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LEAKED MEMO from Shopify CEO
- ▶ 2:58 Alex Lieberman Today on the pod, I am talking about a leaked internal memo from Toby Lucky, the CEO of Shopify.
- ▶ 3:32 Alex Lieberman About two weeks ago, Shopify's CEO, Toby Lucky, posted on X with a video of someone making music using AI. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:15 Alex Lieberman Moving down the memo, the entire next section breaks down this idea of reflexive AI, which refers to Toby's expectation that all Shopify employees, inclusive of himself, should default to AI as a thought and work partner for all that they… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:37 Alex Lieberman Toby then breaks down what reflexive AI at Shopify means with six specific action items for the company. 6 times in the scene
How Pieter Levels Hit $67k MRR in 3 Weeks
- ▶ 15:33 Alex Lieberman Harley from Shopify, Vibe Markets, Shopify's Product Roadmap. 2 times in the scene
Always Be Shipping
- ▶ 6:35 Alex Lieberman So I just have this belief that like at some of the fastest growing companies right now, whether it's Stripe or Shopify or Amazon, there are so many internal tools being used at these companies, at these high growth companies that are…
Amp it Up
- ▶ 9:15 Alex Lieberman I think that is such a good exercise for every employee, and it reminds me of what Harley Finkelstein has said at Shopify, which is the idea that every year, every employee should think about, did they re-qualify for their job at the…
The Great Online Game
- ▶ 11:00 Alex Lieberman Next was a dream job at Shopify, thanks in part to the newsletter.
- ▶ 15:28 Alex Lieberman On Friday, Shopify president Harley Finkelstein joined us on Spaces Cadets.
1,000 True Fans
- ▶ 11:14 Alex Lieberman You can sell your product through Shopify, who's not taking a massive cut of what you're selling.
How Tyler Denk Took Beehiiv from 0 to $750,000/month in 2.5 Years
- ▶ 54:19 Alex Lieberman Like I, I liken it to like Supreme doing a limited, uh, clothing drops or like, you know, Shopify now has kind of like their episodes that they do on Twitter.
Why The Future of the Creator Economy is Bright
- ▶ 0:45 Alex Lieberman During our conversation, we talk about how Kajabi is becoming the Shopify for creators.
- ▶ 2:41 Alex Lieberman I mean, my easy mental model, and I don't know if you agree with this is like, I think of it as Shopify for knowledge creators. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:11 Ahad Khan So it's even different than like a Shopify business.
- ▶ 11:05 Ahad Khan And we've been here for 13 years and we're thinking about it for the next five to 10 years that I think you'll start seeing, like, it's kind of what Shopify did. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:22 Alex Lieberman I mean, again, when I look at, um, if I was to just look at Shopify, what I think Shopify has done really well is it's the combination of just having a kick ass product that people are like, this is better than anything I could possibly… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:40 Ahad Khan We like, we actually hired the SVP, uh, SVP of insights and data from Shopify.
How Founders Should Be Integrating AI To Their Business
- ▶ 6:56 Alex Lieberman And I, I was thinking earlier today, like, you know, there's these massive businesses that have built, been built on the back of Shopify, and Shopify's app store, like, you know, Keith or Boy's whole business with, was it OpenStore, is… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:56 Alex Lieberman And I, I was thinking earlier today, like, you know, there's these massive businesses that have built, been built on the back of Shopify, and Shopify's app store, like, you know, Keith or Boy's whole business with, was it OpenStore, is…
The Shameless Entrepreneur, Shoptalk 2023, When To Delegate
- ▶ 36:00 Jesse Pujji None of which, like with the exception of Klaviyo and maybe Attentive have anything to do with Shopify. 3 times in the scene
The Story of Sam Zemurray is Bananas
- ▶ 44:23 Alex Lieberman Um, I think this business could have amazing channel partnerships because there are a ton of huge businesses out there that require you to be an LLC in order to use them, whether it's Shopify, whether it's Stripe. 3 times in the scene
Takeaways from Rihanna’s Career & How to Test Your Business Ideas
- ▶ 28:28 Jesse Pujji And we got like five friends of who had Shopify sites to throw it on their sites.
