Harley Finkelstein

I know how hard it was.

But I also see how Lindsay, how my wife, sees my relationship with things that I've done, in particular with Shopify.

Lindsay has great...

a wonderful emotional connection it's shopify for lindsey even my wife is not just a company she remembers you know those early days she remembers those like being on top of tucker's marketplace in the byword market uh the office stunk like the buffet restaurant and and struggling this is pre pre-series a even and and i i like that i love that she knows that she knows how meaningful because she's seen the entire journey um my kids were born in the last

eight years or so.

They kind of only know our life being pretty good.

Our lives changed post IPO.

I don't think that's a secret.

Financially, my life changed and I don't take it for granted, but I kind of wish they knew what Lindsay and my first apartment looked like in Ottawa, Canada and how gross it was.

It wasn't gross because it was dirty.

It was just, it was a nice apartment because we couldn't afford anything else.

And so

what i often what lindsey often tells me is just like yeah the kids didn't see that but but tell them those stories and so i do i tell those kids i tell my daughters the stories of those early days and how scary it was and we didn't know if it was going to succeed or not and i want them to see that i think i don't want them to think any of this came simply because it was fate or just kind of happened or you know uh i mean luck plays a role here but

this was sheer grit and willpower.

And it still is.

Part of the reason why I like starting these small projects like Big Shot or Firebelly is I want the kids to see that.

I want the kids to see this thing that, you know, that first episode of Big Shot we did was, it was Charles Bronfman and,

It didn't do very well.

I wasn't very good at it.

I wasn't a good interviewer.