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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Shopify comes up
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- ▶ 17:44 Roman Ugarte And so, for example, if, you know, the Shopify
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks | Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan
- ▶ 56:01 Brian Halligan Like if you look at Toby from Shopify, 2 times in the scene
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- ▶ 6:57 Lazar Yovanovich Like some of the stuff that I've shipped that are public are like, when we launched our Shopify integration, most of the, if not all the templates that users were remixing were built by me, right? 2 times in the scene
The surprising advice from a founder who built 2 unicorns | Jason Cohen (WP Engine)
- ▶ 1:36:56 Jason Cohen However, even so on your, on your own podcast, when you were interviewing the guy from Shopify, 2 times in the scene
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 21:38 Jason Lemkin And we're already seeing lots of folks cut back on entry-level hires, you know, Shopify's and others aside where they'd rather have the six or seven-year-old engineer that's a cursor machine rather than train some kid.
The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
- ▶ 20:52 Elena Verna And for example, um, we on growth team launched, uh, integration with Shopify to enable e-commerce use case because we're like, Hey, there's already people trying to come in and do it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:03 Elena Verna For example, we partnered with Shopify and he created a bunch of Shopify lovable templates. 2 times in the scene
Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 34:35 Stewart Butterfield It really could be anything like Shopify, um,
How AI is reshaping the product role | Oji and Ezinne Udezue
- ▶ 1:05:15 Oji Udezue Uh, you can find it on Shopify or Shopify. 2 times in the scene
How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 3:09 Lenny Rachitsky Teams at Adobe, Shopify, and top creative agencies use LucidLink to keep their content engine running fast and smooth.
Why ChatGPT will be the next big growth channel (and how to capitalize on it) | Brian Balfour
- ▶ 1:10:03 Brian Balfour I can't remember from what company, this might've been Shopify or another, who was like, you are not allowed new headcount until you prove to us that you are not able to accomplish this, uh, with AI.
- ▶ 1:16:23 Brian Balfour Um, some of the best companies like Shopify and others are measuring actual, uh, adoption and usage.
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- ▶ 1:19:08 Bret Taylor And so you're selling small business software like, you know, Shopify in the early days, and there's a lot of other products like that.
Anthropic co-founder: AGI predictions, leaving OpenAI, what keeps him up at night | Ben Mann
- ▶ 4:29 Lenny Rachitsky Teams at Adobe, Shopify, and top creative agencies use LucidLink to keep their content engine running fast and smooth.
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- ▶ 18:38 Jake Knapp Well, you can, you know, you can build a site on Shopify, but you still have to market it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:30 Jake Knapp If you're using Shopify or your siloed writer, or we, you know, maybe, maybe we can differentiate on painless business growth versus labor intensive.
- ▶ 49:19 Jake Knapp So when they compare against Etsy, when they compare against Shopify or setting up your table at an art fair, they're going to differentiate on helps you grow and cooperative.
- ▶ 52:30 Jake Knapp They might build a Shopify plugin. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:07 Jake Knapp We believe they're going to choose it over Shopify and Etsy because our solution is cooperative and easy to use.
- ▶ 1:21:18 Jake Knapp Here's Shopify.
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- ▶ 11:03 Lenny Rachitsky I had Toby Lutke, a Shopify CEO on the podcast, and he had the same answer for what he's encouraging his kids to, uh, to develop his curiosity.
- ▶ 56:56 Mike Krieger And, and a few key people like Toby, I think is a great example at Shopify got it.
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- ▶ 59:20 Lenny Rachitsky That's something that stuck with me from my chat with Toby Lucky from Shopify.
Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 31:28 Aparna Chennapragada And I think the part of product development has to almost rewire ourselves to, I think Toby from Shopify calls it the reflexive AI usage.
Seth Godin's best tactics for building remarkable products, strategies, brands and more
- ▶ 26:51 Seth Godin They're making a, uh, a food product and they're saying we're going to distribute on Shopify and we're also going to sell
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about SAFe and the product owner role | Melissa Perri
- ▶ 52:56 Melissa Perri She worked at Shopify.
Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, and prioritizes intuition
- ▶ 0:51 Lenny Rachitsky Archie is VP of product and head of growth at Shopify, where he leads an org of over 600 people across product, design, engineering, data, ops, and growth marketing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:40 Lenny Rachitsky So what I want to do with our time together is to basically do kind of a living archeology of how Shopify grows and what you specifically have learned about growing a company like Shopify into those just juggernaut of a business that it's… 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:48 Archie Abrams The way we think about churn is really going back to Shopify as a kind of our mission and what we want to do, which is to increase the amount of entrepreneurship on the, on the internet. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:19 Lenny Rachitsky Comment on that, because it touches on something you said about how metrics aren't actually a driver of how you all think at Shopify. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:06 Archie Abrams You get a short, you get a lift on the, uh, a metric up front, a more short-term metric, number of people who become a paying shop, or number of people who make their first sale on Shopify's, and then you look a year later, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:18 Lenny Rachitsky And I know this is particular to Shopify and a platform and e-commerce, but I guess, is there anything that would be worth sharing of like, oh, here's a huge win that maybe we didn't expect? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:04 Archie Abrams So in Shopify's case, that might be like app store credits or things like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:04 Archie Abrams So in Shopify's case, that might be like app store credits or things like that.
- ▶ 29:47 Lenny Rachitsky Um, this is a good segue to, I wanna hear how you structure your growth team at Shopify. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:22 Archie Abrams We have sections and blocks that come, come pre-configured. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:19 Archie Abrams This is all come as all Toby of really making sure Shopify is so oriented around. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:55 Archie Abrams and I think, I think this is the fun thing about Shopify. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:47 Archie Abrams I think if it is, and I think Shopify, you know, a few years ago before maybe sometimes drifted into the mode of we are just going to build stuff and each kind of team is just going to build stuff, not really accountable for it.
- ▶ 1:01:18 Lenny Rachitsky So historically, Shopify has been very product-like growth, very organic. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:51 Lenny Rachitsky There's no Shopify CMO. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:19 Lenny Rachitsky Maybe we'll do round two as you learn more things at your time with Shopify. 3 times in the scene
Conscious leadership: Unlocking vision, strategy and purpose | JM Nickels (Uber, Waymo, DoorDash)
- ▶ 48:35 JM Nickels So the analogy I use is like Uber is to Amazon as DoorDash is to Shopify, if that makes sense, right? 3 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to paid growth | Timothy Davis (Shopify)
- ▶ 0:48 Lenny Rachitsky Timothy has led performance marketing for all of Shopify for the past two and a half years, and as a consultant has helped companies like Pinterest, LinkedIn, Redfin, and Eventbrite kickstart and scale the performance marketing teams.
- ▶ 7:39 Timothy Davis Uh, you're on Meta and you're looking at pictures of babies and cats, and then all of a sudden you see an ad for Shopify. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:52 Timothy Davis Um, we've run into some of this at, uh, Shopify and we definitely ran into this at, um, IBM.
- ▶ 48:09 Timothy Davis Shout out to Courtney and Nick, uh, that, that fantastic finance partners I have at Shopify. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:35 Timothy Davis The, the big companies of the world, the Pinterest, the Shopify's, the IBM's of the world tend to build things in house.
- ▶ 1:14:39 Timothy Davis I'm a firm believer at Shopify would call it GSD, getting shit done.
- ▶ 1:16:35 Timothy Davis Uh, because you know, every quarter, well, not every quarter, but most quarters you'll have like vacation or you'll have say what we call a Shopify burst where it's, uh, we meet in real, in real life to, you know, get you done in real life… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:40 Timothy Davis I bet you Shopify shows up as a close variant at some point or Square or anyone like that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:39:00 Lenny Rachitsky I, uh, I'm on the subscription plan and I think he uses Shopify to sell, uh, to sell it.
