John Phillips
$1.31B
$21.5M (-1.6%)
as of 06/17/24
About John Phillips
John Phillips is an angel investor who made an early bet on Shopify, a Canadian e-commerce software company.
He and his wife Catherine are now among the company's largest shareholders; each owns an estimated 1.5% of Shopify.
Phillips served on Shopify's board of directors from 2010 to 2023.
He has invested in a slew of other early-stage companies that are lesser known, like Virtual Marine Technology and Sequence Bio.
Phillips previously spent 25 years as a corporate lawyer, including as general counsel at telecom firm Clearnet Communications.
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Citizenship
CanadaSource of wealth
investmentsResidence
Toronto, CanadaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
01/01/51 (age 73)Education
Law Degree, University of Toronto; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Toronto (Trinity College)Self-made
self-madeJohn Phillips’s fortune is worth
22K
troy ounces of gold
20K
median U.S. household
13K
median U.S. income
0.026%
U.S. credit card volume
0.005%
GDP of the United States
0.004%
United States debt
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