Shopify

Shopify is an e-commerce platform founded in 2006. The company offers a suite of tools and services that enable businesses to create and customize their own online stores, manage inventory and orders, process payments, and market their products. Tobi Lütke serves as CEO. Competitors include Amazon, WooCommerce, and Magento.

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Visa and Mastercard Are Moving Fast Into Stablecoins

By Yueqi Yang · Nov 21, 2025 6:00am PST
Visa and Mastercard are moving quickly to embrace cryptocurrencies for payments, to take advantage of the rising popularity of stablecoins in developing countries and fend off competition from merchants trying to circumvent their networks. The companies ramped up their crypto payments business overseas and have been looking for acquisitions or... Visa and Mastercard are moving quickly to embrace cryptocurrencies for payments, to take...
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Robotics Data Startup Raises $40 Million Led By Bessemer

By Rocket Drew · Nov 12, 2025 8:12am PST
Before we get to today’s column, Steph and Sri broke news Tuesday night about a flurry of investments VCs are making in so-called “neolabs,” or new labs hoping to exploit approaches to developing AI models and research they say major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic may have overlooked.These include companies like agent startup Isara, which... Before we get to today’s column, Steph and Sri broke news Tuesday night about a flurry of...
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How Anthropic’s Claude Code Helped Brex Write 80% of a New Codebase

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Nov 5, 2025 7:00am PST
Coding and financial services are two of the most common domains that people cite when I ask about the most promising applications of artificial intelligence. Now we have an example that combines both of them.Wednesday morning, corporate card issuer Brex announced a series of new “agentic” products, powered by Anthropic’s Claude models, that aim... Coding and financial services are two of the most common domains that people cite when I ask...
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How Shopify’s Leadership Shake-Up Affects Its Push for Growth

By Ann Gehan · Oct 29, 2025 6:00am PDT
Things have never been better for Shopify. The e-commerce firm’s stock is trading near all-time highs. And a recent deal with OpenAI has put Shopify in a position to capitalize on AI-fueled shopping by easily allowing its merchants to sell products through ChatGPT. And yet Shopify is seeing the kind of executive turnover normally associated with... Things have never been better for Shopify. The e-commerce firm’s stock is trading near all-time...
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Amazon and Shopify Sellers Face Crunch as E-Commerce Lenders Pull Back

By Theo Wayt and Ann Gehan · May 6, 2025 11:01am PDT
On Friday, Amazon sent many merchants selling goods on its e-commerce site a memo with pointers on how to navigate trade uncertainty amid steep U.S. tariffs. Suggestions included pivoting to selling in new countries and reshuffling inventory to different warehouses. Amazon also suggested merchants consider taking out loans, giving them funds to... On Friday, Amazon sent many merchants selling goods on its e-commerce site a memo with pointers...
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Shopify’s ‘Trojan Horse’ to Beat Salesforce

By Ann Gehan · Feb 7, 2025 6:00am PST
Shopify, best known for selling software and services to help small entrepreneurs run online shops, wants to boost its growth by landing bigger retailers as clients. One obvious target is merchants that use e-commerce software from enterprise giants like Salesforce, Adobe and Oracle. While Shopify has highlighted its success in winning some... Shopify, best known for selling software and services to help small entrepreneurs run online...