This podcast episode explores the journey of Glen Coates, VP of Product at Shopify, from a computer science graduate to a successful entrepreneur and leader. It delves into Shopify's approach to integrating acquired companies and technologies, the challenges of integrating acquired technologies into an existing stack, and the potential of AI to help Shopify merchants. The episode also discusses Shopify's approach to risk-taking and innovation, its plans to update its data model to support a larger number of variants, improvements to its search function using AI and embeddings, and the challenges and excitement of developing AI for Shopify.
