Once a darling of Ottawa, Shopify increasingly distancing itself from city
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2023 8:14 pm
Once a darling of Ottawa, Shopify increasingly distancing itself from city
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For its 19 years in existence, Shopify Inc. has been synonymous with Ottawa.
Founder and chief executive Tobi Lütke, who emigrated from Germany, built and grew the e-commerce software brand in this country’s capital and politicians just down the street on Parliament Hill never hesitated to sing its praises, often thanking Shopify for putting Ottawa on the map for tech innovation again.
But these days, Ottawa is seemingly no longer the centre of Shopify’s universe. Many of its top-ranking executives, Lütke included, recently departed the city and several others never bothered to move there in the first place.
They instead sprinkled themselves across Canada and the U.S. — the product of a pandemic-inspired permanent remote work evolution Shopify felt so strongly about that it dumped Ottawa as the headquarters on its press releases and replaced it with “Internet, Everywhere.”
Read more here:
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/11/12/ ... from-city/
For its 19 years in existence, Shopify Inc. has been synonymous with Ottawa.
Founder and chief executive Tobi Lütke, who emigrated from Germany, built and grew the e-commerce software brand in this country’s capital and politicians just down the street on Parliament Hill never hesitated to sing its praises, often thanking Shopify for putting Ottawa on the map for tech innovation again.
But these days, Ottawa is seemingly no longer the centre of Shopify’s universe. Many of its top-ranking executives, Lütke included, recently departed the city and several others never bothered to move there in the first place.
They instead sprinkled themselves across Canada and the U.S. — the product of a pandemic-inspired permanent remote work evolution Shopify felt so strongly about that it dumped Ottawa as the headquarters on its press releases and replaced it with “Internet, Everywhere.”