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Numbers

What the show said, with receipts

Every figure the hosts put on the record for Shopify, with its source and the date it was captured. The audited statements from the company's own filings are under Financials.

3 figures3 sources0 current or recent

Freshness

0

Current (≤6 mo)

0

Recent (≤18 mo)

3

Older

Freshness is measured from each figure’s capture date, not from the episode date. An older figure is not wrong; it is a figure that has had time to move.

Reported figures

Gross Merchandise Volume (2024)

2 yr

~$280B

Shopify processes ~$280B in transactions annually — comparable to Amazon third-party marketplace in scale

[Shopify FY2024 earnings] · as of 2024-12

Merchants on platform (2024)

3 yr

~2M+

across 175+ countries; each merchant is an integration point for payments, inventory, shipping, and marketing tools

[Shopify disclosures 2024] · as of 2024

Shopify IPO price (2015)

11 yr

$17/share

stock hit $176 by 2021 (10x); briefly most valuable company in Canada. Stock fell 80% in 2022 as e-commerce reverted post-COVID.

[Acquired Shopify IPO episode] · as of 2015-05