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AI Summary
- Tobi Lütke built Shopify from frustration with existing e-commerce solutions, creating his own platform using Ruby on Rails after launching Snowdevil, an online snowboard shop.
- Under his leadership as CEO since 2008, Shopify grew from a single shop to the world's leading e-commerce platform powering over 4 million merchants across 175+ countries, reaching $200+ billion market capitalization.
- Lütke became known for democratizing e-commerce tools, contributing to open-source development, and championing accessible entrepreneurship despite dropping out of school after tenth grade in Germany.