ETRADE vs Shopify
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Morgan Stanley-owned (MS, $13B acquisition 2020) online brokerage with commission-free trading and advanced options platform; competing with Fidelity, Schwab, and Robinhood for retail investor brokerage.
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E*TRADE is a Morgan Stanley-owned online brokerage and financial services platform providing self-directed investors with commission-free stock and ETF trading, options and futures trading, retirement accounts (IRAs, Roth IRAs), managed portfolios, and banking services through web and mobile platforms. Founded in 1982 in Menlo Park and one of the pioneers of retail online trading, E*TRADE was acquired by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) for $13 billion in October 2020, integrating E*TRADE's retail brokerage with Morgan Stanley's wealth management business.
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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