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moyta | 9 years ago

0_o Why so many employees? In the context of the volume you do I don't see how you'd turn a profit with that many employees unless you get the tax credits other francophone software groups like Logivision get and more.

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kennywinker|9 years ago

For context, shopify has pretty high monthly fees as well as taking a cut of sales. Last I saw they had over 200,000 shops, minimum $30/month (up to $300) means at LEAST $6 mil/month from monthly fees, plus some percentage of the 3.8 billion/quarter gross sales they process... whatever they get to keep after paying strip and the credit card companies. Even a half a percent means $19 million per quarter.

So if you are a startup, growing fast, and bringing in well over $12mil/month... a lot of employees makes sense.

sxcurry|9 years ago

Why all the hate on Shopify, from this and your other comment? They seem to be doing a pretty good job. Also, what does the "other francophone software groups" comment mean? Is Shopify francophone and what would that mean?

sskddd|9 years ago

Not sure if you're joking, but if something happens that takes shopify out just 15 minutes you could pay for that entire room's annual salary.

FullMtlAlcoholc|9 years ago

Are you kidding? 10 minutes @ $260 K / minute would pay for everyone's salary in that room.