Tobias Lütke
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| Born | Koblenz, Germany |
| Residence | Ottawa, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | CEO of Shopify |
| Spouse(s) | Fiona McKean |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | tobi |
Tobias Lütke is founder and CEO of Shopify, a commerce company based in Ottawa, Canada.[1][2][3][4] Additionally, he has served on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created open source libraries such as Active Merchant.[5]
Early life
Lütke received a Commodore 64 from his parents at the age of six.[6] By 11 or 12, he began rewriting the code of the games he played and modifying the computer hardware. Lütke dropped out of school and entered an apprenticeship program at the Ko-blenzer BOG to become a computer programmer after tenth grade.[7][8] He moved from Germany to Canada in 2002.[6][7]
Career
In 2004, Lütke launched Snowdevil, an online snowboard shop from his garage with his partners, Daniel Weinand and Scott Lake.[3][9][10] Lütke, a programmer by trade, had decided to build his own[11] e-commerce platform in Ruby on Rails.[8][12] Soon after, the Snowdevil founders decided to shift their focus from snowboards to e-commerce and Shopify, the e-commerce platform, was officially launched in 2006.[13][14][15]
In 2012, Profit included Lütke on its “The Fabulous 30” list.[16] The Globe and Mail named Lütke “CEO of the Year” in November 2014.[17][18] In January 2015, more than 150,000 merchants utilized Shopify and over $7 billion worth of gross merchandise on the company’s platforms since 2006.[19]
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