Harley Finkelstein

All the great stuff that comes along with that, that is not good enough anymore.

And actually, at Shopify, I think that's truly, I mean, the source of that energy is Toby.

That there's probably no one that I've ever met on the planet.

I've worked with Toby now for almost two decades.

You know him very well, too.

He's a friend of yours as well.

There is no one that pushes himself to be the very best at product and technology the way he does.

And so he inspires all of us to just continuously say, okay, last year was pretty good.

This next year, I think I can, like, I think there's another gear left.

That's actually the gift that he has given me in my career is that he's consistently over, you know, almost two decade period.

He has been the person more than anyone in my life, maybe other than Lindsay, who has seen a better version of me than I saw for myself.

He keeps reminding me all the time.

It happened a couple weeks ago.

We were on an offsite that there is another gear in me.

And so now he presents that, that optionality, that, that, that, that opportunity.

And now it's up to me to actually go through.

Um, and I think for someone with my personality, with someone with my ambition, that works very well for me.

He's much more German about it.

Um,

Which is funny because he sort of calls it the German, it's like the German thing for him, but it's actually also like the Jewish mother thing for me, which is, you know, you just got 98% on your exam, you go show your mom, and your mom says, great, what happened to the other 2%?