Andrius Baranauskas

Advertising at @Shopify 🚀

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

@heysuganth Ufff. It’s pretty bad.

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

@Bencera I am sure that's coming as well, Ben.

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

One person $1B company is coming faster than expected.

[Ben Cera @Bencera]

Polsia just raised $30M at a $250M valuation.

Approaching $10M annual run rate.

One Founder + AI. Zero employees.

Polsia runs companies autonomously.

It also ran its own fundraising.

I just showed up for signatures.

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

RT @i_zerbib: 1 founder. 0 employees. $10M ARR. $30M raised.

@polsia today is the boldest example of what happens when AI agents stop bein…

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

Leaving Shopify after 5+ years. Very grateful for the chance to help grow Shop Pay, conceive Shop Cash, scale Shop Campaigns from 0, and lead the APM program.

@tobi has built a great company where you can build and ship. @carlrivera invited me here. He + @nejatian pushed me to the best version of myself.

@Shopify is packed with exceptional people. I can’t wait to see what they build next.

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

Proud of how Lithuania 🇱🇹 keeps showing up in @Shopify story quietly in interesting ways. From @OberloApp acquisition to builders inside the co to apps like @omnisend and @KachingAppz. Small country, increasing impact 🚀

[Atlee Clark @atleeclark]

Last year, the developers building on @Shopify took home $1.3B.

Behind that: a designer who bought his hometown football club with app revenue @malisauskasLT . Three co-founders who turned a lunch conversation into a $100M company @PostscriptIO. A builder who's been here since the first 100 apps and never looked back @isaacbowen.

When the ecosystem wins, merchants win. https://t.co/iSSNl86Hbd

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

The @Shop Pay mafia taking off 🚀

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Sapiom raises $15M to help AI agents buy their own tech tools https://t.co/0039kTMgIC

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

Toronto has the most beautiful weather.

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

This is also why UBI (Universal Basic Income) is incompatible with democracy. Create a mass of UBI recipients and you guarantee one thing: endless votes to increase it.

[Michelle Tandler @michelletandler]

Cea Weaver on rent-stabilized tenants as a voter block:

"So like you said, there are about 2.4 million people who live in rent-stabilized apartments in New York City.

And, you know, tenants really could be a difference maker in this mayoral election... Rent-stabilized tenants are a multiracial, multi-generational block of voters. They are not, we're not just talking about, you know, progressive young people.

We're not just talking about people who are already politicized.

We're talking about a potentially enormous working class voter block who are with us, because right now they're being forced to choose between childcare or groceries or healthcare, staying in New York at all.

Right? Um, so the importance of a rent freeze is not just about the rent, it's also about bringing working class people back, um, into it's civic, civic engagement."

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

I wrote an op ed for the @nationalpost today to say this plainly: Jewish Canadians are being targeted simply because they are Jewish. That is antisemitism. And it is getting worse.

https://t.co/i0gkJiIupu

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

Product Network is one of the highlights of @Shopify Winter ’26 Edition.

The future of marketing is brands working together. Shopify Collective enabled shared merchandising. This year, Shop Campaigns expanded that collaboration into post-checkout promotion.

Product Network goes further. Native, in-store recommendations from other brands. A seamless buyer experience: discover, explore, and buy without leaving the store. It’s the fastest path to converting more buyers and tackling the reality that 95%+ of visitors never convert. More customers, more revenue.

There is massive untapped potential to create demand outside existing walled gardens. Product Network is a meaningful step toward unlocking that opportunity, and growing success for brands.

Terrific job by Amanda, @joerj, Francesco, @jennystanchak, and many many others involved. Launching something so complex, so fast!

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Shopify Product Network lets you source and instantly sell products from other Shopify brands in your store, so you can still make the sale even when there's a product gap.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Entrepreneurs won BFCM, again.

→ Merchants’ sales globally were $14.6 billion, up 27% from last year
→ 81 million shoppers bought from Shopify-powered brands
→ 15,800+ entrepreneurs made their first sale
→ 136+ million packages tracked in the Shop App
→ 2.2 trillion edge requests
→ Processed and served 90 PB of data from our infrastructure
→ Handled 14.8 trillion database queries and 1.75 trillion database writes

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

The @Shop app hit #3 in the US App Store. Clearly, shopping + AI season 🚀

Huge thanks to buyers for trusting Shop with their BFCM purchases. And to brands for betting on growth through Shop Campaigns ads, on the app and beyond.

On to a strong December!

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Peak sales hit $5.1 (!) million per minute right around noon today across the Shopify platform.

https://t.co/M5xfYjG7KA

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

Group chats in ChatGPT are a big deal, no surprise the release is accelerated.

When our cat got sick this summer, we leaned on it for second opinions and guidance — but doing that in 1:1 chats never matched reality. In a family, these decisions happen together. Same for travel, home buying, career, finances.

Now ChatGPT reflects that, great.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Group chats in ChatGPT are now rolling out globally.

After a successful pilot with early testers, group chats will now be available to all logged-in users on ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus and Pro plans.

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

Lithuania 🇱🇹 and Europe can def build.
@vinted passes €10B GMV and €1B revenue in 2025!
Europe✅ – US next.
Here’s to the next €100B European company. 🚀
https://t.co/HnEo0neStE

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

@ankurnagpal @dunkhippo33 Yes!

[Andrius Baranauskas @jaudrius]

F1 does not really need FIA.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

@wjhtomwjh which is a nonsense metric: NBA has huge gini coefficient, but everyone is a millionaire. You would always accept higher gini if it leads to higher average and low household wealth. Hence GDP