Coates: Shopify consolidated from 12-15 business units down to 3-4
Glen Coates · No Priors Ep. 49 | With Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates · Jan 31, 2024 · at 3:34
Glen Coates, VP of Core Product at Shopify, describes the organizational restructuring prompted by Shopify's 2020 checkout incident.
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“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 it actually requires you to lead in a slightly different way once you start grouping that many, much of the product and the people together.”
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