[stephenhuey]

From what I've seen, they're nowhere near becoming a stodgy old slow-to-change corporation. The people I met last week at RailsConf all seem energetic and innovative, and I second the idea that ecommerce is a tough & crowded market and the fact that they've risen to the top says a lot about the company focus and culture.

[TMWNN]

I sell online (but on marketplaces, not my own website) so try to follow the space. Shopify is known as the company you go to for quickly setting up an ecommerce storefront. Yes, there are competitors, but Shopify seems to be the brand name in the space. Unlike Apple vis-a-vis Blackberry, there doesn't seem to be great risk of someone coming in with revolutionary technology and immense market reach that upsets the field overnight; we're coming up to 30 years after the release of Netscape, after all.