Tobi Lütke is still captivated by internet commerce, 20 years later
Tobi Lütke is still captivated by internet commerce, 20 years later  
Podcast: Cheeky Pint
Published On: Mon Oct 06 2025
Description: Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins John Collison to discuss the philosophies driving one of the internet’s most foundational companies. Tobi shares his perspective on why companies are a form of technology, how internal tools and "opinionated software" shape an organization's culture and accelerate its evolution, and why the best gift is finding a beautiful, unsolvable problem.Show notes[Buy] Momax: 140W Universal Travel Adapter[Read] Benjamin Bloom: The 2 Sigma Problem[Buy] Ikigai: vitamin cases [Read] Kevin Kelly: 1,000 True Fans[Read] Erich Gamma: Design Patterns [Read] Charles Calomiris: Fragile by Design[Listen] Business Breakdowns: Formula One[Watch] Netflix: Formula 1: Drive to Survive[Read] Mark Robichaux: Cable CowboyKey Moments(00:00) Intro(07:07) How internal software shapes culture(16:32) The Shopify vision(27:49) Peak transaction capacity(34:36) Agentic commerce(49:15) Shop Pay(55:29) Stablecoins(59:20) Stripe + Shopify(1:12:23) Learning from the Coinbase board(1:17:23) Is Tobi ungovernable?(1:25:02) Entrepreneurship(1:31:50) Advice for Mark Carney(1:36:40) Motor racing