About Luc Levesque
At the age of 21, Luc Levesque founded TravelPod, the world’s first travel blogging platform. TravelPod was acquired by Expedia where Luc then led the creation of two award-winning products: TripWow and the Traveler IQ Challenge.
Luc then served as an executive at TripAdvisor, where he built and led the growth team which helped TripAdvisor become the world’s largest travel site. Luc was then recruited by Mark Zuckerberg to Meta where he was an executive and held product and engineering leadership roles. He was then recruited by Tobi Lutke to Shopify as the Chief Growth Officer where he led a massive acceleration in growth.
Luc serves as an advisor to companies like Canva, Twitter and Pinterest and is currently starting a new venture as the CEO and co-founder of an AI startup currently in stealth.
He has been a guest speaker at Harvard University, has been featured in the New York Times and was awarded the International Executive of the Year Award and the Forty Under 40 Award.
THoughts and life updates
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Life Update: Shifting from Chief Growth Officer to an advisory role at Shopify
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Lenny Rachitsky interview with Luc Levesque, Chief Growth Officer at Shopify: Leveraging growth advisors, mastering SEO, and honing your craft
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Harry Stebbings 20VC interview with Luc Levesque, Chief Growth Officer at Shopify
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Daddy-Son trips. Every 5 years. Forever. (My favorite parenting tradition)
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Update: Hello Shopify, Goodbye Facebook.
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Exciting update: I’m moving to Palo Alto to join Facebook!