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" It is incredibly powerful if you solve the problem you actually have yourself. It's really tough to develop a good product when you don't have very close proximity to the people who actually use your product. The closest proximity you can have to those people is to be that person. "

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" E-commerce is not an industry; e-commerce is a tactic. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the 'compass metric' because it will be your compass for growth. It's important to note that 'compass metrics' will likely change over the lifetime of a business. "

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

" I am a worrier. I tend to do something about what I worry about. "

" We have a lot of really great companies in Canada, and I think there's always been this fear that 'great' in Canada doesn't mean great on a world stage. We need more self-confidence. We are building incredibly good businesses with incredibly good people, being loyal, dedicating themselves to solving important problems. "

" It's this concept of 'just fill up a building of smart people.' It sounds so basic, but honestly it might just be the secret behind Shopify's success. We just do that and get out of the way. "

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

Tobias Lutke

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" A lot of the best technologists live and work in Canada, and every once in a while, they are aggregated by a Canadian company, and then suddenly, they're not anymore. But the people are still here - they're just working for American companies to the benefit of American bottom lines. "

" I got my first computer when I was 6, and I was part of that early generation of children who grew up with computers always being around. I fell in love with them early on. "

" Once you've made peace with the fact that you're hardly ever going to work on anything that you're actually good at, the only thing that you can do is get good very fast on everything you have to do. "

" You really want a company that's full of people from all these different backgrounds and then allow them to be creative as possible, come together, and come up with great ideas. "

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

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" It is my strong belief that computer literacy should be part of our educational system's core curriculum. "

" Our hiring is almost completely built around just going through someone's life story, and we look for moments when they had to make important decisions, and we go deep on those. "

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

" 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? "

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

" You have to put more of a well-rounded company together to make it in Canada, and I hope the Canadian market is going to be known for these well-performing, solid companies that people can rely on. "

" 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. "

" We are reluctant to do these bigger acquisitions that are then integrated, especially if they are committed to a certain product that they want to build that we can't guarantee we will keep evolving. "

" It took about 10 years' time for Shopify to be an overnight success. "

" Every phase of building a company is really hard. "

" 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. "

" I think I probably had to start a company, because I don't think I can work for other people. "

" Shopify has been a perpetually underestimated company at every point of its history. "