I spent my time, growing up, essentially between two things: technology and retail. I was fascinated by selling and loved the idea… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
When the market turns down, a lot of people lose jobs... and that's the time people become entrepreneurs. Downturns end up being… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
I got my first computer at the age of 6. To me, it was magic. By the time I was 12, I… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
In my worldview, time is energy that you can invest in things, and money is energy that you can invest. Time has… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
Growing up, I spent my time doing useless stuff looking at computers. — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
Our hiring is almost completely built around just going through someone's life story, and we look for moments when they had to… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
To kick off a merchant is to censor ideas and interfere with the free exchange of products at the core of commerce. When we… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
Shopify has been a perpetually underestimated company at every point of its history. — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
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… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
What could be more Canadian than working hard to figure out something new and sharing it with the world? The world wants to hear… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
Being part of something that's growing fast is better than being part of something that isn't growing fast because opportunities are essentially everywhere, and… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
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… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
We need a lot more technically literate people. The computers are the tools that are going to solve essentially all problems, and the people… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
I find the strongest predictor of people who do well at Shopify is whether they see opportunity as something to compete for, or do… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
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… — Tobias Lutke Copy Share Image
