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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Harley Finkelstein, President of Shopify | Office Hours, Season 3

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we talk with Harley Finkelstein about Shopify, the power of entrepreneurship, and the trends shaping the future of e-commerce and digital marketing. Harley shares his thoughts on the acceleration of digitalization, staying ahead of the technological curve, and the impact of micro-influencers in the e-commerce space. Learn more about Shopify here: https://www.shopify.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the flavor.

0:03.0

Welcome to Office Hours.

0:05.3

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

0:11.0

to be pleased with this next guest, Harley Finkelstein.

0:13.9

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

0:18.4

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

0:23.6

to Office Hours, Harley.

0:25.7

Great to be here.

0:27.4

Thank you so much for having me.

0:29.5

It's an honor to be on the show.

0:31.0

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

0:35.4

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

0:40.4

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

0:46.6

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

0:52.3

one of the most successful businesses in the world?

0:55.4

It's a great question.

0:57.3

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

1:05.5

for creativity, for solving problems.

1:09.9

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

1:16.0

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

1:21.6

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

1:26.0

would hire me.

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