Shopify Acquires Jet Cooper

http://www.shopify.ca/press/articles/2013-08-01-shopify-acquires-jet-cooper.html

by speg • 13 years ago

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taigeair• 13 years ago

Neat - so I guess they will stay in Toronto?

allsop8184• 13 years ago

Shopify HQ is in Ottawa w/ about 240 people. Shopify's Toronto team (about 15 people) will be moving into Jet Cooper's office. This will grow Shopify Toronto to ~40 people.

Oculus• 13 years ago

Do you happen to know if Shopify is currently looking for interns/part-time employees? (I'm a high school student in Toronto)

jonny_eh• 13 years ago

Oh so it was just a real-estate transaction :)

xal4• 13 years ago

yes, Toronto becomes Shopify's second core city. It will have it's own mandate and own projects.

Commerce is big and complicated - making it simple and approachable is such a big task that it needs to involve several great cities working together on it ;-)

mhartl• 13 years ago

*its own

chrstphrhrt• 13 years ago

They have recently opened up in Montreal too.

kimos• 13 years ago

There's a Winnipeg office as well.

xal4• 13 years ago

http://www.jetcooper.com for more color.

colmvp• 13 years ago

Crazy. A lot of young talent at Jet Cooper.

nodata• 13 years ago

Can anyone explain what Jet Cooper is?

psycr• 13 years ago

They are a design agency in Toronto, noted for their work in the startup community.

erikig• 13 years ago

Its interesting when a Saas company aquire-hire's an agency, I wonder what will happen to all of the other e-commerce clients that Jet Cooper was working with that don't use Shopify.

I also wonder if I was the only one that misread and thought the Shopify had acquired a Jet-Copter and thought, those boys up there in Canada are getting a little too big for their britches.

carsonm• 13 years ago

I wonder if this means Shopify will start doing per-customer custom theme development themselves.

xal4• 13 years ago

No. We would be crazy to do anything bad for our incredible third party network at http://experts.shopify.com . We are super proud of what we archived here. Last year more than $18m was billed for Shopify work through this community.

hopkinschris• 13 years ago

Congrats Jet Cooper!

This is great for Toronto's design and dev communities as well :)

cm2012• 13 years ago

Hey Shopify team - as someone who works with a bunch of manufacturers who have started in marketplace e-commerce, you could get huge clients if you could connect seamlessly to ChannelAdvisor, the enterprise level multi-channel inventory manager. ChannelAdvisor has been promising a Magento plug-in since last year, but have run into problems with all the Magento versions. They connect to Amazon Webstore, but that has its own problems. If Shopify easily integrated, it would be a game changer for CA customers.

mattbertulli• 13 years ago

This type of integration will be very much possible once Shopify supports the creation of orders through its API.

xal4• 13 years ago

Stay tuned!

adammcnamara• 13 years ago

Thanks for the tip.

Shopify Acquires Jet Cooper

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