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Finkelstein: Shopify GMV ranks second behind Amazon in US online retail
“If you pretend we were retailer, we would be the second largest online retailer in America after Amazon.”
Courtney: Shopify and Duolingo mandate AI proficiency for all hires
“Both Shopify and Duolingo came out saying basically all of the employees have to learn all the AI tools, plus they're not going to hire people who don't know how to use the tools anymore. So it's now an entry requirement.”
Finkelstein reveals Supreme finally migrated its online store to Shopify
“Supreme was one of the stores that I always wanted on Shopify, like, for decades, for, like, as long as I've been in Shopify, I wanted Supreme on, and they came on on January, in January to Shopify”
Shopify Launched E-Commerce Conversion Simulation Using Synthetic AI Audiences
“A few weeks ago, I think Toby from Shopify launched a feature where it was like, you launch your e-commerce store, but like, Based on synthetic AI audiences, here's how they would perform. Here's how your conversion rate would look like. Here's the products th…”
Isenberg: Founders Should Evaluate App Ecosystems by App-to-User Ratios
“4.6 million users. Which is a whole other framework for thinking about when you want to create software in one of these app ecosystems, look at how many apps are in the ecosystem versus how many users are”
Ottawa meetup Fresh Founders produced Shopify, Getaround, and other major startups
“And that actually led to Fresh Founders, which was the group of a number of us that got together every Friday. And we created a tribe of our own of entrepreneurs in a city that is not inherently entrepreneurial. And funny enough, that, that group that we creat…”