How Shopify Went From Startup to IPO

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概要

TLDRThe video narrates the story of Shopify from its initial struggles to its establishment as a major e-commerce platform. Founded by people passionate about snowboarding, Shopify was developed out of frustration with existing online business solutions. Launched in 2006, it quickly evolved to empower merchants with an easy-to-use platform that leverages technology to simplify online selling. The founders emphasize creativity over capital, showcasing how anyone with an idea can start a business today. Shopify aims to reshape the retail landscape, making it more inclusive and participatory in the years ahead.

収穫

  • 💡 Starting small: Shopify began with a passion for snowboarding.
  • 📈 Focus on growth: Consistent revenue growth since inception.
  • 🔧 Simple solutions: Shopify simplifies online selling for everyone.
  • 🛒 Democratizing commerce: Anyone can start a business without significant capital.
  • 🌍 Retail everywhere: The future is about omnichannel commerce.
  • 🚀 Emphasis on creativity: Modern entrepreneurs prioritize creativity over capital.
  • 📊 Metrics of success: Monthly recurring revenue and gross merchandise volume highlight Shopify's performance.
  • 🤝 Community support: Shopify provides robust support for new merchants.
  • 🛠️ User-friendly design: Even non-tech-savvy individuals can build stores easily.
  • 🔮 Vision for the future: Shopify aims to lead the retail revolution.

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  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    In the beginning, the founder struggled to secure investments and relied on personal savings. Despite challenges, he urged his team to plan for future products. The idea of starting an online snowboard business emerged as a hobby, leading to the creation of Shopify. Initial technical setbacks eventually prompted him to create the software that would power his online store.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The shift from selling snowboards to launching Shopify marked a significant pivot. This new venture focused on helping retailers succeed online. The company's growth from humble beginnings to becoming a prominent e-commerce platform attracted attention from retailers and investors alike, highlighting the importance of access to user-friendly technology in retail.

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    The narrative transitioned to a historical context, introducing the first department store and discussing how technology has revitalized retail after years of stagnation. The speaker emphasized that technology now empowers individuals to build their online stores, leveling the playing field that was once dominated by large corporations.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Entrepreneurs featured in the video shared their success stories with Shopify, credits their growth to its user-friendly platform. The discussion amplified the transition from a capital-intensive approach to an emphasis on creativity as the core driver for starting a business today. Shopify's affordable service allows anyone with a product and idea to thrive.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:38

    The growth of Shopify is analyzed with a focus on its financial health, subscription solutions, and merchant solutions. The speaker unveiled impressive revenue numbers and positive cash flow, emphasizing efficient spending and strategic growth. This highlighted Shopify's position in the changing retail landscape, driving home that adaptability and innovation are key for future success.

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  • What was the initial idea behind creating Shopify?

    The initial idea was to create an online business selling snowboards, which eventually evolved into the Shopify platform.

  • What year was Shopify launched?

    Shopify was launched in 2006.

  • How has Shopify changed the e-commerce landscape?

    Shopify has simplified the process of starting an online store, allowing even those without technical expertise to sell products easily.

  • What is the starting cost to use Shopify?

    You can start a Shopify store for $29 a month.

  • What makes Shopify notable compared to traditional retail?

    Shopify democratizes commerce, enabling anyone to sell products without needing significant capital.

  • How has Shopify performed in terms of revenue growth?

    Shopify has seen consistent growth, processing billions in merchandise volume since inception.

  • What kind of support does Shopify offer to new merchants?

    Shopify provides a user-friendly interface, customer support, and a variety of apps to help merchants succeed.

  • What does Shopify focus on for its merchant solutions?

    Shopify integrates various merchant services within its platform to streamline the e-commerce experience.

  • How has the nature of retail changed with the rise of platforms like Shopify?

    Retail is becoming more participatory, allowing more individuals to engage and innovate in commerce.

  • What is Shopify's vision for the future of commerce?

    Shopify envisions a future where commerce is everywhere and accessible to everyone.

