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" What could be more Canadian than working hard to figure out something new and sharing it with the world? The world wants to hear from us! "

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

" My early interactions with VCs were really, really poor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" To me, a great company starts with a great product and ends with a great product. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Being a start-up has nothing to do with the numbers. It's that everyone who works there has the chance to do everything and have an impact. "

" I never cared a lot for school. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Growing up, I spent my time doing useless stuff looking at computers. "

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

" We're trying to build the largest start-up ever without becoming a big company. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I never went to university. "

" Different people need different kinds of communication for it to have the same effect. That was something I had to learn. "