I've never worked through a night. The only times I worked more than 40 hours in a week was when I had the burning desire to do so. I need 8ish hours of sleep a night. Same with everybody else, whether we admit it or not.
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Shopify build a profitable lifestyle company before it took investment. I think that was a key ingredient of our success. I learned from
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But I also think that you have to always re-validate your decisions. Not taking VC for 6 years eventually got invalidated for Shopify because it got clear that it *was* a venture. After that we took VC and that was the right thing in our case.
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We took VC investment in 2010 but we didn't change the company. We got better in many respects but changed no opinion on how to work together, hire, or form teams.
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Because those were our own bets based on what kind of company we, the founders, wanted to work for.
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While we did work hard (whatever that means in tech) in the early days, we also always took time to play. We had a FIFA tournament going. looser had to drive this weeks load of Ebay'd second hand server to our data center in Toronto.
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Going public was yet another funding event. We threw a party (themed: we qualified for the big leagues. Because its the beginning not a destination). And again didn't change that much. No one bought a lambo. We just kept working on the problem we fell in love with.
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I'm home at 5:30pm every evening. I don't travel on the weekend. I play video games alone, with my friends, and increasingly with my kids. My job is incredible, but its also just a job. Family and personal health rank higher in my priority list.
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I'm deeply in love with the problem that Shopify solves. Every few seconds a new entrepreneur has their first sale: a life changing event. I get to work with some of the smartest people in the world to cause more of that. The stories that I hear from our customers blow my mind.
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We don't burn out people. We give people space. We love real teams with real friendship forming. We understand the power of individual potential and proximity. Even our floor plan is designed to give small teams a pod all to themselves.
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And that's why people show up to work as their authentic selves. With all their quirks and skills and ideas. They tell us what they see and how it relates to the mission. They work on those ideas. Shopify enables them, but they drive the company forward.
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This worked great for us, but feels dissonant with the black/white and zero-sum conversations that I'm reading about. Gray thinking is important and not everything is an absolute. Take your own path, judge the tools people offer you wisely. Then pick and choose what fits.
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