Lenny Rachitsky is probably the biggest influencer in product management. He just launched his interview with Tobi Lütke, the CEO of Shopify, where he talks about the importance of empathy for your customers to build great products.

That's great, Tobi, but you're also very publicly and vocally backing Trump, who seeks to destroy Canada's economy, and is actively doing everything he can to remove empathy from the Government.

Also, where was your empathy when you denied residential school mass graves? Way to lead by example.

#cdnpoli #Shopify #product

#Shopify was in such a rush to remove their #Indigenous initiative "Build Native" on the day of Trump inauguration that they nuked the website before even updating the footer on their website.

So the footer of shopify.com leads to a 404

On December 2024, #Shopify released this new podcast series
"Welcome to "Build Native", a special miniseries where we speak with four inspiring Indigenous entrepreneurs about building impactful businesses, connecting to their roots, and driving change through commerce."

Hard to believe they would go from promoting it in December, to disbanding in January, unless Shopify decided very quickly to jump on the bandwagon to destroy all DEI initiatives.

https://shopify-masters.simplecast.com/episodes/build-native-a-shopify-miniseries-gKUE1iFu

#shopify

The main website of the program was just put offline by Shopify, it was previously at
https://buildnative.shop/

Entirely removed of the internet.

So as many tech companies are axing their DEI program, #Shopify is quietly axing their Indigenous program just on time for Trump inauguration

I feel like Canadian journalists should look at that

Here's the archive page from 2 days ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250116051448/https://buildnative.shop/

@parismarx @justinling @justinling.bsky.social

2 weeks after the #Shopify CEO claimed mass grave of Indigenous kids at residential school was a hoax in Canada

The founder and head of the Native Indigenous Entrepreneurship Program at Shopify is leaving the company

(this was a very well known program that got lots of publicity a few years ago)

Sharing his Linkedin post here (it was a public post)

#Shopify Canadian CEO Tobi now claiming that mass graves of Indigenous kids at residential schools was a hoax

#residentialschools

"James Harr planned to sell "Most Wanted CEO" playing cards as a critique of capitalist harm-doers. Within a day of announcing the cards, he was visited by the #NYPD and had his #Shopify account disabled."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/platforms-systematically-removed-user-because-he-made-most-wanted-ceo-playing #LuigiMangione should have a WILD CARD in this #EatTheRich deck

#Asking self-employed folk with their own websites, what’s the best, most secure way to host your own blog - maybe with a shop front - these days please?

I used to host my own years ago using WP plugins, but seems precarious security-wise these days.

Also, what do people prefer to as alternatives to Etsy (shopify?)

#webhosting #blogging #shopify #etsy