How many people in Shopify's executive group had prior public-company experience?

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The power of coaching, Tobias Lutke CEO Shopify - The Startup CEO show

13 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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This is a short transcript excerpt from a YouTube interview titled "The power of coaching, Tobias Lutke CEO Shopify - The Startup CEO show" (uploaded by Mark MacLeod on September 13, 2024). Tobias Lutke reflects on how projects that are slightly too hard accelerate personal and team growth—"you can have people go for 10 years of four clock career time in a year"—and recounts Shopify's IPO, noting that only one person in the ~20-person executive group had prior public-company experience.

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One person (out of approximately 20).

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Real life isn't like this. You can have people go for 10 years of four clock career time in a year, or with an extremely well chosen project that is just slightly too hard for who they are and what they can do, but create this sort of alignment, longing for accomplishing it anyway. And then people reach and further than they even thought was possible and it changes them in a way that it's just like a privilege to see. Then shopify IPO'd with a off executive team and the next level of a company. Only one person in the entire group of like 20 people ever worked for a public company.