Tobias Lutke was not doing well in school, but he loved programming. He took the risk of dropping out of school and started working as a programmer.
He never intended to start a business but due to an unavoidable situation he had to start Shopify.
He planned to get back to a job but since Shopify grew wildly, he never had to go looking for a job again.
He faced many problems including no money to pay his employees and came close to shutting down, but he kept moving forward and finally turned it into a multi-billion dollar company and he became a billionaire.
What you could learn from this episode:
- Why he couldn’t do well in school
- How he got his first job in programming
- How he met his wife
- Why he moved to Canada
- How he got the idea for Shopify just by pure accident
- What did he do when he thought he was incapable of running his business.
