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Shopify’s Fulfillment Experiment: Lessons on Focus and Knowing When to Quit

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Leonid Prilutskiy
Oct 18, 2025
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Balancing focus with expansion opportunities is one of the oldest strategic trade-offs in business.

We can see this tension everywhere. Google must balance its dominance in search with new bets on AI and conversational interfaces like Gemini. Amazon went from selling books to becoming an “Everything Store”, then turned the internal logistics and computin…

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