The Tim Ferriss Show

By Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig

#359: Tobi Lütke — From Snowboard Shop to Billion-Dollar Company

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Published February 07, 2019 4:05pm

"Feedback is a gift." — Tobi Lütke

Tobi Lütke (@tobi) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shopify. In 2004, Tobi began building software to launch an online snowboard store called Snowdevil. It quickly became obvious that the software was more valuable than the snowboards, so Tobi and his founding team launched the Shopify platform in 2006. He has served as CEO since 2008 at the company's headquarters in Ottawa, Canada.

Tobi is an active advocate for computer literacy and education, and serves as a board member of Canada Learning Code, an organization working to give all...

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