[rvdm]

As someone who has dedicated the last few years of his life building a dev / design shop around Shopify, seeing these kind of numbers makes me very happy.

Looks like we placed our bet on the right horse.

imho xal / Tobi should get far more recognition for what he built. Shopify is really quite remarkable and in a league of its own.

Curious if they'll ever beat Amazon / Alibaba volume.

[mh8h]

Amazon sold 426 items per second Christmas 2013. Their average order value in 2012 was around $47. Assuming the average value to be the same, it works out to around $1.2m per minute.

[cstejerean]

If the average order value is $47, for the average item value to also be $47 it would imply the average order size is one item. That seems highly unlikely.