Levesque: Shopify embeds dedicated product and engineering teams inside its growth org
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Luc Levesque, VP/Chief Growth Officer at Shopify, explains the internal organizational structure of Shopify's growth division.
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“We have a product org and an engineering org inside the Shopify growth org”
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