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Shilo Jones

Co-founder
Shilo Jones is the co-founder of StatBid and Poolaroo. Over the past 30 years, he’s built e-commerce businesses and helped merchants grow across multiple categories, with plenty of lessons earned the hard way. At StatBid and Poolaroo, the work is team first and operator led. Poolaroo functions as a living laboratory where we run experiments on our own dime, learn fast, and turn those lessons into practical wins we can share with more merchants. Shilo’s long term focus is sustainable commerce by 2050: thriving wages, circular products by design, and carbon neutral logistics.

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A worn permission slip on a corporate desk with the words "Request: To make a decision" — a visual metaphor for workplace permission-seeking culture.

We Built a No-Blame Culture. Why Are People Still Asking Permission?

Ballot with StatBid icon checked yes for strategic direction being placed in a modern ballot box

What Should Go on a Ballot?

Thoughts on Running a Business Democratically At the end of my last post, I landed on a practical question: what...
A close-up of overlapping US one-dollar bills, representing capital allocation and financial decision-making in a business context.

How Should a Company Decide Where the Money Goes?

In the first post, I asked whether a business can be run democratically. That question came into focus during our...
The Liberty Bell.

Can a Business Be Run Democratically?

Over the last couple of years, I’ve been thinking about that question a lot. The idea of running a company...

What’s New from Shopify: Summer Editions ’25 Highlights

Shopify’s Summer Editions ’25 just wrapped up, and was packed with big updates aimed at helping merchants and developers do...