Harley Finkelstein
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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.
Yeah.
And it came with a smaller team.
It just came with less areas of responsibility.
Even though each of those were shallow, I was like, what I really want to do is this other thing.
It's like one area of responsibility, but it's really, really deep.
Is that enough for me?
it became obvious to me that that wasn't the right, the right, the right thing.
And actually I think it became obvious to Toby that like, I wasn't very happy.
I wasn't being my exothermic self.
And for someone that's always been exothermic, that's always been high energy in those sort of, at the end of my, of my, you know, COO stage, I didn't have it.
I just, I wasn't meeting merchants the same way that I, like I love meeting merchants, my favorite thing in the world.
I just, I wasn't,