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Rousseau Kazi

Product at Shopify

Rousseau Kazi is a product leader who recently joined Shopify in a Product role.1 He was previously the CEO and co-founder of Threads, a workplace collaboration platform that was acquired by Shopify in June 2024.34

Some key points about Rousseau Kazi:

  • He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.1
  • He attended the University of California, Berkeley for his education.1
  • As CEO of Threads, he led the company from its founding in 2019 until its acquisition by Shopify.5
  • When announcing the Threads acquisition, Kazi expressed that there were "a million feelings and thoughts from this journey" of building the company.3

At Shopify, Kazi's role is described as "Working on special projects with some of my favorite people".2 This suggests he may be involved in innovative or strategic initiatives within the company following the Threads acquisition.

Kazi appears to be well-connected in the tech industry, with over 500 connections on LinkedIn.1 His move to Shopify, along with the Threads team, is part of what some have described as Shopify's "acqui-hiring" strategy to bring in talented founders and teams from within their app ecosystem.2

Highlights

May 19 · twitter

ANTHROPIC IN 4

…more rounds of pretraining

May 19 · twitter

he's clearly brilliant, but that's not as rare as his actual, world-class superpower: making extremely technical things approachable.

assuming he still gets time to create content, i'm selfishly stoked he's getting even closer to the metal so he can make it that much easier for the rest of us to live in the readily available future.

Feb 25 · Business Insider
Shopify acquihired 6 startups for their AI talent last year as it competes in a 'white-hot' market
Newsletter #49: Shopify's acqui-hiring strategy, Carlos Alcaraz, and ...
Newsletter #49: Shopify's acqui-hiring strategy, Carlos Alcaraz, and ...
Shopify acquires Threads (no, not that one) - TechCrunch
Jun 6 · twitter.com
Rousseau Kazi on X: "Big news! Today we are announcing that ...
Rousseau Kazi on X: "Big news! Today we are announcing that ...
Sep 28 · The Daily Star
Meta announces the Quest 3 VR headset with Mixed Reality features - The Daily Star
Meta announces the Quest 3 VR headset with Mixed Reality features - The Daily Star

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San Francisco Bay Area