Question 1

True or false: Tobi Lütke holds a degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo.

Accepted Answer

False. He never attended university; he learned programming through online forums and hands-on experience.

Question 2

True or false: Tobi Lütke is a self-taught programmer who never attended university.

Accepted Answer

True. He dropped out of high school in Germany and learned coding on his own, later moving to Canada.

Question 3

True or false: Tobi Lütke is an avid speedrunner of classic video games in his spare time.

Accepted Answer

True. He enjoys speedrunning games like Super Mario 64 and has discussed it in interviews as a hobby.

Question 4

True or false: Tobi Lütke was the first employee hired at Shopify, not the founder.

Accepted Answer

False. He co-founded Shopify in 2004 with Scott Lake; he was never an employee hired later.

Question 5

True or false: Tobi Lütke co-founded Shopify after failing to find good snowboarding gear online.

Accepted Answer

True. He built an online snowboard store, which led him to create Shopify when existing e-commerce tools were too clunky.

Question 6

True or false: Tobi Lütke sold his first company, a Ruby on Rails consulting firm, for $10 million.

Accepted Answer

False. He didn’t sell a consulting firm; his first venture was the snowboard store that became Shopify.

Question 7

True or false: Tobi Lütke originally named Shopify 'Snowdevil' before rebranding.

Accepted Answer

False. The snowboard store was called 'Snowdevil'; Shopify was the name of the software, not a rebrand.

Question 8

True or false: Tobi Lütke once programmed a Ruby on Rails e-commerce engine in a single weekend.

Accepted Answer

True. He built the first version of Shopify in a weekend as a Rails prototype for his snowboard store.

Tobi Lütke Trivia Questions