Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke: It’s impossible to make great products if you don’t give a sh*t
“Every product in the world, at the end of the day, is simply a reflection of how much the people who created it gave a sh*t… It is not possible to make great products if the people who work on it do not give a sh*t about the product.”
Tobi continues:
“I actually think this is a very important role for product leaders: To make sure that the team gives a sh*it… The product leader has to give a sh*t. Do not engage in work on a product that you don’t care about.”
Tobi believes anyone who wants to build great products has two roles:
1. “You have to understand the thing that’s being done better than everyone else.”
2. “You’ve got to be exothermically infectious with actually caring about this thing because just that one thing alone will make a 10x better product. It’s crazy how much of a change this makes.”
Video source: @lennysan (2025)
@WallStreetApes Probably just a case of embers getting to that house and the firefighters protecting those around it because it was too far gone. There were reports of 8-foot pieces of brush/trees flying through the air with the winds.
"The best designers and the best programmers aren’t the ones with the best skills, or the nimblest fingers, or the ones who can rock and roll with photoshop or vim, they are the ones that can determine what just doesn’t matter. That’s where the real gains are made."
In any organization/product it's much easier to add complexity than remove it.
This is a fun initiative we're taking in Jan to streamline and simplify: Delete Week
HT to @tobi and others for the inspiration
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“So next time you hear something, or someone, talk about an idea, pitch an idea, or suggest an idea, give it five minutes. Think about it a little bit before pushing back, before saying it’s too hard or it’s too much work.” 🎯 https://t.co/HAHv5ql5kc
What an amazing journey this is.
I'm so excited about the next season!
Some spoilers:
🚀 Improved products and seamless integration
🏦 Super efficient investment management
🧠 More brilliant minds joining our team
🚀 Exciting News: Timeline Raises £10 Million Series B Funding & Surpasses £3 Billion AUM 🚀
We're delighted to announce a £10m Series B funding round while also reaching the £3bn AUM milestone, positioning us firmly on the path to doubling in size by the end of 2023. 📈✨
I just published a project I worked on 2 months ago. It curates a dataset of #SatoshiNakamoto emails and posts responding to users, into +600 Q&As
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You can visualize them here: https://t.co/7DIWPVYKYt
Q1 figures are in!
- Smashed through the £2bn client AUM, entrusted to us by planners
- Signed 466% more firms than we did in Q1 2022, and already signed 60% of the number of firms we did in the entire 2022! 🤯
Delighted to welcome some fantastic planning firms to the fold. 🤗
Massive thanks to the insanely brilliant @Timeline_Tech team and the amazing financial planners who made it all possible. 🙏🏽
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As we head into the holidays and 2022 draws to a close, @AbrahamOnMoney takes a moment to reflect on the year. Read his festive update here🎄👉https://t.co/9H6mqin38b
#happyholidays#christmasupdate
Had @Timeline_Tech in to come and present our investment proposition to some of our new advisers. To quote one of them ‘It’s like going from a reliant robin to a Ferrari’ referencing their old proposition 😎
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