If you are reading this, you’ve probably done much research into Shopify already, which is great. Shopify is the third-largest ecommerce platform behind eBay and Amazon, supporting 1.7 million businesses ranging from corporate giants to mom-and-pop shops.  But you may wonder where it all began. For the curious, we’ve put together a little history lesson to explain the ecommerce platform’s early days, who runs it, and what transpired to drive it to expand into one of the most prominent ecommerce platforms today.…