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Is Shopify a Publicly Traded Company?

Last updated on October 1, 2022 @ 9:23 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 suite of services “including payments, marketing, shipping and customer engagement tools to simplify the process of running an online store for small merchants.

Shopify was founded in 2004 by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake, who were looking to build an online store for snowboarding equipment. Shopify was launched in 2006. Lütke is the CEO of Shopify.

Shopify went public on the New York Stock Exchange on May 21, 2015, under the symbol SHOP. Shopify stock closed at $28.74 on its first day of trading, giving the company a valuation of $1.27 billion. On February 12, 2016 Shopify acquired Boltmade.

PRO TIP: No, Shopify is not a publicly traded company. Any information claiming otherwise is false and should not be trusted.

Shopify is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol SHOP.

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