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Is Shopify a Legitimate Company?

Last updated on October 1, 2022 @ 6:27 pm

Shopify is a Canadian e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. It is also the name of its proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. Shopify offers online retailers a platform to sell their products through.

Shopify was founded in 2004 by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake. Lütke, a German citizen, originally came to Canada to sell snowboards. He was frustrated by the existing ecommerce products at the time, so he decided to build his own.

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Shopify has been growing steadily since its launch. It now has over 1,000 employees and is used by over 175,000 businesses in 150 countries.

Is Shopify a Legitimate Company?

Yes, Shopify is a legitimate company. It is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange with a market capitalization of over $10 billion as of 2019. Shopify is also a member of the Better Business Bureau.

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