What Marvin Schwaibold thinks about management
Leads the Product Design Studio at Shopify; co-founder of the design agency Molly, which Shopify acquired in 2025.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Marvin Schwaibold has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordseveryone's genius is like right next to their dysfunction and everybody's good at one thing and our job in the studio and and and our job in in in tech and at Shopify general is to create an environment where everybody can thrive at the thing that makes them really, really good and that's how we get really good output out out of our team and out of ourselves.
↗Marvin Schwaibold - Inside Shopify's New Product Design Studioyoutube.com 3rd of 20 in this recording
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Their wordsthe most important thing with all of this is just like bringing them along, like showing them the thinking behind how did we land on this and why did we land on this and how do we think this positively impact what we're all trying to achieve, and selling them over. And once they're sold over, and once they're on your side, it becomes a lot easier to that just progress as a unit and and and move forward.
↗Marvin Schwaibold - Inside Shopify's New Product Design Studioyoutube.com 7th of 20 in this recording