Episode Overview
In this new episode Steven sits down with the Canadian entrepreneur and President of Shopify, Harley Finkelstein.
Harley was 17 years when we started his first company selling T-shirts at University. Later, while studying law at the University of Ottawa, Harley met the future co-founder of Shopify, Tobias Lütke, and became an early adopter of the platform. After graduating from law school, Harley worked as a lawyer before joining Shopify in 2010 as it’s first employee. Since then Harley has helped Shopify grow from a start-up to one of the world’s leading e-commerce platforms in the world, powering over 1 million businesses in 175 countries.
In this conversation Harley and Steven discuss topics, such as:
Harley’s mission to make more people into entrepreneurs
Why Harley had no choice but to become an entrepreneur
Downshifting and what ‘being enough’ truly means
Why Harley searches for meaning rather than happiness
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