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Harley Finkelstein

πŸ‘€ Speaker
1851 total appearances

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The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

He's this incredible tech visionary, especially when it comes to commerce.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

And my job has kind of always been to take the brilliant things he's built and tell the world about it, tell investors, tell the media, tell our merchants, tell partners.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

And it gives me great joy.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

I love doing it.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

It's that, you know, when your Saturday morning feels like your Monday morning, you know, you're onto something really great, which is sort of the opposite of, you know, what people describe as like Sunday scaries, which I've never felt my whole life, but I know people do find that that to be a real thing.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

It's storytelling.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

Those are harder things.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

very difficult to ping the satellite and get a ping back to know whether or not that's actually happening.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

With storytelling, I can get third-party objective feedback.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

Being a world-class father and husband, it's more difficult to track that.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

But those are things that are very important to me.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

It is very important to me that my kids believe that I'm a world-class father and my wife thinks I'm a world-class husband.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

And that comes actually less natural to me than storytelling.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

Storytelling is sort of my ground state.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

It's the thing that I would do if I didn't have anything else to do and I was left to my own devices.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

I would tell stories.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

I like telling stories.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

Being a great husband often means doing things that are unnatural.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

A simple example that I think a lot of us fall into the trap of seems to be more of something that men suffer from, at least in my experience, which is that Lindsay comes home with a problem.

The Knowledge Project
Harley Finkelstein: You Must Requalify for Your Role, Every Year

And my immediate reaction is to try to help her solve that problem.