Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) There’s a bigger opportunity in computer science and programming (academically conveyed or self-taught) now than ever before, by far, in my opinion. The move to AI is like replacing shovels with bulldozers. Every business will benefit from this and they’ll need people to do it.

I’m moving from NYC to Waterloo, Canada to build akatos.. There’s something special happening in Waterloo. I have a theory: it has always been an excellent engineering school, but social media + AI have greatly lowered the barrier to entry for entrepreneurship. The best

Builder Sundays are back for August. Toronto and Montreal: join fellow founders every Sunday at Shopify. Let’s make something happen. builder-sundays.myshopify.com

Today Shopify is open sourcing the tool we use for optimizing glTF 3D models. 🔧 Tweak compression settings per texture ⚡ See changes immediately 🧰 Mesh compression options 🌐 Hosted online & free 👇 Check the thread for details

Introducing our new theme code editor Demo with Ben Sehl

Proud to support longtime partners MrBeast and Mark Rober on #TeamWater! h/t tobi lutke Check out the video and support via the official merch store (powered by Shopify of course)

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This is not a PR or marketing stunt. I’m regularly taking to PMs or VPs who can have extremely deep technical conversations. This pushes us engineers to become even better because we want to make sure we keep our edge :).

3 big AI model labs. 3 huge releases. — OpenAI launches really cheap sota open source models gpt-120b-oss and gpt-20b-oss — Anthropic launches sota coding with Claude Opus 4.1 — Google launches sota world model, Genie 3 And we have still have GPT-5 to come.

Agents will become a common way people shop. So today we are releasing 3 tools to make adding commerce to those agents trivial: - Checkout Kit: embed commerce widgets and checkout(!) directly into your agent and chat. This is already being used by Microsoft’s Microsoft Copilot. - Shopify

The future of shopping is here, brought to you by Shopify and Microsoft Copilot. Imagine having a perfect shopping assistant in your pocket. Shop with conversation, not clicks - you'll never go back to endless scrolling. Very excited to partner with the Shopify team. Lots more to come!

Commerce for Agents, batteries included [1].  📇 Catalog API is a massive unlock. Crawling is hard at scale and commerce crawling is a sysophean problem: international pricing and variants, availability, up to date pricing, .... good luck! Catalog gives realtime access to the

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Just wrapped our Q2 earnings call and we delivered once again. GMV up 31% to $87.8B. Revenue up 31% to $2.7B. Free cash flow margin was 16%. But as you know, my favourite part of these calls is talking about how the biggest brands continue to come to Shopify! A big welcome to

Markham boy right here 💚

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle — Abraham Lincoln

“Real Socialism” has never been tried in the same way that “Real Capitalism” has never been tried. The difference is ‘almost Socialism’ resulted in the impoverishment & death of hundreds of millions of people. While ‘Almost Capitalism’ has lifted billions from absolute poverty.