Shopify helps customers build online shops, but it's minting tech founders and investors, too

In their new chapters, all seem keen to advise, invest in, or even launch startups, joining a growing number of former Shopify executives and employees to do the same. For a company of Shopify's size — the 15-year-old, 7,000-person, Ottawa-based outfit boasts a $130 billion market cap — that's not a surprise. Still, because of the wealth that Shopify has helped create, its former employees look to have an impact on the Canadian entrepreneurial ecosystem like no other.