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    going public the startup plans to list
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    technology is used by thousand what
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    years of hard work by this entire
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    company working to make you look great
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    as a merchant the sophistication of
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    business that we created right now that
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    use Shopify vastly outstrip the
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    capabilities of very established
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    100 years at some points this is
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    consumation of Enterprise quality
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    it's getting faster and it's everywhere
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    and Shopify is doing this for comments
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    so in 1876 a guy named John W maker
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    [Music]
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    stores it actually was the first store
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    in America that had electricity and had
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    a telephone in there this was the first
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    department store meaning it was the
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    that for the first time in about 130
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    years or so things are getting pretty
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    exciting again I think the next 5 or 10
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    years are going to be the most exciting
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    times of retail and of Commerce of the
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    last 130 years and I think what's
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    driving it is technology technology is
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    making it easier for anyone to build an
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    online store technolog is making it
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    easier to connect all these different
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    pieces our mission is to take the
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    concept of Commerce and redistribute it
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    amongst all of people not just give it
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    to the department stores or the the
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    businesses you think that Commerce is
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    something massively participatory
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    something that everyone has a voice in
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    and something that everyone should
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    engage
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    in we both kind of dabbled in a bunch of
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    business was to put some type of
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    that kind kind of fell out of the box
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    about today is that I think what you
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    need now is creativity not capital and
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    the fact that we've shifted away from
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    great you don't necessarily need a lot
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    of money to start a Shopify store if you
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    have a product and you have an idea and
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    you have some passion around that you
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    can build a store for $29 a month and
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    that store can grow to be a $100 million
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    company that was not possible 10 years
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    ago we started mind in 2006 mind ey
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    started to get into last year we started
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    started to look around for a e-commerce
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    platform that was flexible enough for me
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    that thought about mobile first and and
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    then we ended up choosing
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    Shopify I think the best thing about
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    Shopify is that it's made me not have to
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    worry about anything that has to do with
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    the e-commerce portion when I received
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    my first order online I remember the
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    thoughts validating everything that was
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    like the best in the world
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    [Applause]
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    the most important thing that you have
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    to do is to have faith in yourself if
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    you try to make everything as perfect as
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    you can it's really going to show in
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    your end product and I think a lot of
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    people will appreciate that in the end
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    Shopify is really helping people who
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    don't necessarily have the web
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    development skills to connect directly
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    to Consumers I mean that's really an
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    incredible shift in what the
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    opportunities are we uh I mean we
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    started in my living room there was no
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    equipment there was no Factory there was
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    there was nothing like that and now we
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    have a 10,000 ft Factory we have about
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    20 employees which I would never have
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    imagined would have been something that
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    was possible 2 years ago I'm grateful
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    for Shopify for enabling and I think
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    there's a lot of examples of other
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    makers out there who have figured out
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    hey this is uh you know we can make
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    something and sell directly to Consumers
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    through services like shop
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    a lot of people say that they're
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    business catalysts right this is really
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    business Catalyst we help people build
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    businesses here I was a merchant first
