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Payroll is just the door. Once we're running payroll, we can offer benefits, retirement plans, financial wellness — everything an employee needs in one place.

expansionplatformJosh Reeves on expansion strategy, 2023

We don't want to be a tool people use. We want to be a platform people build on. That's a very different ambition.

platformstrategyBloomberg Interview, 2021

We're going into sports betting, trading cards, and ticketing. People say we're spreading too thin. I say we're the only company that has a direct relationship with every fan. That's the platform.

expansionplatformWall Street Journal Interview, 2023

We host over 500,000 models. Half a million. Every researcher, every startup, every company experimenting with AI — they come through us. We're the infrastructure layer nobody talks about.

aiplatformBloomberg Interview, 2023

We license our credit intelligence platform to other banks too. So we're a bank that lends money AND a software company that sells to other banks. Two revenue streams from the same technology.

bankingplatformTechCrunch Interview, 2021

We started with payment gateway. Then payroll. Then lending. Then banking. Every product we launch makes the others stickier. The platform play is working. Churn is nearly zero.

expansionplatformEconomic Times Interview, 2023

Roman, Rory, Zero — we built three brands for different audiences and then unified them under Ro. Men's health, women's health, smoking cessation. The platform was always the vision. The brands were the entry points.

brandingplatformBloomberg Interview, 2021

Student loans, personal loans, mortgages, investing, banking, credit cards — all in one app. Every product we add makes the others cheaper to acquire customers for. That flywheel is why we'll win.

fintechplatformBloomberg Interview, 2023

We do not want to be a bank. We want to be the financial operating system for Korea. Banks are one layer. We want to be the layer underneath.

platformstrategyTechCrunch Interview, 2022

We are not a rental car company. We are a peer-to-peer marketplace. The difference is that we do not own a single car. Our hosts do.

business-modelmarketplaceTechCrunch Interview, 2021

We are not a lender. We are an AI platform that banks plug into. The banks fund the loans, take the risk, keep the customers. We just make the decision better.

business-modelplatformTechCrunch Interview, 2021

Our average enterprise customer uses 4 or more of our products. They start with monitoring and then realize they need APM, then logs, then security. We designed it that way — one platform that keeps expanding.

land-and-expandplatformEarnings Call, 2023

A good connector creates more value than a good builder. Our job is to connect one billion people to everything they need — not to build everything they need ourselves.

We don't need to build everything ourselves. We just need to build the platform and invest in the best people who can build everything else.

A messaging app is not a messaging app. It is the front door to a person's digital life. Once you own the front door, you can build anything behind it.

Hivemind is not just a drone brain. It is an AI pilot that can fly any aircraft — a quadcopter today, an F-16 tomorrow. The platform is the product.

We have more rooms than Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, and Wyndham combined. And we do not own a single one. That is the power of a platform.

Our Singularity Data Lake ingests security data from everywhere — not just endpoints. We are building the operating system for the SOC.

We have 70 million people showing up every day. They are not coming for one game. They are coming for a million games.

We are not building a game. We are building a platform where imagination can be expressed.

Uber is a platform. We don't just move people. We move food, packages, freight — anything that needs to get from A to B.

We don't just sell software to restaurants. We become their operating system.

A restaurant's POS system touches every single transaction. If you own that, you own the relationship.

APIs are the building blocks of all modern software. Postman is where they're built.

One platform for the entire DevOps lifecycle. That's not a tagline — that's our entire strategy.

We're building the operating system for Indonesia's digital economy. That takes time and patience.

Indonesia has 270 million people and a booming digital economy. GoTo is the default app for daily life.

We don't just want to be a bank. We want to be the financial platform for the 100 million Americans living paycheck to paycheck.

Our technology platform can power any insurance company. B2B licensing might be bigger than our own insurance sales.

Our streamers are not employees. They're entrepreneurs building their own businesses on our platform.

TSMC manufactures chips to spec. Ginkgo manufactures organisms to spec. Same model, different substrate.

Every organism we engineer adds to our codebase. The platform gets better with every project.

Let customers run their own software on our satellites. Space-as-a-service — literally SaaS.

We power 10% of US e-commerce. We're not a startup anymore. We're infrastructure.

e-commerceplatformShopify annual report, 2023

The partner ecosystem is Shopify's moat. 50,000 developers building on your platform means merchants never leave.

ecosystemmoatsBloomberg Interview, 2022

Shopify proved that the biggest opportunity in e-commerce wasn’t building the store. It was selling the shovels.

investingplatformConference talk, 2020

Every major computing wave created enormous wealth for people who built the platform layer. That is what we are doing with blockchain.

blockchaininvestingDavos World Economic Forum panel, 2020

Let's make sure that we have great products, and we stitch them so that they work better together.

m-and-aplatformSequoia Capital podcast, 2024