Chef vs Shopify
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Progress Software (NASDAQ: PRGS) infrastructure automation platform for DevSecOps; acquired 2020 for $220M at $70M ARR — Chef Infra, InSpec, and Habitat competing with Ansible and HashiCorp for enterprise configuration management.
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Chef is a Seattle-based infrastructure automation and configuration management platform — acquired by Progress Software (NASDAQ: PRGS) in October 2020 for $220 million cash, representing a 3x revenue multiple on $70 million ARR with 95% recurring subscription revenue — providing DevSecOps automation tools including Chef Infra (infrastructure configuration-as-code), Chef InSpec (compliance automation and security policy enforcement), Chef Habitat (application build, deploy, and runtime automation), and Chef Automate (enterprise dashboard for compliance and infrastructure visibility). Founded in 2008 by Adam Jacob and now operating as Chef by Progress within Progress Software's DevOps portfolio alongside Telerik, Kinvey, and OpenEdge.
NYSE: SHOP e-commerce platform at $8.88B FY2024 revenue with $292.28B GMV across 4.82M stores; Black Friday $11.5B processing competing with WooCommerce and BigCommerce for small-to-enterprise direct-to-consumer commerce.
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Shopify Inc. is an Ottawa, Canada-based e-commerce platform — listed on NYSE (NYSE: SHOP) — providing 4.82+ million active merchant stores of all sizes (from solo entrepreneurs to enterprise brands) with tools for online store creation, multi-channel selling (web, mobile, social, in-person), payment processing (Shopify Payments, Shop Pay), inventory management, fulfillment, and marketing analytics, generating $8.88 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2024 (+26% year-over-year) with $292.28 billion in gross merchandise volume (GMV, +24%) and 875+ million customers who have purchased from Shopify merchant stores. Founded in 2006 by Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake (started as a snowboard equipment store, pivoted to become the platform), Shopify has become the operating system for independent commerce — the default e-commerce infrastructure for the direct-to-consumer brand economy.
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