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    before I joined this company and and I
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    joined because I saw what the potential
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    was and it was it was guys like Toby I
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    was inspired by his vision to change all
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    of this to take retail to take a
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    sledgehammer to the traditional retail
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    model and Chang it and I wanted to help
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    spread the word that you don't have to
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    have a rich daddy anymore you don't have
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    to have you know famous last name if you
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    have a product and passion you can build
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    an incredible business because of
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    [Music]
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    Shopify I'm Liz and I'm going to show
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    you how easy it is to open a Shopify
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    store just head on over to shopify.com
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    plug in a few details and hit create
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    your store once you create a store
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    you'll see the Shopify dashboard it's
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    the home base for your business you'll
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    see things like traffic sales and all
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    your latest activity now that you're in
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    your shop Let's Start by adding a
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    product I sell ceramic bulldogs and you
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    can too maybe not Bulldogs but something
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    the first thing we're going to do is hit
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    add product put in a title add some
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    product details snap a photo upload it
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    add the price and hit save product now
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    that you've added products let's make
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    your shop look really good the best part
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    is you don't need to be a designer or a
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    developer we have a wide range of themes
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    that you can pick from from our theme
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    store all you need to do is add a theme
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    and start customizing it add a logo
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    change the colors make it fit your brand
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    just right now that you've set up your
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    store it's time to start selling it's
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    the best part anytime you make a sale
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    you'll be notified no matter where you
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    are after you made a sale ship your
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    product and mark the order as complete
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    people don't only want to shop online
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    they might want to buy from you offline
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    you can sell to them in person using
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    Shopify POS in a retail store at a
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    farmers market or even a pop-up shop
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    Shopify allows you to take credit card
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    gift cards or even Bitcoin you can sell
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    on channels like Facebook or anywhere
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    you like and the orders will appear
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    right in your Shopify dashboard Shopify
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    gives you access to to customer reports
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    so you can make the right choices for
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    your business and if you have any
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    questions along the way there's a
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    Shopify Guru available 24/7 to lend a
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    hand shopify's core offering does what
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    most people need most of the time and
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    we're very disciplined about that we
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    don't want to bulk up Shopify with every
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    feature under the sun because that's not
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    what most people need most of the time
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    we've created an ecosystem whereby app
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    developers are building apps for Shopify
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    theme designers are making themes for us
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    and agencies and Freelancers from all
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    over the world are referring new
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    Merchants to Shopify what we've done is
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    we've created a set of apis and gone out
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    to third parties some big companies like
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    Inuit for example or MailChimp for
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    example or Conant contact and we've
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    encouraged them to build applications
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    for the Shopify App Store whereby our
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    Merchants can use those applications in
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    other cases we have these really really
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    cool groups of Engineers like buold apps
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    and Winnipeg all they do all day long
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    these 50 people are build new
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    functionality new apps new extensions
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    for Shopify so B is a an e-commerce we
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    specialize primarily in apps but we also
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    do e-commerce solutions for small mpw
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    e-commerce stores all the way up to
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    Fortune 500 companies like Time Life C
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    to slay but it's all centered around
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    e-commerce in one way or another Shopify
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    is a Commerce platform so if someone
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    just join Shopify it's really easy to
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    get started you don't need any of the
