Larry MacDonald, The Shopify Story

'The Shopify Story' author Larry MacDonald talks about how a Canadian startup rocketed to become an e-commerce giant by empowering millions of entrepreneurs, the unexpectedly dynamic partnership of a quirky game-playing programming nerd [Tobias Lutke] and a demanding power-extrovert [Harley Finkelstein], getting ghosted by his main subjects Lutke and Finkelstein, the ‘flywheel effect’ of Shopify’s API, the cultural importance of Shopify staying based out of [and growing from] its downtown Ottawa base, how millionaires [and billionaires!] were created after Shopify’s 2015 IPO, and why Tobi feels that Harley has achieved a ‘Trust Battery Level’ of 100%!
Larry MacDonald's The Shopify Story: How a Startup Rocketed to E-commerce Giant by Empowering Millions of Entrepreneurs is available at https://ecwpress.com/products/the-shopify-story
To follow Larry as he follows Shopify, please check out his substack at https://shopify1000.substack.com
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