Harley Finkelstein

It describes our life.

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.

I'm 41.

So I've been here for not quite half my life, but almost.

The way that I think I had the most amount of value to Shopify is the same thing that I want to be what class at, which is I want to be a great storyteller.

I don't think I'm there yet.

I've met truly world-class storytellers.

We can sort of get into some of those later on.

I'm not there yet, but that is the thing I want to be the best at.

I love playing tennis.

I don't think I'm ever going to be a world-class tennis player.

I love to ski.

I don't think I'll ever be a world-class skier.

There are things in my life, like DJ, I don't think I'm ever going to be a world-class DJ.

There are things I do in my life that are fun, that are strictly for enjoyment, and I enjoy the craft of it.

But storytelling in particular is something that when I look at all the different things I've done at Shopify, it's a thing that I think has added the most amount of value to the company.

And this also speaks to my dynamic, this yin and yang dynamic that I have with Toby, which is that I've sort of always, in hindsight now I can sort of see this, but I've always sort of viewed my role as he is the greatest product person I've ever met in my life.