Shopify

Farhan Thawar, head of engineering at Shopify, gave an excellent talk at the recent Cursor Compile event. A few things in particular stuck with me. The first takeaway was “the learning is the collateral, not the code.” He told a story about 50 engineers who spent 18 months building something and were ready to launch. The day before launch, Tobi — Shopify’s founder — asks one question: “If you could start over, how would you build it?” ...