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Tobias "Tobi" Lütke MSC is a German/Canadian entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of Shopify, an e-commerce company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He has been part of the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created open source libraries such as Active Merchant. As of 2022, he was the 11th richest Canadian.
Nov 1, 2021 · Tobi Lütke, the founder and chief executive of Shopify Inc., whose online tools and services help its users manage retail businesses, expected many BlackBerry castoffs to join his growing company, which then had just 300 employees — a number Lütke expected to double within a year.
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Meet Tobias Lütke, co-founder of Ottawa-based e-commerce software giant Shopify and the purported saviour of Canada’s high-tech sector
Tobias Lütke is CEO and co-founder of Shopify, the marquee shopping cart system of the e-commerce industry. As a programmer Tobi has served on the core team of the Ruby on Rails...
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Shopify was founded in 2006 by Tobias Lütke and Scott Lake after attempting to open Snowdevil, an online store for snowboarding equipment. Dissatisfied with the existing e-commerce products on the market, Lütke, a computer programmer by trade, instead built his own.
May 8, 2021 · 40 year old Tobias Lütke grew up in Koblenz, Germany, and started writing code when he was 11 on his Schneider (aka Amstrad) computer. Dropping out of school at 16, he found an apprenticeship with Siemens. His boss was a guy named Jürgen Starr who Lütke idolised.
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Tobi Lutke is the cofounder and CEO of Shopify, a Canadian e-commerce firm that helps companies set up and run online stores. He owns about 6% of Shopify, which went public in 2015.