Mark Carney Could Have Run Shopify—Instead, He’s Running Canada

Mark Carney is currently vying to secure his position as Canada’s Prime Minister. But five years ago, he almost became president—of Shopify. Carney was offered a role at the Canadian e-commerce company shortly after leaving his job as governor of the Bank of England, according to a former Shopify executive.

“In 2020, I spent an hour interviewing Mark Carney for a job,” said Craig Miller, who worked at Shopify for nearly a decade and served as its chief product officer between 2017 and 2020, in a recent LinkedIn post.