Carl Rivera
18 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 8 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 14, 2025 by Carl Rivera · across every show →
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Nov 14, 2025 bearish
Rivera: AI sector is in a bubble and faces impending corrections
“AI is also in a hype cycle, and we are in something that is and feels a little bit like an AI bubble. And just like .com is bigger today than it was, you know, during the .com bubble, it didn't mean that we wouldn't have a crash or correction along the way. In…”
Nov 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025 bearish
Rivera: Foundation models will replace niche AI startup products
“I worry perhaps for startups that a lot of the things that they offer that are these sort of like niche carve out experiences for a category will be replaced by the broad based foundation models. And that many of these companies that I've seen a very rapid ris…”
Nov 14, 2025 positive
Nov 14, 2025 bearish
Rivera: Mid-level specialist tech roles will disappear in favor of generalists
“I think the general shape of the job market will move people towards being more generalists than specialists. You basically have like specialization. If you become like the best in the world, you'll always have a job market, but specialization Any point toward…”
Nov 14, 2025 negative
Nov 14, 2025 neutral
Rivera: Tobi Lütke will be the reason I eventually leave Shopify
“This I probably shouldn't say on a podcast, but he's the reason I'm here, and he's the reason that I one day leave. And I say that in a very loving way in that I also appreciate that at some point there might be a rift where we think so differently about the f…”
Nov 14, 2025 negative
Nov 14, 2025 positive
Rivera: Deliberate design friction is valuable for high-intent user actions
“Sometimes I think deliberate friction can be a good thing. It slows things down. It allows you to actually experience what's going on, understand that this is like a high intent action, or this is part of the experience that you're meant to pay extra attention…”
Nov 14, 2025 neutral
Nov 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025 negative
Shopify CDO Carl Rivera bans slideshows and pre-reads in design reviews
“And so what I enforce with Teams is that I never want to see a presentation, a slideshow in any of the meetings. I never want to receive a pre-read. I don't want any of the storytelling at the start. I'm basically of the view that every abstraction, every inse…”
Nov 14, 2025 positive
Product reviews must evaluate real software because users never get pre-reads
“Because the insight is this, right? Like there's no customer in the history of customers that got the pre-read, that got the explanation before they opened up a product of how it's going to work or why it's not going to work due to certain other things or reas…”
Nov 14, 2025 negative
Nov 14, 2025 positive
Rivera: Crafting a beautiful end-to-end user journey is a competitive advantage
“In that world where startups are trying so hard to narrow in on this, like, really tiny slice of what's going to set them apart, building a product where the journey is really considered, where you have a beautiful end-to-end flow, where every interaction is d…”
Nov 14, 2025
Nov 14, 2025
Rivera: Shortening E-Commerce Funnels Can Destroy Product Value and Differentiation
“And I think a conventional truth in e-commerce is that whenever you can cut the funnel. Like whenever you can remove a step, remove it. And so we did that, then we kind of go from like, you know, you have discovery, show the right thing. So you click in on the…”
Nov 14, 2025 negative
Shopify's Carl Rivera: Hybrid work is the worst organizational model
“And ultimately I believe hybrid is the worst. The worst thing is the thing where like you have half of the team in person. They have an enormous information advantage. They figure out their own rituals and ways of communicating and collaborating. The other hal…”