Tobi Lütke is the co-founder and CEO of Shopify, a Canadian e-commerce platform that has become one of the largest digital retail infrastructures in the world. Born in Germany, he learned to program as a teenager and built Shopify's technical foundation while trying to set up an online snowboard shop — the platform he created to solve his own problem ended up becoming the product.
With 29 recorded recommendations, Lütke's curation reflects the mindset of an engineer turned CEO: books about complex systems, decision-making, accelerated learning, and organization building. He is known for recommending dense, unconventional reads for executives, prioritizing fundamentals over trends.
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”The book I've reread the most.”
”So Andy’s book is unapologetically almost a how to manual, but kind of deconstructs the world of business into first principles.”
”the most mind-bending book you can imagine, because it essentially taught you always humans are flawed and influential”
”It's so wonderful when books create the language that you need to better reason about the world. Antifragile did that as well.”
”A book I love giving to people, I try to, of course, aim at the right moment, is A Guide to the Good Life is one of the best books I’ve ever read.”
”It is probably the best book I’ve read in the last couple of years.”
”Yea that’s wonderful”
”We all live in Malcolm’s world because the shipping container has been hugely influential in history.”
”It came up in twice today in different meetings.”
”The quality of the science in this book is exceptional.”
”I really love tech history books like this.”
”Enjoyed @tobyordoxford’s The Precipice. Odd time to read about end-of-world scenarios.”
”really enjoyed it too”
”Cryptonomicon but i read that 20 years ago or so.”
”This book is truly remarkable. Tim has spent 6 years on this. You must read it.”
”The most frequently gifted book is The Elements of Style because I like good writing.”
”Loved The Making of Prince of Persia by @jmechner”
