Shopify employee. Reporting from the darkness of the green bag.
j03mamma@proton.me
Jul 21, 2023 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
What stumps a lot of staff, is how & why Kasra Nejatian is COO of @Shopify. Aside from a reputation for being bigoted & rude, @CanadaKaz generally ruins everything he touches. He has rather less a Midas touch and rather more a Minus touch. Let’s take a look at his track record:
1. Kaz Nejatian became Shopify’s VP & GM of money in 2020. His first move was to hitch Shopify to Facebook’s doomed Libra Crypto Currency Association .techcrunch.com/2020/02/21/sho…
Jul 19, 2023 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
1. In the first quarter of 2022 Shopify promised staff that their jobs were safe over a town hall video link. But then in July of 2022, Tobi sent an email to all staff telling them that in the next few minutes some of them would find out whether they still had a job or not:
2. "Placing this bet was my call to make and I got this wrong. Now, we have to adjust. As a consequence, we have to say goodbye to some of you today and I’m deeply sorry for that.”
Jul 18, 2023 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
23. So first Tobi consolidated power by taking a founder’s share , ensuring that he had primary control over everything.financialpost.com/investing/shop…24. Then, as numerous C-Suite executives began to quit because of Tobi’s alleged poor interpersonal skills and management style, he brought on Kasra Nejatian as COO.
Jul 18, 2023 • 41 tweets • 7 min read
Shopify doesn’t “arm the rebels”. It crushes them.
The writing has been on the wall since 2016. Shopify is spiraling out of control. The company’s dalliances with hateful and domestic terror accounts are a window into a company that
is struggling to support small and mid-size businesses and sewing division and disaster both internally and globally. And at the heart of it all is one man: CEO and founder Tobi Lutke.
