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Shopify Acquires Jet Cooper
- taigeair 13y agoNeat - so I guess they will stay in Toronto?
- allsop8184 13y agoShopify HQ is in Ottawa w/ about 240 people. Shopify's Toronto team (about 15 people) will be moving into Jet Cooper's office. This will grow Shopify Toronto to ~40 people.
- Oculus 13y agoDo you happen to know if Shopify is currently looking for interns/part-time employees? (I'm a high school student in Toronto)
- jkaunisv1 13y agoThey're always looking for skilled developers and aren't too picky about age as long as you've got chops. They tend to be receptive to unconventional job applications.
- trishume 13y agoSpeaking as Shopify's only high school student intern: yes, if you have talent.
- davefp 13y agoYes. Drop me a line at david.underwood@shopify.com
- jonny_eh 13y agoOh so it was just a real-estate transaction :)
- Recoil42 13y agoNot at all. Jet Cooper is ~30 (incredibly talented) people. It's a talent acquisition. They're basically buying a larger Toronto presence via acquisition. Smart move, especially going for JC.
- xal 13y agoyes, Toronto becomes Shopify's second core city. It will have it's own mandate and own projects. Commerce is big and complicated - making it simple and approachable is such a big task that it needs to involve several great cities working together on it ;-)
- mhartl 13y ago*its own
- chrstphrhrt 13y agoThey have recently opened up in Montreal too.
- kimos 13y agoThere's a Winnipeg office as well.
- xal 13y agohttp://www.jetcooper.com http://www.jetcooper.com for more color.
- colmvp 13y agoCrazy. A lot of young talent at Jet Cooper.
- nodata 13y agoCan anyone explain what Jet Cooper is?
- psycr 13y agoThey are a design agency in Toronto, noted for their work in the startup community.
- erikig 13y agoIts interesting when a Saas company aquire-hire's an agency, I wonder what will happen to all of the other e-commerce clients that Jet Cooper was working with that don't use Shopify. I also wonder if I was the only one that misread and thought the Shopify had acquired a Jet-Copter and thought, those boys up there in Canada are getting a little too big for their britches.
- chrisbennet 13y agoHaving never heard of Jet Cooper, I thought it was a cute way of saying Shopify hired a guy named Jet Cooper.
- carsonm 13y agoI wonder if this means Shopify will start doing per-customer custom theme development themselves.
- xal 13y agoNo. We would be crazy to do anything bad for our incredible third party network at http://experts.shopify.com http://experts.shopify.com . We are super proud of what we archived here. Last year more than $18m was billed for Shopify work through this community.
- hopkinschris 13y agoCongrats Jet Cooper! This is great for Toronto's design and dev communities as well :)
- cm2012 13y agoHey Shopify team - as someone who works with a bunch of manufacturers who have started in marketplace e-commerce, you could get huge clients if you could connect seamlessly to ChannelAdvisor, the enterprise level multi-channel inventory manager. ChannelAdvisor has been promising a Magento plug-in since last year, but have run into problems with all the Magento versions. They connect to Amazon Webstore, but that has its own problems. If Shopify easily integrated, it would be a game changer for CA customers.
- mattbertulli 13y agoThis type of integration will be very much possible once Shopify supports the creation of orders through its API.
- xal 13y agoStay tuned!
- adammcnamara 13y agoThanks for the tip.