Even Tech Companies Win When They Take Time to Scale
In the early morning of the day after Christmas, Tobi Lütke, the CEO of Shopify, let loose a flurry of tweets. Shopify is the sales platform behind more than a million small online businesses. The company has grown from a shoestring operation to a best-in-class platform, worth some $50 billion. Yeah—with a B.
Shopify is a classic Silicon Valley story—except it isn’t in Silicon Valley. For one thing,
