Shopify Did It Democratize Tech or Damage the Industry #strugglebus #ecommerce #shopify #retail

14 Oct 2025 · 0 min

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Vinny O Brien argues that Shopify democratized tech by lowering barriers to entry for small businesses, but questions whether it also made the industry more fragile and less scalable.

But the fact Shopify have done so much to— God, it's going to kill me to say this, but to democratize technology. We should just shut down the podcast right now because I said that. But the fact they've actually gone and done that, the lowering the barrier to entry is my point. Have they made a more fragile industry for us? Those things don't exist anymore. So there's a lot more businesses now and a lot less scale now.

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