Today Shopify announced Fridays off for R&R through August. A response to lower rates of vacation being scheduled, despite the increased mental pressure from the changing times that we’re in. And, we also have no meeting Wednesdays (since before it was cool) THIS. IS. THE. PLACE
In 30 min we board a flight going back to Sweden. In 24 hours I will see my parents again for the first time in 18 months, who will meet my 8 month old daughter for the 1st time. Having some real butterflies 🦋
This. Is. Big.
@shop
is as of today one of the default checkout options on IG, to be rolled out on FB over the next few weeks. This marks the beginning of our expansion beyond Shopify, and the end of wondering “where’s my order?”
When I joined Shopify, my friends bet that I would last a year tops before starting my next thing… that I would be miserable in a big company. Honestly, I thought so too.
@shopify
might be large but it runs small: it’s bold and acts with conviction. It’s a place for founders
Shopify has 5 VPs of Product. Four of us are ex-founders. The other one was an NCAA heptathlete.
A lot of what makes Shopify special is that it is full of founders and people who take an obscene amount of ownership over every problem.
Product as a craft has become so over-intellectualized that bad decisions are hiding all over the place behind customer frameworks, mission docs, research papers, and product principles.
Most people still think of Shopify as an online store creator, when in reality it’s the platform on which the future of entrepreneurship is built — welcome Shopify Balance
Big banks have held small businesses hostage—with hidden fees, low daily limits, and holds on accessing THEIR OWN money.
So we built Shopify Balance: a money management account and card for U.S. small businesses.
No hidden fees. No low limits. No BS.
Working at
@Shop
is like being at a startup with unreal scale. We have some really big plans for 2021. If you're in product and thinking about your next steps, ping me 🎉
It’s no secret that fast checkouts = sales. DID YOU KNOW that
@shop
Pay completes more checkouts than Apple, Google and Amazon pay combined? 😮
Well, now you do. Here’s more ways Shop Pay is changing the game.👇
Tomorrow over 300 people that work on
@shop
meet for the first time. it’s hard to appreciate how fast a team is growing without empty coffee containers and bathroom lines to remind you. You just feel the engine roar more loudly under the hood. Can’t wait to see what’s inside 🏎🏁
Today we proudly announce that Shopify, for the first time ever, is opening up services to non-Shopify merchants by making
@shop
pay available to *all* merchants selling Google & Facebook, truly making commerce better for everyone
I don’t brag about this enough. My wife
@babbarivera
is building a company () that’s crushing it in every measurable way. I get her investor updates and it’s so inspiring to see this fierce side of her running through obstacles. Proud to be on her team
Continuing this thread with a personal update. Today my wife, who has a *slightly* bigger following than me, made it official that our family is about to grow a little bigger
❤️
Say 'hello' to your new shopping BFF: the
@Shop
app's ChatGPT powered assistant is ready to talk products, trends, and maybe even the meaning of life 🤖
Today I make good on one of my New Years resolutions, to fully lean into remote work life, and pack up the family and head to Dominican Republic for a few weeks ☀️ goal is to find a place where we can escape NY for January & February yearly ❄️
Decided to make pasta wearing a tuxedo tonight - I’m either refusing to let COVID limit my life, or COVID has now fully defeated my sanity. Glass half full / half empty situation
🚨 SPOTTED ShopPay on a non-Shopify website!
Everlane's site is built on a homegrown CMS & now has ShopPay.
ShopPay + Shopify's credibility amongst enterprise co’s will be the death of every single 1-click checkout business.
This will be... fast!
