Daniel Weinand, Shopify Co-Founder and Chief Culture Officer, will share his trials and triumphs in building a billion-dollar, Canadian-based e-commence company during his keynote lecture at 11:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 30, in Arts & Humanities Building, room 1R40.
My Life is Based on a True Story is the latest installment in the ongoing Digital Creativity speaker series.
Founded in 2004, Shopify develops software tools for individuals to run online stores and use for point-of-sale retail. With software initially written by its founders for their online snowboard store, the company now boasts more than 175,000 merchants using the platform.
Free and open to the public, the event is sponsored by Hispanic Studies professor Juan Luis Suarez , Director, The Cultureplex Lab; Propel; Nspire; Western Founders Network; and The Pre-Business Students’ Network (PBSN)