Which billionaire co-founded the e-commerce platform Shopify?

Tobias Lütke co-founded the e-commerce platform Shopify.

The story began in 2004, when Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake launched Snowdevil, an online store selling snowboards. Dissatisfied with the available software, programmer Lütke built a custom storefront using Ruby on Rails.

The founders soon realized that the software could serve many merchants, not just their own snowboard shop. They shifted focus from selling snowboards to developing a general-purpose commerce platform, launching Shopify in 2006. The company later became one of Canada's best-known technology businesses and went public in 2015.

A common mix-up is treating Lütke as Shopify's sole founder. He is the company's best-known co-founder and its long-serving chief executive, but Weinand and Lake were also co-founders. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon, Marc Benioff founded Salesforce, and Elon Musk was not involved in Shopify's creation.