The Story of Richard Branson & How to Find Product-Market Fit
- ▶ 5:50 Jesse Pujji The customers are, uh, you know, twenty five million dollar plus Shopify merchants.
- ▶ 27:10 Jesse Pujji And then we started selling to them and realized, God, it's hard.
How to Crush Investor Updates
- ▶ 16:03 Alex Lieberman Introductions to Shopify stores that you think could be a good fit for us as a customer or introductions to marketers that have or are interested in running newsletter advertisements or sharing the launch of our education product on social.
Our 2023 Predictions, from AI to the Creator Economy
- ▶ 3:23 Alex Lieberman And finally, we're going to wrap up with Startup AMA, where we're going to be answering a question about recurring meetings and Shopify's, I would say, very contrarian change that they made as it relates to their recurring meetings. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:54 Alex Lieberman Find out what the name is of it because we'll talk about it in a few minutes, but the plunge, which is my backyard game, I'm like in the thick of building a Shopify website for the first time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:20 Alex Lieberman And it's, it actually, what it makes me want to do as I'm thinking about, and this will be another episode, the idea of a personal holding company and building many of your own businesses is like, I want to take several courses or read… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:42 Alex Lieberman Emily brought up this article that came out in the last few days about Shopify. 3 times in the scene
Co-founders Austin Rief and Alex Lieberman on Building Morning Brew
- ▶ 33:21 Sahil Bloom It was like the Shopify cha-ching thing.
The Genius of Spotify Wrapped and How to Copy It, and How to Sell Your Business for 9 Figures
- ▶ 15:56 Jesse Pujji We have talked about the opposite, which is, could you show consumers what they're looking at on these stories across like the Shopify sites, right?
How Liquid Death got a $700 Million Valuation, Making Your Pitch Deck Undeniable & The Hidden Truth of Being a Tech Entrepreneur
- ▶ 11:06 Jesse Pujji We think it could be Shopify of 20 20 in terms of its scale.
- ▶ 17:47 Jesse Pujji And so we've built that as a software plugin for Shopify stores, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:25 Jesse Pujji And so, but the big vision is, could it, what would Shopify build today? 2 times in the scene
The Golden Age of Entrepreneurship
- ▶ 0:39 Alex Lieberman Last week, we had a special guest journal with Harley Finkelstein, the president of Shopify. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:48 Alex Lieberman And with tools like Shopify, Substack,
Entrepreneurship In All Aspects Of Your Life w/ Shopify's Harley Finkelstein
- ▶ 0:32 Alex Lieberman Harley Finkelstein is the president of Shopify, a one hundred and eighty billion dollar commerce platform powering the stores of entrepreneurs from mom and pop shops to Netflix's new merch store.
- ▶ 3:58 Harley Finkelstein And so, when I think about entrepreneurship, and this is sort of where the Venn diagram of my own personal interests and my professional interests at Shopify really do totally overlap, which is that I think entrepreneurship is one of the…
- ▶ 4:17 Alex Lieberman Just to, to connect it to Shopify for a second. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:43 Harley Finkelstein I mean, I'm not trying to plug Shopify, but for 29 dollars a month today, you can start a store on Shopify, and if it doesn't work, or it doesn't work to the level and to the, to the scale that you want it to, you simply pivot, try… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:52 Alex Lieberman First 20 employee at Shopify, the lessons you learned in law school, um, and you know, some of the lessons you didn't unfortunately learn, uh, in business school. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:53 Alex Lieberman Then you were in the first 20 employees at Shopify. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:47 Alex Lieberman Next question is from Rahul in the YouTube live chat is, where did you get the IT knowledge to be able to build a web platform as Shopify? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:19 Harley Finkelstein So it's, uh, I remember one of my first weeks at Shopify, one of my first, um, projects that I worked on was building the Shopify app store. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:34 Alex Lieberman I also drop shift on Shopify.
- ▶ 22:14 Alex Lieberman And Harley, thank you so much for joining the show and continue to be just amazed by the work you're doing at Shopify and also being a champion of entrepreneurship.