Harley Finkelstein | President of Shopify BREAKS HIS SILENCE On Antisemitism
Meaningful People
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🗓️ 8 June 2024
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Harley Finkelstein is an entrepreneur, lawyer, and the President of Shopify. He founded his first company at age 17 while a student at McGill. Harley completed his law degree as well as his MBA at the University of Ottawa.
Harley was one of the “Dragons” on CBC’s Next Gen Den and starred on Discovery Channel’s I Quit. He received the Canadian Angel Investor of the Year Award, Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Award, Fortune’s 40 Under 40, and was inducted into the Order of Ottawa.
From 2014 to 2017 Harley was on the Board of Directors of the C100, and from 2017 to 2020 he was on to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He is currently on the Board of Directors of the National Retail Federation, and Operation Hope.
Harley recently co-founded Firebelly, a modern high-end tea brand, and created @bigshotpodcast , a project and podcast that archives the stories of the greatest Jewish entrepreneurs of the last century.
In this episode, Harley discusses Jewish pride, October 7, Israel, and antisemitism.
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| 0:00.0 | Harley-Feingkelstein is the president of Shopify and one of the largest e-commerce platforms worth over 60 billion dollars. |
| 0:05.8 | He's helped scale brands worldwide. I think October 7 changed everything because it felt like |
| 0:10.4 | I began to feel to get comments to get messages, |
| 0:14.6 | DMs, posts that frankly were anti-Semitic. |
| 0:21.0 | And I just, it sort of felt like, oh oh that's what it feels like that's what you know my |
| 0:26.7 | grandmother was talking that's my father was talking about and I think that for |
| 0:30.0 | those listening that are struggling with that right now, I get it. |
| 0:33.2 | We're all struggling with it. |
| 0:34.4 | It is not easy right now to be Jewish, to be a proud Jew. |
| 0:38.4 | Whether you wear a Yamaka or your last seems Finkelstein or you, it is difficult right now to do that and that's what makes it |
| 0:44.8 | meaningful because it doesn't actually cost you anything if you're a proud |
| 0:50.3 | Jew four years ago it was. Right now it costs you something and that therefore |
| 0:56.3 | it makes it more meaningful. And if you want to be a meaningful person or meaningful people, this is sort of the time to show that courage, that audacity, |
| 1:08.5 | that pride. |
| 1:09.5 | Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of the Meaningful People |
| 1:14.0 | podcast talking to you from the studio in Valley Stream New York. |
| 1:18.8 | Very excited about this episode with none other than Harley Finkelstein. It's a shorter episode but it is |
| 1:24.6 | packed with a lot of wisdom. Harley is the president of Shopify. He was the CEO of Shopify at one point. |
| 1:34.3 | He's the president of Shopify, a multi-billion dollar company that is a household name. |
| 1:39.7 | If you've bought stuff online, you've used Shopify and Harley really has been leaning more into his Judaism since October 7th in a very strong way. |
| 1:50.0 | And we spoke to him about that in this episode. |
| 1:52.0 | Thank you Shlami Zions for making this happen. |
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