Nice work
@harleyf
😉
For five years, I have written myself a letter, reflecting on the year that's been and what goals I have for the year that is to come. I schedule it to be delivered on New Year's day, and let me tell you, this is the most amazing gift you can give yourself. Notes threaded (1/4)
When hiring, I love the candidates that got both 1 and 5-star reviews. Risk and Reward have a tendency to go hand-in-hand, and these are the people that have the most outsized impact. I call this group ‘not-for-everyone’ and we have a few of them at Shopify
#onesandfives
The big winner of the 2021 Xmas was
@Shopify
. Why? because millions & millions of customers were introduced to their amazing "Shop Pay" product offering. Basically it's a singular eWallet across all Shopify stores storing addresses, CC
#s
, etc. This enables 1-click for all. (more)
Recruiters on LinkedIn: Become CEO for this publically traded multibillion-dollar company with four-digit growth rates. Please just contact us!
Job-ads on LinkedIn: Based on your profile, we think this job as Retail-Intern at Foot Locker would be a strong fit. Apply immediately!
This is a pretty big deal. On the backs of the FB announcement not long ago and now this, Shop Pay is quickly becoming the favorite way to pay across the web
🎉some news🎉
Shop Pay just keeps getting better. Today, we’re announcing that shoppers can soon buy on
@Google
from a
@Shopify
merchant using Shop Pay — our super-fast, one-tap checkout.
Find out more👇
Just received my iPad mini with
@shop
engraved pen! I think iPads are the most amazing creative tools; now have my pro permanently docked to the computer as a whiteboard running Miro and will use the mini as my on the go device, replacing a notebook
Since the
@shop
launch in April we’ve been topping the downloads in the AppStores, and we’re only getting started... in this open convo with
@kepano
I talk about where we’re going next
🚨 Most impactful and interesting role I have ever announced 🚨 Looking for a senior leader with solid experience managing high growth at scale to join the
@shop
leadership team – we're already transacting $bs and are just getting started...
10 years ago I started Tictail with not one, but three cofounders. We went from my studio apartment as our main office to our real office being where I slept most nights. Priorities change: from raising money to be raising kids. What stays are friendships. My brothers 🙏🏻
Thanks
@postcarl
,
@siavashg
&
@kajdro
. It’s been an epic & wonderful journey with you! Not working with you was/is the hardest part of leaving – I admire and love you, dearly.
One of the products I am most proud to have worked on is the relaunch of our Apprentice Product Manager (APM) program – a world-class 12 month rotation giving an opportunity to launch a product career at Shopify. Do you have what it takes? Then go to:
The state of Online Small Business in America:
Amazon said that independent companies on its platform crossed the $4.8 billion mark in global sales on the BFCM weekend, a 60% uptick.
Shopify announced sales of $5.1+ billion, a 76% uptick.
📦 📈 🚀
When I moved to NY in 2014 it felt like I came home for the first time. IMO it's the most amazing city in the world. And while everything has been turned upside down, you can always count on NY coming back stronger. Excited for
@shop
to play a small role in our city reopening
New York will never be dead. Entrepreneurship thrives here, it's a city full of gritty entrepreneurs who are the soul of NYC. Tomorrow we open the doors to our new
@Shopify
NY Space in SoHo - a hub for entrepreneurs to grow, learn and connect. Join us👇
The Shop-mafia will definitely be a thing - so much talent in this group it’s crazy. I’m very excited about what we will achieve together, but also what everyone in this photo will go on to do with those learnings after. Learn more
Tomorrow over 300 people that work on
@shop
meet for the first time. it’s hard to appreciate how fast a team is growing without empty coffee containers and bathroom lines to remind you. You just feel the engine roar more loudly under the hood. Can’t wait to see what’s inside 🏎🏁
I come from humble beginnings. Father is an actor, mom is an artist. I never went to university. I used to think of my success as an underdog story. I am now recognizing it as one of white privilege
Today I make good on one of my New Years resolutions, to fully lean into remote work life, and pack up the family and head to Dominican Republic for a few weeks ☀️ goal is to find a place where we can escape NY for January & February yearly ❄️
Wanted to try Fiverr so launched a project to create a logo for my Tictail co-founder group-chat (“SCBK” for
@siavashg
,
@postcarl
,
@birk
,
@kajdro
). 24hrs turn-around and here we are two weeks later 😛 internet is cool
Tipping my hat to the
@Shopify
team for the flawless execution of Shop Pay and the Shop app. I find myself buying more things because of lower checkout friction and peace of mind of easy centralized tracking in the app. More merchants will use Shopify as a result of it.
