce is a powerful, underestimated form of expression. We use it to cast a vote with every product we buy. It's a direct expression of democracy. This is why our mission at Shopify is to protect that form of expression and make it better for everyone, not just for those we agree with. "

" It's not a principle unless it costs you something. "

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" A lot of people have a great business idea; they just need a little push to make it a reality. "

" I spent my time, growing up, essentially between two things: technology and retail. I was fascinated by selling and loved the idea of making a profit, but I also spent a lot of time on technology. "

" I'm a liberally minded immigrant, leading a predominantly liberal workforce hailing from predominantly liberal cities and countries. "

" Why do Canadians sell themselves short? I've never been able to answer that question. "

" To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce. When we kick off a merchant, we're asserting our own moral code as the superior one. But who gets to define that moral code? "

" Our mantra has been, 'We will not buy a company unless we think the people that make up the company have a better job the day after the acquisition than before.' "

" I always loved retail. I love the ideas behind it. I think small-business retail is one of the areas where capitalism works so wonderfully well. "

" If you go into business school and suggest firing a customer, they'll kick you out of the building. But it's so true in my experience. It allows you to identify the customers you really want to work with. "

" People say Facebook connects the world. Facebook has 5,000 Ph.D.s that think about how to make you click on ads you don't want to see. Their business model is about something that most people would not perceive as making the world better. "