Harley Finkelstein

I almost forgot about the mission for a while.

It became so operational.

And what it also substantiated was that

I didn't have to be good at all these different things.

If the one thing that I feel I can be world-class, to go back to that concept, is sufficiently value-add that will change the company, that will change the direction of the company, that's enough.

I am enough to do that.

And I...

I really think that most companies end up looking at a buffet of their leaders and looking at the slots that are available and just go like, go here, go here, go there.

And I think it takes a very thoughtful and very often a founder CEO or founder leader like Toby, someone like that to say, okay, here are the players I have.

Here are the things that are most important.

I'm going to skill match them.

So it isn't who's been there the longest or who's had that job somewhere else.

It is who is the very best person on the planet, not in the company, on the planet for this job.

And that person exists here.

That's the job they should do.

It allowed me to recommit for a lot longer to Shopify, to working here, to helping to build this company.

It's made me a lot happier.

Even Lindsay would say that...

Between 2020 and 2022, which I use those years because we're still in COVID and like we're still work from home and I wasn't around a lot of people.

And as a power extrovert, that was challenging for me.