Nejatian: Shopify requires marketers to use GitHub and salespeople to write SQL
Kaz Nejatian · Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Aug 14, 2024 · at 19:55
Kaz Nejatian, VP of Product and COO of Shopify, describes Shopify's technical culture and operational requirements for non-engineering roles.
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“We don't have that at Shopify. At Shopify, if a marketer wants to create a new landing page, they have to go into GitHub. They have to know how to write some code. They have, like, this is a real thing, and our, so our marketers learn how to write some code. Like, we expect people here to be able to be able to do SQL queries. Like, this is a real thing. Like many of our sales people write SQL.”
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