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20VC: Shopify's Tobi Lütke on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & What Will Labour Markets Be in the Future | Why We Need More Scrutiny on Charitable Giving, Governments are Bad at What They Do and Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada
Montag, 4. Mai 2026 · 1 h 14
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Tobi Lütke is the co-founder and CEO of Shopify, the global e-commerce titan with a $160 billion market cap. Under his leadership, the company generates over $7 billion in annual revenue and has seen its valuation grow nearly 100x since its 2015 IPO. Today, Shopify has over 8,000 employees and AI now generates over 50% of the Shopify's code.
AGENDA:
- The $160 billion CEO who did not want to be CEO.
- Why don't companies become public? Because it is much worse to be an untrusted public company.
- Why we are about to enter a golden age of entrepreneurship.
- Why AI is being used as a scapegoat for mass layoffs.
- How will labor markets change in a world of AI?
- Why we should praise Elon Musk so much more than we do.
- Why we need to place more, not less, scrutiny on charitable giving.
- Why we have too many charity dollars and why they are inefficient.
- Why governments are so bad at what they do.
- The Trump derangement syndrome in Canada.
- Why will governments regulating technology push us into the hands of the Chinese?
- Europe has to get rid of the bullshit green parties and go back to Prussian economics.
- Why is looking at the ticker such bullshit?
- Why young coders are not as advantaged in AI as I thought they would be.
- The best engineers in Shopify are not writing code anymore and the AI does it for them.
- The cheat code for any career from the billionaire founder of Shopify.