This is the flavor.

Welcome to Office Hours.

I'm David Meltzer, and I am here with the legendary crew of mine, and you guys are going

to be pleased with this next guest, Harley Finkelstein.

He is a recovering lawyer like myself, but he's the president of a small company that

you may have heard of called Shopify, and of course co-founder of FireBelly T. Welcome

to Office Hours, Harley.

Great to be here.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's an honor to be on the show.

It's an honor to have you, and when I look at everything, I think to myself, why would

the president of Shopify need to co-found anything else?

And so my first question is utilizing all the skills, knowledge, and desire that you have,

what inspires you to keep co-creating and co-founding businesses when you're already running

one of the most successful businesses in the world?

It's a great question.

Fundamentally, I believe entrepreneurship is the greatest tool on the planet for self-actualization

for creativity, for solving problems.

When I was 13 years old, I'm Jewish, I grew up in sort of the Jewish community, and I went

to a lot of barbed-mitzvahs and butt-mitzvahs, and I remember seeing DJs every Saturday night

at these barbed-mitzvahs, and more than anything in the world I want to be a DJ, but nobody

would hire me.

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