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A Conflict of Visions
“I think the best book I’ve read recently was A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell.”
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Tobi Lütke
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Because I think we do best if we are on the same side of a table of our customers and we had them become entrepreneurs, which is a mission, and we want to support them to be more successful, which is the business model we are in.
“Because I think we do best if we are on the same side of a table of our customers and we had them become entrepreneurs, which is a mission, and we want to support them to be more successful, which is the business model we are in.”
- Speaker
- Tobi Lütke
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / preference
If you want to hold the unquantifiable as things that are stable and exist ... That people actually do really defer to them and really actually learn to be okay with someone just saying, "Hey, this is actually just really great and they're shipping this" then you need to make certain edits to a business that don't remind everyone too much of the companies they might have come from which the only way to get promoted is by driving the metric up.
“If you want to hold the unquantifiable as things that are stable and exist ... That people actually do really defer to them and really actually learn to be okay with someone just saying, "Hey, this is actually just really great and they're shipping this" then you need to make certain edits to a business that don't remind everyone too much of the companies they might have come from which the only way to get promoted is by driving the metric up.”
- Speaker
- Tobi Lütke
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
03 / preference
I also think you can make a case that a good number exists because of Shopify, because what we've observed is that this was actually, it's my favorite thing in the entire Shopify journey that we sort of rigorously determined, which is that because I really, really, really prioritize good UX, legible interfaces.
“I also think you can make a case that a good number exists because of Shopify, because what we've observed is that this was actually, it's my favorite thing in the entire Shopify journey that we sort of rigorously determined, which is that because I really, really, really prioritize good UX, legible interfaces.”
- Speaker
- Tobi Lütke
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
04 / preference
ere would be if you could hire people everywhere. And so once that decision flipped, you can see how this is actually now super easy to say, "We are going to remote," because there is no turning back.
“ere would be if you could hire people everywhere. And so once that decision flipped, you can see how this is actually now super easy to say, "We are going to remote," because there is no turning back.”
- Speaker
- Tobi Lütke
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
05 / preference
I probably don't conform to the traditional view of what the most of public companies should be like or even should spend their time, but I think I'm successful because I don't try to conform to anything other than what I've learned works.
“I probably don't conform to the traditional view of what the most of public companies should be like or even should spend their time, but I think I'm successful because I don't try to conform to anything other than what I've learned works.”
- Speaker
- Tobi Lütke
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
06 / preference
So clearly the better input there would be if you could hire people everywhere. And so once that decision flipped, you can see how this is actually now super easy to say, "We are going to remote," because there is no turning back.
“So clearly the better input there would be if you could hire people everywhere. And so once that decision flipped, you can see how this is actually now super easy to say, "We are going to remote," because there is no turning back.”
- Speaker
- Tobi Lütke
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
07 / preference
You want to be able to add something. This is also why ignorance is usually useful because you should be ignorant to the low odds in the beginning, one of the reasons why at least some founders often are young.
“You want to be able to add something. This is also why ignorance is usually useful because you should be ignorant to the low odds in the beginning, one of the reasons why at least some founders often are young.”
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- Tobi Lütke
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
08 / preference
I’m actually a fan of rewriting books every — I don’t know — 25, 50 years for two generations down the line because they just get hard to access.
“I’m actually a fan of rewriting books every — I don’t know — 25, 50 years for two generations down the line because they just get hard to access.”
- Speaker
- Tobi Lütke
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler