Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
6 Aug 2019 Acquired The Shopify IPO
“To give you a quick sense before we dive in, he tweeted last year, “I firmly believe that I learned more about building businesses from playing Starcraft than I've learned from business books.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 6 Aug 2019
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- The Shopify IPO
Transcript context
…Not bad for a pivot. No, 218 million people have bought from a store powered by Shopify, the vast, vast majority of which do not have any awareness that they did that and that is equivalent to almost all adults in the United States—also not bad. The Founder and CEO, Tobias Lütke is an absolutely fascinating character that I can't wait to dive in on the history and facts here. To give you a quick sense before we dive in, he tweeted last year, “I firmly believe that I learned more about building businesses from playing Starcraft than I've learned from business books. ” He might be right having read a lot of business books and played a lot of Starcraft in my day.…
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