Ep. 03 – Building Shopify with Harley Finkelstein

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Careers, Business, Management, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 224 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Harley Finkelstein, COO of Shopify joins us to talk about how he and Tobias Lutke worked together in building Shopify – a rapidly-growing commerce platform with over 500,000 online stores, 3,000 employees, and $46 billion in sales. Harley shares about the kind of culture they have in Shopify, as well as gives some tips about […]

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0:00.0	Every year my job completely changes.
0:02.6	So whether that's, hey, I got to get really good at
0:05.0	fundraising or I get it really good at building a sales award,
0:06.8	or I get really good in hiring the most talented people
0:09.3	and poaching them from the biggest companies on the planet,
0:12.1	or in 2015, I had to get really good
0:14.3	if I've taken a company public.
0:16.1	Welcome to Second in Command brought to you by C.O.O. Alliance.
0:22.1	We're top-level COOs share the insights, tactics,
0:26.0	and strategies that made them the chief behind the chief.
0:29.9	And now, here's your host Cameron Harold.
0:33.3	Hi everyone, welcome to this edition of the Second and Command
0:35.7	podcast, The Chief Behind the Chief.
0:38.1	Today we're talking with Harley Finkelstein.
0:40.5	Harley is a Canadian businessman entrepreneur and public speaker.
0:44.0	He's also the best known as the chief operating officer for Shopify.
0:48.6	He's on the board of the C100 and an advisor to both Omer's Ventures Ventures.
0:55.0	He's also a dragon on CBC Dragons Den,
0:58.0	which is the Canadian version of Shark Tank.
1:00.0	In his early life, Harley was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, and at 17 he founded a
1:05.2	T-shirt company while attending McGill University, later transferred to Concordia University
1:10.0	and received his bachelor's degree in economics.
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