larry macdonald

Happy to see my latest book, "The Shopify Story," won a gold medal at the Axiom Business Book Awards. #23" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">axiomawards.com/blog/2025-meda…

Is Shopify a buy now?, by @Larry_MacDonald open.substack.com/pub/shopify100…

Is Shopify stock a buy now?, by @Larry_MacDonald open.substack.com/pub/shopify100…

@desireefixler @grok, did Milton Friedman really say this?

Milton Friedman said it decades ago — and he was right. Before 1914, immigration was about jobs. Work forced integration: language, norms, contribution - creating social cohesion. There were checks and limits: health and criminal. But work was the real filter. Today, immigration is tied to handouts without checks. The welfare state breaks labor and safety discipline - then calls the backlash “xenophobia.” As Milton Friedman warned: you can’t have open borders and a welfare state. That’s not ideology. It’s math. Markets integrate. Welfare divides. @DefiyantlyFree

How to collect large interest payments from short sellers. theglobeandmail.com/gift/687089e22…

Cutting down the Shopify poppy, by @Larry_MacDonald open.substack.com/pub/shopify100… @tobi @harley

You have to hear this keyboardist play

@harleyf The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley Book by Jimmy Soni

Best thing you read, heard or watched this year? I’m looking for ones that made you stop and rethink how you’re approaching your business or your life.

@evansammccann Hi Evan I have written books on Shopify, Nortel and Bombardier, as mentioned on my LinkedIn account at linkedin.com/in/larry-macdo…

Also Canadian business history more broadly is lacking. If we don’t know our history what we have achieved how can we inspire future builders?

@tobi Hey Tobi That's a good idea. I could do it. I have written 3 books already, two of which were Canadian best sellers. So you can rest assured it would get done and done well.

As far as I know there is no real book or treatment of the CN tower which is the most audacious and amazing thing Canada has ever built. This is a problem. Who wants to write it, I’ll finance it.

@tobi @vlaurenlee Let's have more Context episodes!

Dropping another internal Context episode. @vlaurenlee and I talk about how she ascended Shopify from senior PM to leading all of product. Vanessa is brilliant. Worth a watch for any builders.

That's hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

x.com/creatine_cycle… LOL

What has happened at Shopify? open.substack.com/pub/larrymacdo…

Nice write-up by @OPMWire on Daniel Debow, one of the senior execs at Shopify over past five years. I didn't find much info on him while writing my book on Shopify or since, so this was a great find. opmwire.com/daniel-debow-s…

Much thanks to The Literary Review and Gilbert Reid for their nice review of my Shopify book, which they describe as "rich in insight, psychologically penetrating [and] may well serve as a recipe for entrepreneurial success in the digital age." reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2025/…

Right… tighten Brazil right into the arms of China and others in a multi-polar world

“The longer the boom lasts, and the higher the valuation Bitcoin reaches, the higher the cost for society will be in the end.”voxeu.org/article/bitcoi…

How China is quietly diversifying from US Treasuries ft.com/content/fdad7e… via @ft

@harleyf @juliafedorin @Shopify I see what you mean. She's pretty amazing.

In 2025, the best way to get hired isn’t by sending a résumé. It’s by shipping something so good it can’t be ignored. @juliafedorin wanted to work at @Shopify. So she made a video campaign. No ask. No application. Just execution. <24 hrs later, she had an offer to be a marketing intern this fall. Welcome to Shopify, Julia.