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Is Shopify a Trillion Dollar Company?

Last updated on October 1, 2022 @ 9:24 pm

Shopify is a Canadian e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. It is also the name of its proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. Shopify offers online retailers a suite of services “including payments, marketing, shipping and customer engagement tools to simplify the process of running an online store for small merchants.”

Shopify was founded in 2004 by Tobias Lütke, Scott Lake and Daniel Weinand. Lütke, a German citizen, originally came to Canada to sell snowboards. He was Shopify’s CEO until December 1, 2015 when he stepped down and passed the title to Harley Finkelstein who had been serving as Shopify’s Chief Operating Officer since 2013.

In February 2016, Shopify acquired Boltmade, a web design and development agency based in Kitchener, Ontario. The company has been profitable since 2015. In Q2 2016 it reported $37 million in cash flow from operations.

PRO TIP: Is Shopify a Trillion Dollar Company?

No, Shopify is not a trillion dollar company. This claim is based on a misunderstanding of the stock market.

Shopify has been growing rapidly. In 2013 it processed $3 billion in gross merchandise volume (GMV), and by 2014 this had risen to $12 billion GMV processed with over 175,000 merchants using its platform. This growth continued into 2015 with Shopify reporting $20 billion GMV processed in that year.

The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on May 21st, 2015 under the ticker symbol “SHOP”. At the time of its IPO, Shopify was valued at $1.27 billion USD. As of September 2020, Shopify has a market capitalization of $41.8 billion USD making it one of the most valuable companies in Canada.

There is no doubt that Shopify is a successful company, but is it a trillion dollar company? Only time will tell.

Dale Leydon

Dale Leydon

Sysadmin turned Javascript developer. Owner of 20+ apps graveyard, and a couple of successful ones.