Harley Finkelstein

We want to make entrepreneurship more accessible, but we think that entrepreneurship allows anyone to do that.

It's the great equalizer.

The way that I think I had the most amount of value to Shopify is the same thing that I want to be more classed at, which is...

Um, maybe start with, I mean, professionally, I think I am, I'm pretty hard on myself in terms of achievement.

Um, years ago I read something about the concept of, of abundance versus, uh, scarcity mindsets.

And I think generally I do not have an abundance mindset about the things in my life.

Some of that may be, I don't know, this is going deep in the first minute, but some of that might just be like multi-generational trauma, which I actually believe in.

I think I carry some of the weight of my grandparents, Holocaust survivors, the weight of my father who struggled his whole life financially.

But I think the way it manifests most is probably with my own career that I still don't think I'm doing enough, that I have enough, that I am enough.

And that's probably the largest area where I think I have very high standards.

Maybe the second one is just I have very high standards for relationships.

I think that the friendships that I have, I hold very dearly in my life.

And because I hold them dearly, I hold them up to a very high caliber of quality.

And sometimes that disappoints people.

Sometimes that means those people disappoint me.

Those are probably the two major ones.

My dad is an immigrant to, we're sitting here in Montreal.

He immigrated here in the 50s.

His parents were Holocaust survivors.

After the Holocaust, they were in the concentration camps.