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Tobi Lütke

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1443 total appearances

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

And...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

So, you know, sort of the school of hard knocks was kind of hard to reproduce.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

So we did a lot of this with, you know, I just got them to play way too hard video games, like together as a team, you know, like basically inducing chaos and problem solving.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

And, you know, Dungeons & Dragons, my wife ran a Dungeons & Dragons campaign with them, which was like designed to be really hard.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

And so it's like this kind of stuff.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

So this is other things we prioritized and it helped.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

I want to break the idea as early as possible with my kids that the world just is.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

Everything is changeable.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

Everything is improvable.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

Everything around them is designed by people

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

who are no more intelligent than they are and potentially didn't even care as much about the thing as they care right now as kids because there's nothing more real than a kid that's all in into something.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

They don't do that for any kind of external or extrinsic approval.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

It's all intrinsic and true.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

And...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

The real motto of our family is really that it's a super simple sentence.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

It's just everything is interesting.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

And so we don't allow our kids to say things like that they're not good at something.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

They can only say they're not yet good at something.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

They correct each other at this point.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#261 Tobi Lütke - CEO of Shopify: How Shopify Became a Cheat Code for Entrepreneurs

It's like, I'm no good at public speaking.