Harley Finkelstein

No one thinks about Japanese cotton versus American cotton more than he does.

No one thinks about, actually, these are called the parachute pants.

These are his favorite pants.

I hung out with him a couple weeks ago and we both literally walked in wearing the exact same thing.

Of course, his pants are amazing because he made these pants for himself.

It just turns out that thousands of other people also want to wear those pants.

The idea that the people that are running businesses are deeply connected to those businesses and the products they're creating, I think, is a new way to run companies that our parents and grandparents didn't have.

Some, you know, go back 150 years, some of the bakers truly loved baking.

But some of them just did so because they had to survive.

My grandfather had no interest in eggs whatsoever.

Anytime I tried to engage him on eggs, I got a blank stare.

He wasn't selling eggs because he cared about eggs.

He was selling eggs as a means of survival.

Forced entrepreneurship and passion-based entrepreneurship are very, very different things.

And the idea of us, you doing your life's work and me doing my life's work, that is a concept that was foreign to our parents and grandparents.

Life's work.

That's a nice, you know, like, I've never said that to my grandpa.

That's a luxury, young man.

You know, wow, aren't you lucky?

That sounds like a hobby to me.