“We're trying to build the largest start-up ever without becoming a big...” — Tobias Lutke Quote

“We're trying to build the largest start-up ever without becoming a big company.”

“I always loved retail. I love the ideas behind it. I think small-business retail is one of the areas where capitalism works so wonderfully well.”

“We have a lot of really great companies in Canada, and I think there's always been this fear that 'great' in Canada doesn't mean great on a world stage. We need more self-confidence. We are building incredibly good businesses with incredibly good people, being loyal, dedicating themselves to solving important problems.”

“I want to control the company, but I don't know how life goes. We are already a big company, and the larger our capitalization is, the lower goes the threshold for control.”

“Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.”

“I think I've always been able to see what's coming, and when I was joining Google, people always said, 'Why are you joining this company?' It was so small at the time. I could see the importance of Google. I could see the way it was going to grow; it was going to become a big company.”