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Shopify Won’t Build a Marketplace

Source: Marketplace Pulse
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Shopify said that it would continue to develop the app this year into a “must-have shopping companion that fosters buyer loyalty and retention.” It is vague on the specifics. The company has consumer-facing brands like Shop and Shop Pay but ultimately doesn’t want Shop to be wher

US indicts California man accused of stealing Shop

Source: eCommerce – TechCrunch
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The indictment accuses Heinrich of paying an employee of a third-party customer support company in the Philippines to access parts of Shopify’s internal network by either taking screenshots or uploading the data to Google Drive in exchange for kickbacks. Heinrich paid the employe

Shopify President Harley Finkelstein Joins Me on P

Source: Howard Lindzon
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Harley doesn’t want Shopfiy to just be an e-commerce/retail company; he wants it to be the go-to place for entrepreneurs.

Shopify

Source: Essays - Benedict Evans
Date:

Amazon’s rather different Marketplace business, which started back in 1999, probably had $275bn of third party GMV in 2020. That means Shopify’s merchant sales were over 40% of Amazon’s. Looking back a bit, Amazon had $130bn of 3P GMV in 2017, so in that sense Shopify is only thr

Shopify

Source: Essays - Benedict Evans
Date:

Amazon’s rather different Marketplace business, which started back in 1999, probably had $275bn of third party GMV in 2020. That means Shopify’s merchant sales were over 40% of Amazon’s. Looking back a bit, Amazon had $130bn of 3P GMV in 2017, so in that sense Shopify is only thr

Shopify

Source: Essays - Benedict Evans
Date:

Amazon’s rather different Marketplace business, which started back in 1999, probably had $275bn of third party GMV in 2020. That means Shopify’s merchant sales were over 40% of Amazon’s. Looking back a bit, Amazon had $130bn of 3P GMV in 2017, so in that sense Shopify is only thr

Shopify

Source: Essays - Benedict Evans
Date:

Amazon’s rather different Marketplace business, which started back in 1999, probably had $275bn of third party GMV in 2020. That means Shopify’s merchant sales were over 40% of Amazon’s. Looking back a bit, Amazon had $130bn of 3P GMV in 2017, so in that sense Shopify is only thr

Shopify

Source: Essays - Benedict Evans
Date:

Amazon’s rather different Marketplace business, which started back in 1999, probably had $275bn of third party GMV in 2020. That means Shopify’s merchant sales were over 40% of Amazon’s. Looking back a bit, Amazon had $130bn of 3P GMV in 2017, so in that sense Shopify is only thr

Shopify

Source: Essays - Benedict Evans
Date:

Amazon’s rather different Marketplace business, which started back in 1999, probably had $275bn of third party GMV in 2020. That means Shopify’s merchant sales were over 40% of Amazon’s. Looking back a bit, Amazon had $130bn of 3P GMV in 2017, so in that sense Shopify is only thr