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When Did Shopify Become Profitable?

Last updated on October 1, 2022 @ 7:59 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 all working on developing Snowdevil, an online store for snowboarding equipment. Shopify launched its platform in 2006. Lütke, Weinand, and Lake realized that there was more opportunity in creating software that would allow anyone to create an online store, so they pivoted the company and developed the Shopify platform.

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Shopify was initially profitable in 2012. In 2015, Shopify went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with an initial public offering (IPO) price of $17 per share. As of September 2020, the company’s share price had reached $1,081.60.

Shopify has been profitable since 2012.

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