November 2026The human story behind the startups10 journeys so far

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Tobias Lutke, Daniel Weinand, Scott Lake

Lutke wrote his own store software for a snowboard shop because nothing on the market was good enough, then realised the software was the real product.

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No. 1 of Canada’s top 100

Tobias Lutke
Tobias Lutke. Photo: Benjamin Forrest, CC BY-SA 4.0

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