Tobias Lutke Quotes


Computers add convenience to our everyday lives, but we are limited in what we can do with technology others have imagined. The ability for humans to teach machines entirely new things - coding - is nothing short of a superpower.


Citations

Lütke, Tobias. "Why coding should be mandatory in school." The Globe and Mail, 4 Nov. 2013.

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Tobias Lutke
Tobias Lutke
  • Born:
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: CEO, Shopify

Tobias "Tobi" Lütke is a German-Canadian billionaire entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Shopify, a company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He has been part of the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created open source libraries such as Active Merchant.