My conversation with Tobi Lütke (@tobi), co-founder and CEO of Shopify.
0:00 Companies as Social Technology
5:27 The Value of Reading Books: Cheat Codes for Life
7:28 Post-IPO Crisis: Cosplaying as a CEO
7:54 Competition vs Rivalry: The Power of Healthy Competition
16:02 COVID
We're open-sourcing our latest versions of Decision Models: Decider v1.3 and Decider Flash v1.3, and making them free on @OpenRouter for a week.
The new capability in v1.3 models is "locate". This lets you describe what to find, and the model returns the matching text with
We're rolling out pplx-decider-v1.3 and pplx-decider-flash-v1.3, the latest version of our open-weight decision models.
v1.3 adds locate, a new feature that extracts spans based on type or instructions.
Now available in our Decisions API, @huggingface, and @OpenRouter.
Things I stole from @Shopify while I was at Stan:
1. Almost optimize for churn.
Shopify's mission is to increase entrepreneurship, so it makes starting as easy as possible knowing most businesses will fail. A few breakout merchants can make the economics of the entire cohort