Toby
7 statements across 7 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Mar 11, 2022 by Harley Finkelstein · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Mar 11, 2022 positive
Sep 18, 2023 positive
Grimshaw: Tobi Lütke divested a Shopify acquisition within 18 months
“For Toby at Shopify to make an acquisition and then divest it With, I don't, I think within a year, maybe it was a year and a half, like not very long for an organization to say, to make a big move and say, nope, we made the wrong decision that fast and not ge…”
Dec 8, 2023 positive
Biswas: VCs Should Not Filter Out First-Time Founders
“There are a lot of first time founders who are phenomenal. Like I think, you know, you think about Jensen from Nvidia, he's been, I think that's his first startup. It's turned out quite good, right? So that's the sort of thing where you'd also don't want to so…”
Mar 20, 2024 positive
Lemieux: Tobi Lütke is actively cutting process overhead at Shopify
“If you look at, I believe Toby at Shopify is implementing this exact same thing. I think we're doing it in parallel universes and we will have beer every summer and compare notes. But I just trying to believe that some of the shift at Toby and Harley have been…”
Jun 3, 2024 positive
Lemkin: Shopify's Tobi Lütke is the ideal board member over founder-friendly VCs
“I think I'd pick Toby from Shopify. Cause I think he'd frigging kick my ass. We have too many founder friendly Yahoo. Great job. Harry's on boards. I I'm just so sick of it. Toby just seems like he just doesn't suffer fools. And maybe you don't want to work. M…”
Aug 25, 2025 bearish
Stebbings: Young workers face severe AI-driven workforce reductions
“I'm really concerned that there's this generation of 23 to thirty-year-olds who don't have a passion for the craft, who aren't experts in the craft, who are about to get hit by, I think it's this completely naive utopian view of like, oh, we're just gonna give…”
Nov 14, 2025 neutral
Tobi Lütke reviews every Shopify project on a two-month cadence
“Shopify has a product review cadence that's very special and different in that Toby reviews actually all of the projects every month, or so every month he reviews half of them, and then the next month he reviews the other half, such that on a two-month rolling…”