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Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: belief
2 Feb 2025 Lenny's Podcast Tobi Lütke’s leadership playbook: Playing infinite games, operating from first principles, and maximizing human potential (founder and CEO of Shopify)
“The way I think about this, people always talk about Y Combinator and Stanford and all these places that create all these companies and founders.”
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- Speaker
- Lenny Rachitsky
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- belief
- Recorded
- 2 Feb 2025
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
Transcript context
…... wrote a book of a similar title. I've actually never gotten around to read it, but I think he would be very good at interpreting this if that's what he did. That's what it sounds like. I feel like his book is that book, written in a different way. I want to come back to something you talked about, which is focusing on entrepreneurship and the merchants that you all work with. To me, this is another example of maximizing human potential. The way I think about this, people always talk about Y Combinator and Stanford and all these places that create all these companies and founders. If you think about it, Shopify does this orders of magnitude beyond, and I don't think you guys get enough credit for that, the amount of businesses you create, the amount of lives you change. That's because we don't want the credit. That's the point.…
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