What most people miss about marketing | Rory Sutherland (Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, author)
- ▶ 23:00 Rory Sutherland Uh, the second example is Shopify, where their customer service teams are in groups of 10. 2 times in the scene
The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)
- ▶ 10:14 Lenny Rachitsky I saw a stat that at Shopify, over a million lines of code in their code base was written by co-pilot, which I don't know if I can do the math, but I imagine that's more than one person can, would have written in their lifetime.
Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, Airbnb, Lyft)
- ▶ 18:12 Katie Dill Shopify, Spotify X, which I believe you use.
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana)
- ▶ 9:11 Lenny Rachitsky So I just actually was talking to the, um, one of the heads of product at Shopify, and they went through a similar transition where they used to plan yearly, and now they plan for the next six months.
Leveraging growth advisors, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta)
- ▶ 0:47 Lenny Rachitsky Luke is currently the chief growth officer at Shopify.
- ▶ 6:00 Luc Levesque It's something of course that, that we focus on a lot at, uh, at Shopify, but it's that difference between, I don't care how hard you've worked.
- ▶ 11:53 Luc Levesque In fact, Toby did this as well at Shopify. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:21 Lenny Rachitsky Now you work at Shopify.
- ▶ 42:27 Lenny Rachitsky I imagine Shopify has a lot of SEO work that's happening right now with you there.
- ▶ 1:00:20 Lenny Rachitsky Here's a picture of you and Toby from Shopify.
Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
- ▶ 1:20:54 David Singleton So the ideas behind Stripe Connect came from working with companies like Lyft and Shopify in the very early days.
Driving alignment within teams, work-life balance, and the changing PM landscape | Nikita Miller
- ▶ 32:45 Lenny Rachitsky You probably know Ahrefs as one of the leading all-in-one SEO tools used by companies like Facebook, Uber, Shopify, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and thousands more.
The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
- ▶ 46:46 Lenny Rachitsky You probably know Ahrefs as one of the leading all-in-one SEO tools used by companies like Facebook, Uber, Shopify, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and thousands more.
Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)
- ▶ 39:15 Lenny Rachitsky You probably know Ahrefs as one of the leading all-in-one SEO tools used by companies like Facebook, Uber, Shopify, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and thousands more.
The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation, Simon-Kucher)
- ▶ 1:15:06 Madhavan Ramanujam Taking a maybe SaaS example, Shopify is one of my favorites in terms of, like, looking at the plants in terms of their benefit, like, what do they actually put out? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:50 Madhavan Ramanujam I, I remember something like the tagline for Shopify plus was fair pricing, unfair advantage.
The role of AI in new product development | Ryan J. Salva (VP of Product at GitHub)
- ▶ 2:29 Lenny Rachitsky Amplitude is the number one most popular analytics solution in the world, used by both big companies like Shopify, Instacart, and Atlassian, and also most tech startups.
The nature of product | Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group
- ▶ 14:03 Marty Cagan But all these companies, Stripe, Fabulous, Shopify, you know, look at what Slack has done, even props to Spotify.
The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
- ▶ 2:56 Lenny Rachitsky What did Gusto, Uber, Shopify, and AngelList
How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu
- ▶ 1:49 Lenny Rachitsky Amplitude is the number one most popular analytics solution in the world used by both big companies like Shopify, Instacart, and Atlassian, and also most tech startups.
How to create a winning product strategy | Melissa Perri
- ▶ 1:17 Lenny Rachitsky Amplitude is the number one most popular analytics solution in the world used by both big companies like Shopify, Instacart, and Atlassian, and also most tech startups.
How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken Norton, Ex-Google
- ▶ 1:11 Lenny Rachitsky Amplitude is the number one most popular analytics solution in the world, used by both big companies like Shopify, Instacart, and Atlassian, and also most tech startups.
- ▶ 39:29 Lenny Rachitsky What did Gusto, Uber, Shopify, and AngelList