Tobi Lütke
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I'm so excited to be here.
I mean, that's so meaningful to me because, again, this is my favorite story because I think entrepreneurship is incredible and incredibly important.
It's so important for society that people can reach for independence, that people can
Instead of complaining about something not existing, they can actually do something about it, they can build something, and there's this wonderful market, you participate in it.
If the market deems it to be of value, then it funnels coin back to you, so you can do more of this thing, and it all kind of virtuously grows in a virtuous cycle.
It's just so honest.
It's such a form of self-expression.
It's such a way to not just gain, but also give back.
And it's a perfectly positive sum.
So from a fully philosophical perspective,
It's one of the greatest journeys people can go on, most people, and it does require a good deal of courage to put yourself out there, but, like,
I've started early my teenage years with small businesses and just selling products and these kind of things.
And I've discovered this for myself.
And then later, I'm sure we're going to get into some of these things with my snowboard shop and so on.
I love that after discovering this sort of gift and trying to figure out how to, in my own mind, how to build these businesses, that now we get to spend all our time really day and night
creating a product that we can share which itself causes other people to share their products right like this is a wonderful thing it says millions of businesses out there that provide employment that create new products and so it's but it's the important thing there from my perspective is
I want to thank you for building something.
Because as you know, especially for the builders, there's nothing in the world more gratifying than someone using the product or being delighted by the product.
So I think that's honestly the best thing about the world of retail commerce.
It's accessible, it's available, and it's really, really, really...