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    apps you can just sell or there's apps
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    and there's Shopify Partners doing
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    development for it that you can go to
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    and get the custom work done because of
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    that API we have 14 live now in the App
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    Store four in production as we speak one
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    in testing our goal actually for the
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    next year is to release an app a month
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    and I think we're going to pass that so
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    watching bold apps sort of grow from
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    these four entrepreneurs to being a team
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    of over 50 people that gave me
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    goosebumps the fact that we not only had
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    this great team building new
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    functionality for us but we helped them
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    create their own multi-million dollar
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    business that was awesome for me and so
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    in a similar way to how we have this app
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    ecosystem at this very moment we have
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    designers all over the world thinking
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    about how to make Shopify storefronts
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    look better and thinking about what
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    merchants may require in terms of the
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    front-end design and again that theme is
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    really important right because that's
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    the first thing that a customer sees
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    when they come to your online store most
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    companies that have a theme store kind
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    of create these very generic looking
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    themes a white theme Black theme
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    something that kind of looks artsy or
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    hipster others that are a little more
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    professional I'm taking a very very
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    different approach we've actually
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    created a theme program or a theme store
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    whereby some of the best designers
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    around the world can build themes for
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    Shopify and these designers are thinking
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    about all the different verticals that
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    Merchants are selling on so for example
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    we have theme designers that have built
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    themes for Shopify that are particularly
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    suited for selling children's clothing
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    so if you want to build a store and
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    Shopify to sell children's clothing we
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    have themes that were built with
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    children's clothing in mind if you want
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    to sell tires for a racing car we have
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    themes that that appeal to that
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    particular demographic trffic and so to
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    have a very unique theme that you can
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    also customize Beyond just the templated
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    theme settings it allows you as the
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    merchant to tailor your online store the
  • 00:16:08
    way you want it to look like as opposed
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    to the way we think it should look and
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    we've worked with some of the most
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    incredible web designers some of the
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    most famous web designers in the world
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    to build new themes for Shopify and many
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    of them are free what's interesting is
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    that that partner ecosystem can use to
  • 00:16:21
    grow and grow they're building new apps
  • 00:16:23
    for us they're making new themes for us
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    they're referring new customers to us
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    small Partners become much larger larger
  • 00:16:29
    partners and we become the most
  • 00:16:30
    important tool in our partners
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    businesses in a similar way that we're
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    the most important piece of software
  • 00:16:35
    that our Merchants use we're very much
  • 00:16:37
    the most important tool that many of our
  • 00:16:39
    partners use as
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    well what makes Shopify special in terms
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    of engineering and the core platform is
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    our focus on on quality of what we
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    deliver and building for the long term
  • 00:16:54
    so not cutting Corners making sure that
  • 00:16:56
    things are going to scale we have the
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    tools and and systems in place to know
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    you know when things are going right and
  • 00:17:02
    when they're going wrong we make sure
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    that we exercise the full limits of the
  • 00:17:06
    platform regularly we don't want to
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    leave anything to chance
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    he
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    I joined chopi just over four years ago
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    and the sort of the Catalyst for that is
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    when Toby was doing the series a
  • 00:18:10
    financing one of the investors said we
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    want you to take some of this money and
  • 00:18:14
    hire yourself a CFO and so shortly after
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    that I met up with Toby and we've been
  • 00:18:20
    working together ever since one of the
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    most impressive things about chafi has
  • 00:18:25
    been our growth if you look over the
  • 00:18:27
    last three years we've grown at more
  • 00:18:29
    than 100% each of those years and that
  • 00:18:32
    growth has continued into q1
  • 00:18:35
    2015 where again our growth was roughly
  • 00:18:38
    100% there's two major elements to our
  • 00:18:40
    business one is what we call
