Fabrizio Assabese

Chief Growth Officer

Fabrizio Assabese is Chief Growth Officer at Judge.me. His work connects data, growth strategy and commercial decision-making, drawing on experience across fintech and SaaS. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and an Executive MBA from SDA Bocconi, and co-authors research on the Shopify app ecosystem.

Papers by this author

Shopify Ecosystem

Preprint

Scale, Concentration, and Entry Timing in the Shopify App Ecosystem: A Longitudinal Study of Platform Governance and Application Survival

Extends the original snapshot with weekly app observations from 2019–2026 to examine platform governance, competition and application survival.

F. Assabese, P.-J. Celis · Judge.me; G. Destefanis · UCL

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Shopify Ecosystem

Published paper

Scale, Concentration, and Entry Timing in the Shopify App Ecosystem

A September 2025 snapshot of 4,213 active apps and 55 categories, examining concentration and the relationship between entry timing and recent growth.

F. Assabese · Judge.me, G. Destefanis · UCL