Shopify CEO says friction in commerce is good to get rid of, but not challenge. If you strip away all the challenge out of commerce, what you're left with is a convenient store. Shopoy isn't a place to power convenience stores. That's not what we're about. One of the things we're proud of shopify is the biggest merchants who did not exist ten years ago are on our platform.
In this episode of Infinite Loops we spoke with Alex Danco of Shopify. In this wide-ranging discussion we cover:
- Alex’s first 6 months at Shopify
- Social Capital & SPACs
- How Twitter has changed status networks
- The rise of e-commerce
- Can Founders Lie?
- And much more
Follow Alex (https://twitter.com/Alex_Danco) on Twitter, and read his blog here http://alexdanco.com/ .