Harley Finkelstein
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What, like, I forget all the different components of it, but that's generally the icky guy.
Immediately, as I began to even understand what Ikigai was, I was like, that's it for me.
It's like this role, the storyteller, the president of the company, where my job is to infect in the most positive way the world with the Shopify message that every enterprise merchant on the planet that should be on Shopify, I'm going to convince them to do so.
that every partner that should work with us, I'm going to convince them that every investor knows exactly how great of a company this is, that every media opportunity I have, I'm going to talk about the, the, this journey, this product, this, this incredible piece of software we've built, why it is so important.
Why it is so dramatically different than everything else that has come before us.
I don't know.
It was four or five years ago.
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it completely changed my energy levels.
It made me exothermic again.
It made me excited again.
It made me want to recommit year after year after year to Shopify and to Tobii and to this mission that we're on.
I fell in love with the mission again.
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...