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Shopify's "Leaked" Internal CEO Memo #venturecapital #tech #investing #podcast #duet #ai

12 Apr 2025 · 0 min

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Precursor Ventures (YouTube) discusses reactions to a "leaked" internal Shopify memo, speculating about its future visibility in media and how startups and public-market investors might interpret Shopify's stance on AI. The speaker expresses curiosity about follow-up stories and interviews that could surface a year or months later.

So I think it's a really clear statement. I'll be curious to see a year from now when somebody says, I wonder what happened with that Shopify memo? Or in six months on Business Insider interviews five Shopify employees about how they use it. I'm very curious to see, but I assume the message for that was startup companies who thought in their pitch, hey, we're going to like out AI, Shopify, and public market investors who might be concerned that Shopify isn't taking AI sufficiently serious.