Tobi Lutke
$9.39B
$40.7M (0.4%)
as of 11/22/24
About Tobi Lutke
Tobi Lutke is the cofounder and CEO of Shopify, a Canadian e-commerce firm that helps companies set up and run online stores.
He owns about 6% of Shopify, which went public in 2015.
Shopify generated more than $7 billion in 2023 revenue; it is used by some two million businesses, including Kylie Cosmetics, Allbirds and Gymshark.
Lutke grew up in Germany, where he learned to code by age 12 and left school at 16 to enter a computer programming apprenticeship.
He began developing the e-commerce platform after he and a friend tried to open an online snowboard shop but couldn't find decent software.
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CanadaSource of wealth
E-commerceResidence
Toronto, CanadaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
07/16/80 (age 44)Number of children
3Self-made
self-madeTobi Lutke’s fortune is worth
156K
troy ounces of gold
144K
median U.S. household
94K
median U.S. income
0.188%
U.S. credit card volume
0.038%
GDP of the United States
0.028%
United States debt
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He moved to Canada in 2003 after meeting his now-wife, an Ottawa native, on a snowboarding trip to Whistler.
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NASDAQ | COIN-US
Coinbase GlobalNYSE | SHOP-US
ShopifyNYSE | SHOP-US
ShopifyNYSE | SHOP-US
ShopifyNYSE | SHOP-US
ShopifyNYSE | SHOP-US
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