Shopify

“The foundation of Coventry in many ways, and the way that I used to invest was this idea that if you miss the big platform, you don't invest in Airbnb, you don't invest in Shopify, was to sort of draft off of their success and finding ways to build or invest i…”

“An Amazon seller who's ranked highly in a category doesn't need to spend much money on marketing and ads because the traffic will come to them for free. It's almost like you're in a mall without paying for the rent for foot traffic. In Shopify, that's not true…”

“I think Shopify took me eight emails until Toby said yes. And he asked me to fly to Ottawa. Addion took me two years to break through. Rovio took me a year and a half and I had to meet them in the U S and London in Helsinki.”

“If I had framed the world as e-commerce sooner, we probably would have had a much longer runway as an independent company. We would have at least had a chance to enter the world of Shopify, but we didn't.”

“If you're doing multiple non-consensus things and you're able to execute, that's how you create the Grand Slam home runs, the Shopify's, the Pinterest's, the Riot Games of the world.”