Will always have respect for a team taking risk and going after a big goal - Fast is no different. I’m sure they had a great team and that this experience makes many of them even better. I wish them all the best and hope we see some end up at
@shop
Someone DMd me on twitter asking for a job at
@shop
. I asked if they had also applied via the Shopify jobs page. They said no and asked me to share the link to our jobs page. Made the decision pretty easy
Senior talent trap:
*a lot* of really talented people apply to Shopify and it’s easy to be tempted to create roles to make space for them - almost always though it’s better to center the org around few people with high leverage than slice it into groups with high dependencies
Wow, finally official! Welcome
@primersupply
to our 🚀 -
@heyadam
and
@StrangeNative
are just incredible design-led founders and I can’t wait to see them bring their product vision to life at
@shop
. Huge unlock 🔐
👋 The Primer team is joining Shopify!
🛍 We’ve always believed the future of commerce is immersive and admired Shopify's progress in democratizing commerce.
🎉 We’re excited to build immersive shopping experiences on a massive scale at Shopify.
✍️:
Over the past 12 months my beyond incredible wife
@babbarivera
built a person and developed a brand from scratch. Last week she delivered our beautiful baby Alma and today she launched
@myceremonia
🥰🥳
Real estate is so broken. In what other industry does the person representing you share upside with the person you are negotiating against? I have to believe there’s an opportunity to change this. Who is trying to fix this?
Let me remind you, it’s been 9 months since our launch. The power of
@shopify
combined with the insane pace of
@shop
is unlike anything I’ve seen. Last year was all about building our foundation, this year will be product acceleration - this is the first of many leaps
Incredible opportunity to begin a career as a product manager at one of the world's most innovative companies 🚀 ✅ This is the place where our future product leaders start their journeys - from anywhere in the world! 🌎 Apply:
Me: first to announce 1 day weekly R&R
@Shopify
Twitter: wow! *5 billion likes*
Me, now famous on Twitter: now let me share some thoughts about the world
Twitter: ......
🤷🏼♂️
Today Shopify announced Fridays off for R&R through August. A response to lower rates of vacation being scheduled, despite the increased mental pressure from the changing times that we’re in. And, we also have no meeting Wednesdays (since before it was cool) THIS. IS. THE. PLACE
“Only 58 Latina founders have ever raised $1 million+ in venture funding.
@babbarivera
is one of those pioneering Latina’s.” — yes!!! Awesome story on
@Forbes
covering the most inspiring person I know 🥰
Advertising gets a bad rep. It’s how small businesses become big - after all, what is a brand without an audience? So it sucks that in an effort to make the internet more private, small brands had to pay the price with CACs up ~2x. I’m proud that $shop is doing something about it
👏🏿👏🏾THANK YOU 👏🏽👏🏻Together we’ve donated over $100k!
Attaching the breakdown of donations submitted. I’ve listed the top 6 organizations supported, and bundled the rest of the 49 organizations. In total, we received 756 donation receipts supporting a total of 54 organizations(!)
We’re actively scaling our European teams, and I’m looking for senior PMs and Designers to build the most amazing way to
@shop
from your phone. Who should I talk to?
I was on my very first podcast. There's an accompanying video meaning my penchant for talking with my hands is fully captured 😄
Pleasure talking with host
@LolaOye
and colleague
@elefontpress
about all things
@shop
and
@ShopifyUX
This year we launched
@shop
- a platform aimed to give buyers better way to pay, manage all their online shopping, and stay in touch with their favorite brands. We’re
#3
in Shopping in the US, and we’re just getting started. We’re hiring across EST - CET:
The unmentioned obstacle to scaling a high performing team is the OK’ish performing employee. Companies have processes to reward high-achievers and weed out poor performance, but the growing middle of ‘just good enough’ eventually becomes the pace at which all things move. (1/2)
Through our partnership with
@Affirm
, we're now taking another large step towards making
@shop
the most important conversion and retention tool for modern businesses. Shop Pay Installments is now available to all!
