Tobi Lütke

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3,220 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 4 May

Tobi Lütke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Shopify's Tobi Lütke on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & What Will Labour Markets Be in the Future | Why We Need More Scrutiny on Charitable Giving, Governments are Bad at What They Do and Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 4 May 2026 podcast

Like I do think there's problems of scale.

It would be sad to be in a company that is like opportunity limited, right?

Actually, I shouldn't say this.

Most companies probably are opportunity limited.

They're probably not ambitious

And I mean this in a product sense.

Remember, Shopify has a fairly broad mission.

We want to make entrepreneurship more common.

And inside of this ambition, we can do a lot.

I just think we're going to go into a golden age of entrepreneurship.

It's by far the most AI-safe job.

It's by far the most AI-benefiting job.

Think about that combination here.

Everyone who has a plan B of like some kind of ambition of like, hey, I'm going to make products is going to be like, yeah, let's fucking go.

All priors don't matter anymore because like you didn't need to come from a family of entrepreneurs and having like been at dad's office or your grandma's printing shop in my case to understand that a business formation is something that real humans can do and that gives employment and these kind of things.

You can actually...

I mean, first of all, you learn that anyway.

And then all the various tasks, your handy sidekick AI will access your co-founder, they'll just tell you.

Yeah, it's overhiring.

Like, look...

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