Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, and prioritizes intuition

[@dhanashrikondap8189]

I absolutely loved this episode. So much was contrary to popular norms. Archie is passionate and the excitement of working at Shopify shows on his face. Makes me want to work for him and such a company which can create employees who are walking talking advertisements for the company.

[@AbouAnia]

At this point and after watching hundreds of videos, I can say that I don’t understand anything. I think every startup is unique

[@vladarino]

👆Yeah, it's like one group of experts say you must do xyz to be successful at product and someone like Archie says the heck with that, we've found doing abc is better. 😫

[@AbouAnia]

@ yeah they first start by doing the things that don’t scale and then they come up with these lessons that don’t work for everyone. I think every startup is unique

[@AbouAnia]

What’s important for me at least is to work hard and smart and try to experiment a lot in early stage as you don’t know what’s gonna work for you especially if you are working a new idea

[@AbouAnia]

That’s said you need a lot of money to do these experiments and you gonna fail very fast if you don’t have enough cash flow so i think the startup founder should have a clear path into financing his startup since day 1

[@artist-wx5my]

Intresting to know how the short term lift might not have any impact in the longterm but the question is how to actually strategize for longterm when short term lifts can be entirely relied on. Also in this world where AI is changing the way businesses are done so it makes it difficult to plan for something for 20 years now

[@nivedhansenthilkumar964]

01:04:54 that bit about attribution rules is what a lot of companies struggle to get right

[@RussellPompea]

"They keep long term holdouts for every experiment they run" Wow this is so rare for a bigger tech company

[@TheQuickyouknow]

I need this podcast on Spotify

[@karolisprekeris]

love the summary at the beginning, good job Lenny!

[@maasdd]

u bring such amazing guests! would be awesome to get more people from shopify & duelingo :)

[@ruchivora1190]

Thank you!

[@bennyscriv9494]

I'm interested in the no wizard principle, What's the reasoning?

[@ahmadm.abuzaid1104]

Thank you for this - it has been a while since you brought a guest and actually the talk was about technicalities and business .. Was going to un subscribe - thank you for bringing me back to your channel because of this brilliant guy Archie Abrams - even when you deviate he brings you back on track because he only wants to speak business

[@ogopogoman4682]

I see that 4 Scrum Masters have disliked the video. I guess they're not a fan of the GSD (Get Shit Done) philosophy.

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