Proud to work with superstars like
@melwsho
that beyond bringing this collection to life in a matter of days, is herself also an entrepreneur. Check out her awesome brand
@asom_canada
and others in our new Shop collection focused on Asian-owned businesses
We’ve created a directory of Asian-owned businesses on the Shop app selling everything from cookware to clothing. Let’s show our support for these incredible entrepreneurs 💜.
Some movies just have to be watched on the big screen! I watched Matrix resurrection on a flight — surprisingly it should have been watched on a smaller screen, or ideally on no screen at all
Shopify is the entrepreneurship company, defined by the merchants we support AND the people we hire. The best reason to leave is to start a new co, and when it happens, it’s something to celebrate (and sometimes I’m lucky enough to invest). Like
@mason_app
: Figma for Data LFG👏🏻
This is why people that don’t like the work are unfit to work at the company. Input is output - building a bright future requires a great deal of optimism to not turn dystopian
That there is not an option to send a google doc as an email (not as an attachment) and that copy-paste from docs into gmail breaks all formatting is actually a crime
One of my favorite job interview questions is: if you joined Shop today, which would be the first 3-5 metrics you would look at to understand our performance, and why. It sets the stage for a ton of great follow-up conversations about product strategy. So.. which would you pick?
We just released tonssss of new features in this
@Shopify
Edition. Tomorrow,
@glencoates
,
@postcarl
, and I are here to answer your questions. Ask us anything 👀
Join us TOMORROW, Feb. 1st at 1pm EST right here on Spaces for a live AMA🔔
We did an hour long discussion on design-led product development but this intro is really all you need to see. TL;DR: great products aren’t built in docs
A few months ago
@postcarl
@jericksondesign
and myself sat down to talk about why being design driven as a product organization makes sense for us
@shop
and
@Shopify
@ShopifyUX
I turned it into a 4 episode video series we released internally. Here’s a peek at episode 1 👀
Shop Pay is killing it. It accounts for over 25% of our revenue now.
And Shop Pay Installments is around 8% of rev. (Klarna is around 1%)
So I AB tested Shop Pay installments messaging vs Klarna messaging, and saw 18% increase in sales and 16% in CVR.
Damn 😳
You think Shopify will ever launch a centralized login, "Sign in with Shop” or whatever. Would be cool not creating 100 billion accounts for every Shopify store 💀
I’m not exaggerating,
@shop
is the most exciting opportunity in commerce right now. If you’re a developer (mobile, web, backend, low level, high level) or a development manager looking for a place to make an impact, hit me up. DMs are open.
Today is
@Shopify
’s birthday (aka SHOP DAY). 17 years ago, we launched Shopify to make commerce better for everyone. Today we power millions of businesses. To celebrate our birthday we're giving away $1 million in Shop Cash. So if you want free Shop Cash click link below 👇
We’re on a mission to build the most amazing way to shop from your phone - and AR is key to unlock this future.
@StrangeNative
also happens to be one of the best design driven product leaders in the world. Come work with us!
Since joining
@shopify
the
@primersupply
team has made seamless AR shopping available to millions of merchants and buyers in the Shop app.
We're democratizing the next major evolution in commerce and we’re just getting started. Come build with us 👇
We dropped +100 products & updates at
@Shopify
Editions. You’ve probably got questions. Tomorrow is the time to ask.
Join
@glencoates
,
@postcarl
,
@cynthiasavard
, and I on Twitter Spaces tomorrow at 11AM ET for an AMA.
See you there 👊