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Tobi Lütke Interview 2026: Shopify Founder on AI and Canadian Startups

Summary by BestStartup.ca
There are CEOs who talk about AI. Then there is Tobi Lütke — the founder who sent his entire company a memo telling them to prove a human is needed before he hires one. Lütke built Shopify from a snowboard shop software side project in Ottawa into a $100 billion commerce platform that powers over two million businesses worldwide. He is not a Silicon Valley native. He is a German-born, Ottawa-based coder who simply refused to stop building. In 20…
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BestStartup.ca broke the news on Tuesday, October 13, 2026.
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