Harley Finkelstein

That feeling of scarcity is in me.

There's a bunch of negative externalities that come with that.

But the other thing that came with it is

what I believe to be an incredible amount of ambition.

And that ambition and that energy, you and I have a lot of mutual friends, and I think most of our mutual friends would describe me as someone that is constantly high energy.

That high energy

mostly comes from a place of joie de vivre and excitement and you know i heard this great quote that part of being happy is being excited by the elements all the elements of your life i'm excited by all the elements of my life and i think that while i probably have a complicated relationship with my dad i am here and i have this life partially because of him thank you for sharing that

I'm not a generalist.

I've never been a generalist.

If you were to ask Lindsay, if you'd ask my wife, in fact, if you were to ask my eight-year-old daughter, Bailey, or my six-year-old daughter, Zoe, what our family motto is, they'd all tell you the exact same thing.

It is, how you do anything is how you do everything.

That is our family motto, which, frankly, it means, because they're six and eight, it means it's my family motto, and I've just sort of told them that's our family motto, and they've adopted it wholesale.

Eventually, they'll be old enough to decide whether it's for them or not.

But that motto, certainly for me and Lindsay, my wife,

It describes our life.

There is an intentionality about everything that we do in our lives.

The way that I think about leading this incredible company with my team at Shopify, to the way Lindsay thinks about cooking dinner, to the wine that I've been thinking about you and I are going to drink later tonight.

There's a great intentionality about all these things.

And I think that makes life fun and interesting.

But what I've come to realize, this is my 16th year at Shopify.