far as to invest in or make loans with small businesses, they just need a little capital as charlie fingelstein just told us, the company is giving out $2 million cumulative to small businesses, otherwise they wouldn't have gotten help. come on, this is america they want to, quote, democratize the opportunity for their clients. the web itself is a fantastic leveler. even a tiny company can have a fortune 500 presence online. yesterday they announced they won't take a cut for the first million dollars of sales of developers that make tools sold. what a bargain that's why this has become a major platform last year alone, 450 million people checked out on shopify. in the united states their platform accounts for roughly 9% of economic sales. i know, not amazon, but number two. if you bought shopify the stock years ago, you're now up 475%. helping small business is good business who else is dpegetting in on th action etsy years ago i was on a panel with the old ceo of etsy. he was determined to help small businesses to the point where he almost wiped out his own company. he brought in josh silverma