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Tobias Lütke

What Tobias Lütke thinks about hiring

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Tobias Lütke has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingHiring should look for high-agency experience: find where something went wrong in a candidate's story and ask how they reacted, minute by minute.

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    Their wordsAnd frankly, what we are looking for is like high agency experience. We look at like something went wrong in your story at some point. Well, now let's zoom in. How do you react? Give me minute by minute.

    ↗Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopifyyoutube.com 31st of 48 in this recording

  3. Our readingWriting down what you look for in hires hands a cheat sheet to exactly the list-followers you are trying to avoid.

    Their wordsWell, the people who read it are the people who are very, very good at following lists. So the people that you probably describe are not the people who go look for the cheat sheet. The people you are trying to avoid hiring are the people who would study the cheat sheet very well.

    ↗Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopifyyoutube.com 43rd of 48 in this recording