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Nov 2022
2h 45m

#152 Tobi Lütke: Calm Progress

Shane Parrish
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My guest today is Shopify co-founder and CEO Tobi Lütke.  We discuss the differences between founders and professional managers, how he’s scaled with Shopify, the constant fight against bureaucracy, how he thinks about innovation in a large company, and how he manages to keep his head when everyone else is losing theirs.   A coder at heart who emigrated fr ... Show More
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