Tobias Lutke

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

— Tobias Lutke

I always loved retail. I love the ideas behind it. I think small-business retail is one of the areas where capitalism works…

— Tobias Lutke

I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If…

— Tobias Lutke

Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The…

— Tobias Lutke

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

— Tobias Lutke

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

— Tobias Lutke

At Shopify, we are trying to make things as simple as possible, but for the business owner, it's not unlike starting your…

— Tobias Lutke

Being a start-up has nothing to do with the numbers. It's that everyone who works there has the chance to do everything…

— Tobias Lutke

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

You have to put more of a well-rounded company together to make it in Canada, and I hope the Canadian market is…

— Tobias Lutke

You really want a company that's full of people from all these different backgrounds and then allow them to be creative as…

— Tobias Lutke

No one benefits from us not taking credit for our successes. There is no virtue in allowing kudos to go unclaimed or…

— Tobias Lutke

Given the success rate, if you want to get wealthy, entrepreneurship is a horrible way of doing it. There are significantly easier…

— Tobias Lutke