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Tobias Lütke

Co-founder and chief executive of Shopify

Canada

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Born in Koblenz, Germany, and trained as a computer programmer there before moving to Canada in 2002. Co-founded Shopify in 2006 after building the software for an online snowboard shop, and has led it as chief executive since.

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Question What is the worst advice you received that you followed anyway? Failure & regret read 4 other answers →
So I really tried everything, including, you know, just how to build the team in such a way that I delegate everything, and I have my different business lines, and arrange things. This is sort of after the IPO, and I realized I have to be a very “serious” public company CEO. And so it almost killed the company, honestly.
Recorded David Senra, David Senra's podcast, David Senra (published episode transcript), 2026 source ↗

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