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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Tobi Lütke comes up on 20VC, David Senra, the Knowledge Project, My First Million, Founder's Journal
Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
- ▶ 0:03 David Senra I just brought up Toby Luque and the fact that, uh, I recorded with him previously. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:18 David Senra Uh, we talked about Toby Luque earlier at the end of the conversation. 4 times in the scene
Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain
- ▶ 32:21 Kaz Nejatian Toby Lucas is among the most thoughtful people on the planet. 3 times in the scene
He raised $75M—but kept his team to 21 people & pays everyone the same salary. | Cos Nicolaescu, ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 22:09 Pablo Srugo Like, you know, the Toby from Shopify story and they go out and they solve it and it becomes this massive business because that feels like, I know I'm wrong saying this, but it feels like easy mode, at least at inception.
The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 1:07:33 David Senra You guys have the same idea that, um, Toby from Shopify
Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life
- ▶ 1:22:34 Ivanka Trump Toby,
Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming?
- ▶ 1:24:10 Jason Calacanis No, the proof I gave was Amazon and Andy Jassy, Shopify, Toby Lucky. 2 times in the scene
Rick Rubin on Finding Your Life’s Work
- ▶ 58:24 David Senra We mentioned Toby Luque earlier, and in the conversation I had with him that was very fascinating, he said something where he's just like, there's not like one right way to do things. 3 times in the scene
Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
- ▶ 1:17:28 David Senra Yeah, I'd be very interested in that, because when I talked to Toby Luque, the founder of Shopify, um, he said something interesting.
- ▶ 1:26:32 David Senra Uh, something Toby Luque said to me that was fascinating.
Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
- ▶ 29:16 David Senra I've, uh, so far been having these conversations is I talked to Toby Luque, the founder of Shopify, which was like that, that conversation blew my mind the way this guy thinks.
- ▶ 31:02 David Senra Toby told me, he's like, there's like, there's probably a hundred right answers here.
Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell
- ▶ 1:38:26 David Senra Okay. 3 times in the scene
$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- ▶ 35:49 Sam Parr On, on Toby's, uh, bio for board of directors, the last sentences, he says that he was on the core team for Ruby on Rails. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:06 Shaan Puri You mentioned, uh, with AI, you're like, Toby kind of dragged me into it a little bit.
Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- ▶ 2:10 Shawn Wang Yeah, and obviously, Toby, German moved to Canada as well.
⚡️ OpenClaw's Memory Sucks and the fix is simple — Dhravya Shah, Supermemory
- ▶ 11:12 unnamed speaker QMD is, is from Toby Luca, which is like really super impressive. 2 times in the scene
Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:26:07 Ben Gilbert To Nathan Bechez, my good friend and longtime F-One fan, to our friends at Shopify, Toby Lutka and Mikhail Parakin, both total motorsports nuts, and, uh, Toby actually races in another racing series, so kind of fun to get his, uh, his…
Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:11 Harry Stebbings I think Toby at Shopify is one of the most brilliant 2 times in the scene
The Most Important Career Advice You'll Ever Hear (In The AI Era) | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 57:58 Bill Gurley But it's worth watching because he's as good as, as Toby and I. 2 times in the scene
FULL BREAKDOWN: Trump BANS Anthropic
- ▶ 37:33 Jordi Hays It's interesting, a Canadian publication, The Globe and Mail, came out yesterday and says, Canada needs nationalized public AI, and Toby, the greatest Canadian entrepreneur in history, says, deranged drivel, in response.
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 24:54 David Senra Um, one of my favorite conversations I've had so far for the show was with Toby Luque.
Citrini Research Breakdown: Agents, "Ghost GDP", Consumer Spend | Figma Earnings Beat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:09 Jason Lemkin You can probably do the Toby playbook if you're north of 20, probably the math barely pencils out, uh, at that level, right?
Inside Opendoor: The $2.8B Bet with CEO Kaz Nejatian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 3:25 Kaz Nejatian Toby had built this wonderful thing and people were misjudging it, but from the outside, it was not like Shopify back then was not the winner it is today.
Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
- ▶ 13:43 David Senra We, we were talking a lot about this conversation I just had with Toby Luque. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:21 David Senra Do you, um, identify with Toby Luque?
- ▶ 2:13:47 Jason Fried Toby, Toby's interview with, with COVID in a sense, like COVID saved Shopify in a lot of ways, right? 4 times in the scene
AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
- ▶ 45:21 David George Um, first of all, I think you need to, you know, I mentioned Toby, like the reason Shopify has embraced it is because Toby has led from the top and he runs the business, you know, with AI at the center and, and he, he sort of performance…
Tortured Into Greatness: The Life of Andre Agassi
- ▶ 44:00 David Senra With Toby Luque. 3 times in the scene
Elon Musk vs Sam Altman | The Implosion of Thinking Machines | Can VC Survive Public Pricing? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:11 Jason Lemkin Toby could buy a company like that. 2 times in the scene