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Evans: Users will eventually abandon Shopify for simpler alternatives
“Paradoxically, you know, all services grow, you know, so it's a problem that eventually Shopify, people will look at Shopify and say, that's too hard, I want something simpler, which is exactly why Shopify did. They looked at WordPress and said, that's too har…”
Benedict Evans Feb 21, 2021 ▶ 20:29 Shopify and digital transformation
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Kevins: Shopify succeeded by unbundling complex workflows from WordPress
“Shopify is a hundred billion dollar WordPress plugin. And just to be really clear, I'm not saying literally, like, a hundred, you know, Shopify does what you ought to be able to do with a plugin to WordPress, except it's too difficult, and it's too verticalize…”
Bernadette Kevins Dec 7, 2020 ▶ 25:41 Slack, Salesforce and the future of work
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Evans: Substack succeeds by bundling WordPress, Mailchimp, and Stripe
“Substack is also easier than WordPress plus Stripe plus MailChimp plus plus plus plus. And so you can just go and go and get started.”
Benedict Evans Jan 3, 2021 ▶ 5:39 The history of doom-scrolling
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