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Playing the devil’s advocate here: he surely doesn’t need to do this. I assume there are enough great devs at Shopify. So why does he do it? Because it’s fun? B
by baxtr 6y ago
Playing the devil’s advocate here: he surely doesn’t need to do this. I assume there are enough great devs at Shopify. So why does he do it? Because it’s fun? Because he can relax? Maybe his time as CEO would be better spent not coding?
- sharkweek 6y agoI worked at a SaaS company where the founder CEO had a sales background. He'd hop into the inside sales (read: smile and dial) team desk once a quarter or so and practice pitching cold-to-warm-ish leads over the phone. It was super motivating for the reps, mostly junior in that role, to see their CEO doing it and remaining empathetic to what they're facing every day. Not sure if that's like... the best reason in the world when he could be doing other more important things, but it was definitely a morale booster for the company to see him in the pit once in a while.
- ramraj07 6y agoWhat better way to keep tabs on the state of the engineering fundamentals than actually try to write code?
- BenGosub 6y agoRecently I've heard this episode where the Shopify developer casually mentions the fact that their CEO Tobin Lutke has made some commits to their code. In my opinion they mention this in order to show that Shopify is not your ordinary top-down corporate environment. It's also good PR. That's why it's also mentioned by FB employees that Mark Zuckerberg has also made some commits to the their codebase. BTW I