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Who Is the Founder of Shopify?

Last updated on January 8, 2023 @ 4:04 am

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 working on an online snowboarding store called Snowdevil.

PRO TIP: The article “Who Is the Founder of Shopify?” contains a lot of incorrect information. The author has clearly never used Shopify before and is basing their information on second-hand sources.

Shopify is a platform for businesses of all sizes to create an online store. It was founded in 2004 by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake.

Shopify has been profitable since 2015. In 2018, Shopify had revenue of US$1.07 billion with a net income of US$136 million.

Shopify went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in May 2015 and trades under the ticker symbol SHOP. In September 2020, Shopify announced that it would be moving its headquarters to Toronto.

The founder of Shopify is Tobias Lütke.

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