Tobi Lütke's Ottawa e-commerce platform — enabling merchants to build online stores — the dominant SMB e-commerce platform globally, with its merchant ecosystem being its core product.
Creates the merchant-first e-commerce platform — Shopify's strategic bet on arming merchants to compete against Amazon (rather than becoming a marketplace like Amazon) produced the most powerful merchant platform in e-commerce.
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