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#152 Tobi Lütke: Calm Progress

2022/11/15
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Tobi Lütke: 本次访谈中，Lütke 分享了他作为Shopify首席执行官的经验，包括如何在快速变化的环境中领导公司，如何应对官僚主义，以及如何保持创新。他强调了坚持公司核心战略和目标的重要性，并阐述了创始人与专业经理人在领导风格上的差异。他认为创始人拥有公司创始故事赋予的合法性，能够更容易地进行减法，去除冗余，而专业经理人则需要通过战略和利益相关者管理来实现同样的目标。他还谈到了公司应该为员工创造一个安全的内部环境，鼓励他们承担风险，并把失败视为学习的机会。在薪酬方面，他分享了Shopify如何从复杂的股票期权模式转变为更简单、更透明的模式，让员工有更多选择权。他还讨论了企业可以从编程中学习到的经验教训，以及如何保持冷静，应对压力。 Shane Parish: Parish 作为主持人，引导了与Lütke的对话，并就领导力、创新、风险承担、官僚主义、薪酬体系等方面提出了问题，并对Lütke的观点进行了总结和补充。他引导Lütke深入探讨了这些话题，并帮助听众更好地理解Lütke的观点。

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My guest today is Shopify co-founder and CEO Tobi Lütke.  We discuss the differences between founders and professional managers, how he’s scaled with Shopify, the constant fight against bureaucracy, how he thinks about innovation in a large company, and how he manages to keep his head when everyone else is losing theirs.

 

A coder at heart who emigrated from Germany to Canada two decades ago, Lütke co-founded the e-commerce giant Shopify in Ottawa in 2006. The Globe and Mail named Lütke "CEO of the Year" in November 2014,  and in May 2021 the company reported that it had more than 1.7 million businesses in approximately 175 countries using its platform. As of July 2022, Shopify is among the top 20 largest publicly traded Canadian companies by market capitalization, and the company’s total revenue for 2021 was $4.611 billion. Lütke previously appeared on Episode 41 of The Knowledge Project).

 

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