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Evans: Shopify CEO mandated employees report their AI usage
“I remember a while ago, the CEO of Shopify said, you know, it was like an HR requirement that everyone had to report how much AI they were using.”
WPP launches Every Mile to compete directly against Shopify
“WPP, which is one of the world's biggest advertising networks, has just launched basically a managed Shopify competitor. Which they call Every Mile, and which has a bunch of people with tech industry backgrounds involved.”
Evans: Shopify reached $120B GMV in 2020, over 40% of Amazon Marketplace
“2019, Shopify did sixty billion dollars of GMV. GMV is gross merchandise value. That means people spent sixty billion dollars on Shopify sites. And in 2020, it was one hundred and twenty billion dollars, which makes it about 40%, a bit over 40% of Amazon Marke…”
Evans: Shopify reached $165B GMV in the twelve months to Q3
“Then you have Shopify whose numbers, Q four numbers aren't out yet, but in the 12 months to Q three, they did a hundred and sixty five billion dollars of GMV, which is about 40, 45% of the size of Amazon marketplace.”
Cowan-Brown: Shopify powers approximately 1.7M storefronts
“Shopify, more or less without people noticing, but it's now the software that's being used for about 1.7 million storefronts. And I don't, I haven't checked that number, but I saw, I think it was in either a political article or another tech article, but I tho…”