  • 00:18:42
    subscription Solutions which is the SAS
  • 00:18:45
    base predictable part which has been
  • 00:18:48
    growing uh nicely throughout this period
  • 00:18:50
    of time and the other which has becoming
  • 00:18:52
    a bigger part of the business which is
  • 00:18:54
    Merchant Solutions and that's the
  • 00:18:56
    success-based part of the business and
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    on that what we're trying to do is
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    really take things that a lot of times
  • 00:19:03
    the merchant would have to get on their
  • 00:19:05
    own we brought it within the platform to
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    better understand the subscription
  • 00:19:11
    solution part of the business uh the way
  • 00:19:13
    that we look at that is through our key
  • 00:19:15
    metric called the monthly recurring
  • 00:19:18
    revenue and in terms of that it's very
  • 00:19:20
    simple it just takes the number of
  • 00:19:22
    merchants on the platform at the end of
  • 00:19:25
    any month multiplies it by the plan that
  • 00:19:27
    they're on and that combination you can
  • 00:19:30
    see over time has grown by approximately
  • 00:19:33
    89% on a compounded basis for 13 quars
  • 00:19:37
    in a row for the merchant solution
  • 00:19:41
    component of our Revenue the best way to
  • 00:19:43
    look at that is through the gross
  • 00:19:45
    merchandise volume in
  • 00:19:47
    2012 that number was 700 million in
  • 00:19:51
    2014 that number is grown to $3.8
  • 00:19:54
    billion we've now processed over8
  • 00:19:56
    billion worth of orders on shopy
  • 00:19:59
    platform which is exciting in terms of
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    both it shows the scalability of
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    platform as well as the success
  • 00:20:04
    Merchants are having using it to fully
  • 00:20:07
    appreciate the power of the shop fight
  • 00:20:08
    business model the best way to look at
  • 00:20:11
    this is through cohort analysis every
  • 00:20:13
    year Builds on the prior cohorts and
  • 00:20:17
    overall any Merchant loss is largely
  • 00:20:19
    offset by the remaining Merchants
  • 00:20:21
    upgrading plans selling more on the
  • 00:20:24
    platform or purchasing some of the many
  • 00:20:25
    other services that we're making
  • 00:20:27
    available for their success
  • 00:20:29
    when Toby was starting out with a few
  • 00:20:32
    guys in a coffee shop coding the
  • 00:20:35
    platform cash management was critical to
  • 00:20:39
    them their
  • 00:20:40
    longevity that view on cash and making
  • 00:20:44
    sure that you manage it effectively
  • 00:20:46
    something that's been ingrained in the
  • 00:20:47
    culture of shopi which as a CFO
  • 00:20:50
    certainly makes my life easier and the
  • 00:20:52
    result of that is since Inception the
  • 00:20:55
    company has earned less than $30
  • 00:20:56
    millionar of cash
  • 00:20:59
    and its operating cash performance over
  • 00:21:01
    the 13th quarter has been a positive
  • 00:21:04
    $6.6 million now that doesn't mean that
  • 00:21:07
    we don't spend money it just means that
  • 00:21:09
    we're very scientific in how we spend
  • 00:21:12
    the money and what we spend it on so
  • 00:21:13
    we're always looking to get the best
  • 00:21:15
    bang for the buck or the highest return
  • 00:21:17
    on that amount and if you look at an
  • 00:21:20
    operating expenses as a percentage of
  • 00:21:22
    Revenue that has declined from 84% back
  • 00:21:25
    in 2012 to 62% in the most recent
  • 00:21:29
    quarter and that again will lead to a
  • 00:21:32
    company that can stay in business and
  • 00:21:34
    grow for the long
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    term and what do you think happens to
  • 00:21:44
    retail I mean we have a we have a
  • 00:21:47
    massive implosion of malls in the United
  • 00:21:49
    States right which is going to be a
  • 00:21:53
    problem because well it's the problem
  • 00:21:56
    for people who own the malls
  • 00:21:58
    for society you think that is this A
  • 00:22:00
    continuing Trend but the big thing the
  • 00:22:02
    malls exploded on the backs of a
  • 00:22:05
    department store and I'm operating under
  • 00:22:08
    the sort of assumption that if like
  • 00:22:11
    department store started like in 1860
  • 00:22:14
    under John one maker um
  • 00:22:18
    and like Vi at Shopify operate on the
  • 00:22:20
    assumption that the department store is
  • 00:22:22
    a dead branch of the larger history of
  • 00:22:25
    of of of retail Commerce is going to
  • 00:22:27
    change significantly it's going to be
  • 00:22:29
    nothing like it is right now how is it
  • 00:22:30
    going to change in your mind what do you
  • 00:22:31
    think the big changes we'll see in our
  • 00:22:33
    lifetime in a lifetime I I I bet you at
  • 00:22:37
    some point probably in this decade you
  • 00:22:39
    you're going to walk into a store you're
  • 00:22:41
    going to buy a product and they are
  • 00:22:43
    going to give you the products and then
  • 00:22:45
    you're going to be annoyed at them
  • 00:22:46
    because now you have to carry it
  • 00:22:48
    home we've seen this happen so much in
  • 00:22:51
    the past 10 20 years where technology
  • 00:22:54
    has has radicalized Industries you saw
  • 00:22:56
    it first with things like block Buster
  • 00:22:59
    disappeared overnight with the Advent of
  • 00:23:00
    Netflix you see it now with with taxis
  • 00:23:03
    that are being supplanted by Uber and so
  • 00:23:07
    I think when the time is right when
  • 00:23:09
    everything lines up and consumers really
  • 00:23:12
    buy into these Concepts the the adoption
  • 00:23:15
    by consumers will happen and it'll
  • 00:23:17
    happen fast but to me that's really just
  • 00:23:18
    the beginning of all this right this is
  • 00:23:20
    just sort of day one of the the great
  • 00:23:22
    change that's going to happen uh and I
  • 00:23:25
    think that those that can't adapt can't
  • 00:23:27
    evolve can't innovate will
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    die now more than ever the expectations
  • 00:23:35
    that consumers have are acting as a
  • 00:23:37
    catalyst for this retail Revolution
  • 00:23:39
    that's happening and so technology is
  • 00:23:42
    going to drive it companies like Shopify
  • 00:23:44
    are going to power it but ultimately
  • 00:23:46
    it's the retailers who have to
  • 00:23:47
    understand that the future of retail
  • 00:23:49
    isn't online versus offline it's not one
  • 00:23:51
    or the other it's retail everywhere and
  • 00:23:53
    Shopify will power retail everywhere
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    we think that in the future many many
  • 00:24:07
    many more people become the source of
  • 00:24:11
    Commerce people will always create
  • 00:24:14
    products people will always enhance
  • 00:24:17
    products through stories and people will
  • 00:24:19
    always try to find an
  • 00:24:21
    audience the exchange of goods is so
  • 00:24:24
    fundamental to The Human Condition
  • 00:24:27
    entrepreneurship in general and building
  • 00:24:28
    businesses it's just such a pure form of
  • 00:24:32
    human
  • 00:24:33
    self-expression we're not trying to
  • 00:24:35
    build a company for the next two years
  • 00:24:36
    we want to BU able to come for the next
  • 00:24:37
    100 years and that takes an incredible
  • 00:24:39
    amount of discipline you know if I look
  • 00:24:41
    back in the last 10 years of this
  • 00:24:42
    business I think we've done that I think
  • 00:24:45
    Shopify as a company but us as
  • 00:24:48
    individuals we constantly getting more
  • 00:24:50
    comfortable with being uncomfortable
  • 00:24:52
    we're constantly challenging ourselves
  • 00:24:54
    we're constantly throwing out past
  • 00:24:56
    assumptions based on new points we're
  • 00:24:59
    trying to build products for the future
  • 00:25:00
    of retail for the future of Commerce and
  • 00:25:02
    in some cases it hasn't actually
  • 00:25:04
    happened yet but we believe that's where
  • 00:25:06
    it's going
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