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Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke Says Employees Must Prove AI Can't Handle Their Tasks Before Requesting More Headcount
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 2:25am | 554Shopify Inc. (NASDAQ:SHOP) CEO Tobi Lutke has introduced a new policy requiring employees to demonstrate that their tasks cannot be accomplished using AI before requesting additional staff. What Happened: In a memo shared with staff and posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Monday, Lutke outlined a...
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Mark Cuban's Advice For Leaders Who Constantly Micromanage: 'I Wish Somebody Would Have Told Me'
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:49pm | 537Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban believes prolonged micromanaging can be a sign something is broken. What To Know: Ofek Lavian, CEO of fintech company Forage, recently posted a thread on X focused on counterintuitive leadership principles. Cuban responded to the thread, noting that he...
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Citron Targets Etsy Over Counterfeits Ahead Of Q4 Earnings: Why Shopify CEO Says Andrew Left 'Crawled Out Of The Dredges'
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:36am | 1029Issuing a short report about a publicly traded company is something the CEO of that company will likely remember. Ecommerce company Shopify Inc (NYSE: SHOP) is one of the companies that has been targeted by famed short-seller Citron Research over the years, something its CEO hasn...
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'When You're Doing Good Work, It Travels': Herb Founder and CEO Matt Gray Shares What He Used To Scale The Cannabis Company
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 - 5:24pm | 1427Entrepreneurs are often too obsessed with the outcome. That’s not necessarily the right thing to do, explains Herb founder and CEO Matt Gray whose mission is to pay it forward and inspire 10 million entrepreneurs to live their dreams. Amidst a slowing economy, Gray urged entrepreneurs to...
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Shopify Launches NFT Platform For Merchants, With Chicago Bulls Debuting Championship Ring NFTs
Tuesday, July 27, 2021 - 3:46pm | 655One of the leading e-commerce merchant partners is making it easier for companies to sell NFTs. What Happened: The president of Shopify Inc (NYSE: SHOP) shared details of the company’s plans to help its merchants sell NFTs. If you’ve spent 1 minute on the internet this year, you...
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Shopify Cuts Costs For Partners, Which Could Lead To Merchant Growth
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 - 2:16pm | 684The Shopify Unite event was held this week highlighting new launches from the company and how it can help its partners in the growing e-commerce market. Shopify Unite: Shopify Inc (NYSE: SHOP) saw more than 450 million people complete checkouts in 2020. The company processed around $120...
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BitClout Nears 300,000 Users, Launches On Blockchain.com, Adds Shopify CEO, Hubspot Founder
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 - 5:33pm | 916Open source social media platform BitClout continues to grow and is attracting new business leaders and celebrities to the site. About BitClout: Creators on BitClout have a coin value based on demand from people on the platform. Followers can buy and sell the coin, making BitClout a crypto social...
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Joe Montana-Backed Herb Relaunches Website To Focus On Education, Information
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 3:41pm | 612In 2017, Benzinga wrote about HERB, a media company boasting social media followership and engagement figures comparable to those seen in mass media outlets like Buzzfeed and Vice. Only a month after that feature, we found out the company had completed a $4.1-million raise led by Lerer Hippeau...
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HERB, The Fast-Growing Marijuana Media Company, Gets Investment From Joe Montana
Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - 2:42pm | 812As cannabis legalization continues to spread, competition in the media space is becoming fierce. However, just a handful of outlets are driving most of the traffic. Leading this bunch are High Times, which is set to start trading on the Nasdaq in October with a $250 million valuation through a...
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Shopify Spikes 19% Following Better-Than-Expected Q4
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 10:26am | 282Shares of Shopify Inc (NYSE: SHOP) were trading higher by 19 percent ahead of Wednesday's opening bell after the company reported its fourth quarter results. Shopify said it lost $0.01 per share on revenue of $70.2 million. Wall Street analysts were expecting the company to lose $0.05 per share on...