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John Phillips

4 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 5, 2019 by Tobias Lütke · said 8 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Aug 5, 2019
Disclosure
Lütke: Shopify met early payroll with loans from family and father-in-law
“Like, up to this point, it was really just money from John Phillips, from my family, and then for the last year, from my father-in-law, who gave me money for, to meet payroll.”
Tobias Lütke Aug 5, 2019 ▶ 44:02 Shopify: Tobias Lütke
Aug 5, 2019 positive
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Lütke: Angel Investor John Phillips Saved Shopify With $400K in 2007
“We luckily met an angel investor who ended up putting, I think, 400,000 dollars around 2007, and that saved us as an individual by the name of John Phillips.”
Tobias Lütke Aug 5, 2019 ▶ 34:03 Shopify: Tobias Lütke
Jun 8, 2026
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Early Shopify payroll was funded by Lütke's family and father-in-law
“Like, up till this point, it was really just, you know, money from John Phillips, from my family, and then for the last year, from my father-in-law, who gave me Money for, to meet payroll.”
Tobias Lütke Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 42:33 Shopify: Tobias Lütke. How a snowboarder built a $150 billion business (2019)
Jun 8, 2026 positive
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Angel investor John Phillips saved Shopify with a $400,000 investment in 2007
“We luckily met an angel investor who ended up putting, I think, 400,000 dollars around 2007, and that saved us as an individual by the name of John Phillips.”
Tobias Lütke Jun 8, 2026 ▶ 32:46 Shopify: Tobias Lütke. How a snowboarder built a $150 billion business (2019)
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