why aren't all 15 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Assertion Contradicted
Malinan: Shopify caps videos at full HD and lacks adaptive delivery
“Shopify limits your videos to full HD. You cannot have a video which is higher resolution than that. Also, they kill the quality. They don't have the adaptive delivery and just the overall performance is, is just terrible.”
Assertion Contradicted
Eruimy: Shopify locks users in by owning their merchant data
“Because Shopify, you, you're in a closed environment. So your data are owned by Shopify. And if you want to shift to something else, you have to rebuild your store from scratch.”
Assertion Partly supported
Omnisend is the number two Shopify marketing platform, 10x smaller than Klaviyo
“So actually, our direct competitor, number one, is Klaviyo. Yes, they are bigger than us. They are like, 10, 11 times bigger than us. They are very big in Shopify ecosystem. We're number two. You know, 10 times smaller, but still number two in the Shopify ecos…”
Assertion Partly supported
Shopify and Mindbody Generate 40% to 50% Transactional Revenue
“Shopify, MindBody, all these guys, they're all 40% to 50% transactional at this stage.”
Assertion Supported
Harris: Toast and Shopify derive 50% of revenue from fintech
“If you look at toast as a publicly traded company or Shopify as another, you know, 50% of their revenue is coming from fintech solutions.”
Assertion Partly supported
Amit RG: Shopify Plus has roughly 15,000 merchant stores
“Shopify plus are like 15,000 stores.”
Assertion Partly supported
Disco raised a $5M seed round with Shopify and Solana angels
“In our last round we raised five million US and we have incredible angels as well. Lots of interesting folks from Shopify Lambda School, Solana, Endeavor, very interesting people who are participating.”
Assertion Supported
Kumo hired the executive who built Shopify's channel partnership structure
“So we recently actually just hired the head of channel for Shopify and who originally set up the whole Shopify structure.”
Assertion Supported
Privy ranks as Shopify's #1 marketing app and #2 overall app
“Shopify.
[623] Nathan Latka: You didn't even hesitate.
[625] Ben Jabbawy: I mean, for sure, you know, that it's kind of like a rocket ship over there, and we've, we're the number one app in that ecosystem.
[632] Nathan Latka: For what category, like what searc…”
Assertion Supported
Rubin: Landmark client Death Wish Coffee is a top Shopify merchant
“December first, I have death wish coffee, which is one of our sort of landmark customers. They're one of the biggest Shopify customers on the platform. And so we're doing a webinar December first.”
Assertion Supported
Bhatia: Verbal Plus Visual Built the First Wine Integration on Shopify
“Shopify didn't allow you to do that before, and we worked with them, and we were the first wine integration on, on their site.”
Assertion Supported
Rubin: Fashion Nova is a top three Shopify store globally
“I think they're like,
Top three Shopify store in the world.”
Assertion Supported
Shopify strictly bans developers from incentivizing app store reviews
“It's, you're not allowed to actually incentivize reviews.”
Assertion Supported
Privy has accumulated over 15,000 reviews on the Shopify App Store
“So if you have 15,478 reviews on Shopify,”
Assertion Supported
Around.io charges $30 monthly on Shopify with a 20% platform fee
“We have a app on Shopify platform. So it's like 30 dollars a month. So people, when people use our app, that's what they pay us. I mean, of course, Shopify keeps that cut off 20%, but we get the rest.”