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The Shopify IPO

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The History of Yahoo! Stores and the Inception of Ruby on Rails

Discover the unusual history of Yahoo stores, which started as an acquisition of Vo We Va Web Ovy Gad for $49 million. Learn how Toby got introduced to Ruby on Rails in 2004 through a friend who recommended it as a new web development framework, and how it was built by David Heinemeier Hanson at 37signals using the obscure programming language called Ruby.

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