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.

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.

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?

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