Bot Devs Confront SHOPIFY CTO – Jean-Michel Lemieux | Worlds Collide
Today I interviewed former Shopify and Atlassian CTO, Jean-Michel Lemieux, also known as JMWind. Throughout this interview Mr. Lemieux shares the answers to various questions regarding Shopify, sneakers, botting, programming, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, Yeezy Supply, Travis Scott, and perhaps most importantly his relationship with the botters and bot developers on the opposing end of this cat and mouse game. I believe I speak for the vast majority of all of this community when I state that we all share immense respect for Shopify and Mr. Lemieux’s work from a manual users perspective, botters perspective, and developers. Does Mr. Lemieux share this same respect? Come find out!
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—Contents of Video——————
00:00 – Introduction
00:54 – Favorite Sneaker?
02:20 – How did you start programming?
07:38 – How did you begin working for Shopify?
09:20 – What advice/tips do you have for manual users trying to get limited items?
11:32 – Why don’t all retailers use Shopify’s best tools, such as domain swaps?
13:07 – How did you discover the reselling/botting community?
15:56 – Describe the relationship between the Shopify team and botters.
18:13 – Are there any specific people you have a lot of respect for within this community?
20:20 – Describe the difficulty of the cat and mouse game between Shopify and bots.
22:16 – What were some of the most stressful releases?
24:24 – Will Yeezy Supply return to Shopify?
25:57 – Will Travis Scott return to FCFS releases?
27:27 – Surprise Question(s) from Mohak @ Quickcop
29:04 – Did the Sneaker Trees Charity event foreshadow a potential Shopify 2.0?
30:48 – Surprise Question(s) from Mike @ MEK AIO
31:38 – How did the Domain swap idea come about?.. Shopify staff in Cookgroups?!
33:38 – Does Shopify plan to do anything about the Pre-load method?
34:45 – Surprise Question(s) from Sudo @ Guap…. Accidentally enabled Bypass?!
36:22 – Are there any other large retailers, such as Footsites, considering Shopify?
37:15 – Did Shoepalace approach Shopify to switch or vice versa?
39:28 – What advice do you have for aspiring programmers?
42:39 – Surprise Question(s) from Jevi @ Ganesh
43:55 – Surprise Question(s) from Hunter @ Dashe
45:15 – Thoughts on other cybersecurity/antibot companies?
47:49 – Do you feel bot resale prices are warranted or absurd?
49:00 – Have you ever botted?
50:25 – Surprise Question(s) from PD Admin @ Project Destroyer
53:13 – What kind of music do you listen to?
55:20 – What are your hobbies?
56:59 – What do you invest in?
01:00:20 – Should AI be more regulated, or will that hinder the growth?
01:02:45 – When do you believe AGI will arrive, if ever?
01:05:22 – Are organizations not taking cybersecurity as serious as they should?
01:06:51 – First impressions on the recent log4J exploit?
1:09:22 – What was your favorite sneaker release?
1:10:10 – Outro
If you are considering starting a business or already own one, consider trying https://www.shopify.com/free-trial . This video is not sponsored by Shopify; I strongly suggest this platform for any big or small business for many reasons you’ll see in this interview.
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