How Shopify Became Profitable By Helping Anyone Open An Online Boutique – with Tobias Lütke

Tobias Lütke, Shopify, B2B, Customer Acquisition, eCommerce, European Founder, International Founders, System

When Tobias Lütke opened an online snowboarding store he realized how painfully cumbersome ecommerce software was. So he decided to create Shopify, a platform that made it easy for anyone to open up an online store.

In this program you’ll hear how Shopify went from an idea to a profitable company that helps 6,000 merchants — including Pixar, Foo Fighters, Tesla Motors and Amnesty International — sell online.

Tobias Lütke

Shopify

Tobias Lütke is CEO and co-founder of Shopify, the marquee shopping cart system of the e-commerce industry. As a programmer Tobi has served on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as the Typo weblog engine, Liquid and Active Merchant.

 

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