Harley Finkelstein
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I was like, I'm going to get good at this, but it was never natural to me.
Never felt like I was in my flow state, but I liked it.
I liked having a big team.
I liked being responsible for a lot of things.
There was a little bit of ego in there.
Um, I felt very important and, and,
It took me a while to realize that maybe this isn't for me.
Maybe I'm not the right person to do it.
Around the same time, I had someone that we had hired that was reporting to me who was running our payments team, Kaz.
In almost every interaction I had, it did sort of feel like, man, Cass really likes operations.
Like he just, it feels like his ground state.
He's kind of always doing it.
And so I saw glimmers of like what people that are truly operationally minded look like.
But a couple hurdles I had.
One is that I don't think I was ready to admit that this was not for me.
This wasn't my thing.
I don't like to admit that I'm not good at something.
I prefer to get better at it.
I also, I think I was afraid to say the thing I want to do is like storytelling.
It felt like maybe that's not enough.