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Tobi Lütke

Tobi Lütke is a German-born Canadian programmer who co-founded Shopify, which grew out of his 2004 online snowboard store Snowdevil and launched as a platform in 2006.

b. 1980 Co-founder and CEO of Shopify

What they did and why it matters

Lütke helped make it easy for any brand to sell online, which created much of the independent e-commerce volume that 3PLs now serve. Frustrated with existing store software while running Snowdevil, he wrote his own and turned it into Shopify, a hosted platform that lets merchants open a store without building one. Its app ecosystem and APIs connect stores to warehouse management systems, shipping software, and 3PLs. For many direct-to-consumer brands, the Shopify order feed is the starting point of fulfillment, so integration quality with it directly affects order accuracy and speed.

Events

Sources

  1. Tobias Lütke (Wikipedia) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Shopify: Tobias Lütke (NPR How I Built This) npr.org