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A personal essay by Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke about his apprenticeship in Germany after dropping out of school at 16 to work at a Siemens subsidiary. The piece reflects on how hands-on, basement-level hacker culture shaped his technical and entrepreneurial thinking. It's a rare autobiographical look at the unconventional path behind one of tech's most prominent founders.
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River shows what happens when you design an AI coding agent around organizational transparency rather than individual productivity: every River conversation is searchable, joinable, and becomes institutional knowledge rather than a private exchange that disappears. If you're thinking about how to deploy AI agents inside a company without creating knowledge silos, this is the clearest real-world model for the alternative.
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