Shopify did $61bn of GMV in 2019, up 49% in a year, but it's impossible for anyone to compete with Amazon.
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Replying to @benedictevans @XFaure
Shopify’s GMV is not only less than 1/5th Amazon’s, their take on that GMV is also considerably lower (less than 1/5th. Everything that can be sold on amazon can be sold on Shopify, but the opposite is not true and that Shopify operates in countries where Amazon does not.
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So yeah maybe Shopify can compete over the long run if things massively go their way and Tobi outwits the worlds greatest ceo, but absent antitrust, they are not in a realistic position to compete.
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after the stock settles... and if they are proving to be reliably profitable... I think they go private...
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Then they really can't compete with Amazon. How would they get the capital to compete? Just their fulfillment effort alone (which everyone else has failed at except for Amazon) will be massively capital intensive.
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don’t really think they are or can compete... they just have their own lane... heavily dependent on payments.
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Word. Amazon gets a 15% commission which they in part pay to payment processor. Shopify gets a 2.9% which they in part pay to processors. Tough spot to be in. Amazon also has a $40 monthly fee and charges ads. Good luck shop!pic.twitter.com/TIaszxQ5k9
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the bear case for me with Shopify is simply churn and the talent pool. $2.9b is great for BFCM... but most of those merchants probably lost money on those sales. cash is constantly being vacuumed out by the ecosystem and many merchants have burnt a lot of cash w/o seeing green
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The customer value prop also sucks compared to amazon prime.
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @gooderdle and
You need to look at this from the seller side - not customer side.
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