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May 2023
31m 47s

Behind the Shopify Store Front

Publicis Groupe
About this episode
Shopify’s Deann Evans takes us behind the scenes of its dramatic growth across 175 countries. She also explains how its ‘Chaos Monkey’s’ have eradicated 320,000 hours of internal meetings resulting in a productivity increase of 25%, what it’s like in a 100% ‘work anywhere’ company, and why no one ever joined Shopify to sit in meetings.

Further Reading Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deannre/
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