Nejatian: Every Great Product Starts with a Clear Vision to Fix a Misguided World
Kaz Nejatian · Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Aug 14, 2024 · at 5:50
Kaz Nejatian is the Chief Operating Officer at Shopify. He argues that creating impactful products requires a clear initial vision of the desired outcome.
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“Everything good ever created started with someone saying, hold on a second. The world is wrong about X. I will fix it. The initial thing of saying, I have to create a thing to fix a problem for me or for someone else, requires you to know what you want at the end.”
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