Tobias Lütke

Founder & CEO

Co-founder and CEO of Shopify. Born in Koblenz, Germany, self-taught programmer who immigrated to Canada in 2002. Built the original Shopify e-commerce platform in Ruby on Rails after struggling to find good software to sell snowboards online. Core contributor to Ruby on Rails and creator of the Active Merchant library.

Overview

Companies
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Roles
Founder & CEO

Companies

1 company
Shopify $122M
Public Founder & CEO

E-commerce platform enabling businesses to create online stores, manage inventory, process payments, and sell across multiple channels including web, mobile, social media, and physical retail via Shopify POS, powering millions of merchants worldwide.

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