Two thousand six shop if i was born, and the idea was, what if we gave small businesses the same he commerce tools and function ality that traditionally only the biggest companies on the planet could afford? What would happen? And the end result is that one more people started businesses because the barret entry was lower. The likelihood of their success was higher, because we were removing so many different hurdles. We're trying to create thiss this product that makes it incredibly easy to sell anywhere. You have customers, whether they're on line or off line, on social media, ere at a farmer's market, they'r anywhere. I think that idea of retail being everywhere is what
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Harley Finkelstein, president of Shopify, to talk about the market mayhem (3:50), Shopify coming out of the shadows (5:25), how it got started (11:30), how Amazon have up on the online stores business (19:35), getting into delivery (22:45), the renewed Amazon threat (27:45), the future of direct-to-consumer commerce (31:30), how Apple has upended online ads (36:10), and the best and worst of going fully remote (38:30).
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