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Shopify acquired Kit CRM to establish its San Francisco office
“Actually, the team in San Francisco was a product acquisition. It was an incredible team out in San Francisco called Kit CRM, which was building a text-based interface to simplify a merchant experience. Their core initial offering was around simple marketing s…”
Shopify maps out 12-month post-acquisition integration plans before closing deals
“As you're on the phase between the terms of the deal and closing the deal, we spend a lot of time to plan out what that first three, six, and 12 months will look like.”
Neither Shopify's founders nor CFO had public company leadership experience
“Myself and Toby, we've never ran a publicly traded company before. Even our CFO, who has a lot of experience as a CFO, he's never really ran a public company either.”
Shopify aims to build an independent 100-year company
“We want to stay a large, independent business for a very long time. We want to build a hundred-year company, and at some point, being a publicly traded business, it makes it easier to be a long-term company, and so it just made sense for us.”