Tobias Lütke

Tobias "Tobi" Lütke is a German-born Canadian billionaire entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Shopify, a company based in Ottawa, Canada.[3][4][5][6] He has been part of the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created open source libraries such as Active Merchant.[7]

Tobias Lütke
Born1981 (age 38–39)
Koblenz, Germany
NationalityGerman
CitizenshipCanada
OccupationCEO, Shopify
Net worthUS$9.3 billion (Aug 2020)[1]
Height5'10"[2]
Spouse(s)Fiona McKean
Children3
Websitetobi.lutke.com

Early life

Lütke was born in 1981[8]. He received a Schneider CPC (German brand of the Amstrad CPC distributed by the Schneider Rundfunkwerke AG) from his parents at the age of six.[9][10] By 11 or 12, he began rewriting the code of the games he played and modifying computer hardware as a hobby. Lütke dropped out of school and entered an apprenticeship program at the Koblenzer Carl-Benz-School to become a computer programmer after tenth grade.[11][12] He moved from Germany to Canada in 2002.[9][11]

Career

In 2004, Lütke, along with his partners, Daniel Weinand and Scott Lake, launched Snowdevil, an online snowboard shop.[5][13][14] Lütke built a new e-commerce platform for the site, using Ruby on Rails.[15][12][16] Soon after, the Snowdevil founders shifted their focus from snowboards to e-commerce and launched Shopify in 2006.[17][18][19]

The Globe and Mail named Lütke "CEO of the Year" in November 2014.[20][21] In 2019, Lütke donated 1,000,001 trees to Team Trees, the biggest donation as of August 17, 2020.[22]

gollark: I like the use of antiblocks.
gollark: A HDMI to... hose adapter?
gollark: What do you mean?
gollark: Yes.
gollark: Whom?

References
  1. "Forbes profile: Tobi Lutke". Forbes. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  2. Tobi Lutke [@tobi] (July 6, 2019). "I'm precisely average male height (5 foot 10) but from many U.S. retailers the best fitting shirts are XS. Vanity sizing needs to stop" (Tweet). Archived from the original on May 3, 2020 – via Twitter.
  3. "Episode: 375: Tobias Lutke - Founder & CEO of Shopify". August 6, 2013. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  4. "First family of Shopify to restore Opinicon resort". January 28, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  5. "Fluke and luck: Shopify's co-founder profited from both". October 5, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  6. "Founder to CEO: Tobias Lutke, Shopify". June 7, 2013.
  7. "Tobias Lutke, CEO, Shopify at Business of Software 2011". May 23, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  8. "Schulversager, Programmier-Genie, Milliardär". September 7, 2018. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
  9. "Our Canadian CEO of the year you've probably never heard of". November 27, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  10. "Ich war ein miserabler Schüler". November 30, 2017. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
  11. "Shopify: Koblenzer revolutioniert Onlineshops". May 2, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  12. "Against the Grain" (PDF). Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  13. "Q&A with Tobias Lütke of Shopify". June 3, 2010. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  14. "Finding Business Motivation in Industry Leaders". January 10, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  15. "Shopify picks up $7M in venture funding". December 13, 2010. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  16. "Top 5 Keys to Shopify's Success – an Interview with Tobias Lutke". December 22, 2010. Archived from the original on May 2, 2015. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  17. "FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES: #1 - Shopify". May 3, 2010. Archived from the original on May 6, 2010. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  18. "Zwei Deutsche mischen Kanadas Gründerszene auf". May 12, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  19. "Shopify auf der Überholspur". February 10, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  20. "Shopify's Tobias Lutke Crowned CEO of 2014". November 27, 2014. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  21. Knowlton Thomas (November 27, 2014). "Tobias Lutke Crowned CEO of 2014". Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  22. "Team Trees Official Website". #teamtrees. Retrieved August 7, 2020.
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