Shopify
includes Shopify Sidekick, Shopify Magic, Shopify Editions, Shopify App Store, Shopify Search
10 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 31, 2024 by Glen Coates · said 65 times in 10 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Glen Coates (29), Elad Gil (19), Sarah Guo (13), Zach Lloyd (1), Jeremy Allaire (1), Eric Glyman (1), Bret Taylor (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 59 mentions in 5 episodes 12 per episode
- No Priors Ep. 49 | With Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates
- No Priors Ep. 85 | CEO of Braintrust Ankur Goyal
- No Priors Ep. 82 | With CEO of Sierra Bret Taylor
- No Priors Ep. 76 | With Ramp Co-Founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh
- No Priors Ep. 54 | With Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
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2023 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
Everything said about Shopify, oldest first
Jan 31, 2024 bullish
Coates: AI copilots remove UI complexity barriers for entrepreneurs
“AI brings us into the world of like, okay, well, what if we can give you the driver in the car who knows how all these switches work and can help you along without having to learn all the switches? It's probably one of the most powerful opportunities for more …”
Jan 31, 2024
Coates: Shopify's 2020 checkout 'code red' took 200-300 people for a year
“At least in my case, checkout code red in 2020 was, hey, the checkout is failing in, I don't know, three, four, five different ways. And the checkout is a pretty important part of Shopify, obviously. So let's go fix that. So we, me and, you know, somewhere bet…”
Jan 31, 2024 bullish
Jan 31, 2024 positive
Coates: Shopify consolidated from 12-15 business units down to 3-4
“There used to be 12 to 15 of these kind of fairly small fractured business units, and now there is actually only like three or four, which is actually truer to what the product is, but of course, each of those units is bigger than the ones that were before, so…”
Jan 31, 2024
Coates: Redundant systems at the same stack layer cause compounding upstream delays
“The real answer to how do you solve this problem is one is developing extremely good intuitions for when you are accidentally creating duplicates at the same layer of the stack. So you just never get into the problem in the first place. And then the second par…”
Jan 31, 2024 positive
Coates: High percentage of Shopify R&D leaders are former founders
“When I look at like my management team, the people who report to me, who each of these sort of nine or 10 people run R and D orgs that are like a couple hundred people each and almost like a very high percentage of those people are also founders, right?”
Jan 31, 2024 negative
Jan 31, 2024 positive
Jan 31, 2024
Coates: Shopify's AI rule is models can propose but never commit
“One of the principles that we have for all of the Shopify magic features today is that they're allowed to propose changes, but not commit changes, right? So they can like generate text, but they're not going to save it without you actually reading it and savin…”