Harley Finkelstein

And it dawned on me that

The reason that I was criticized, we were criticized for this, was that, like, I think a lot of companies are very hand-wavy about AI.

Like, AI is going to change our company and it's going to, like, you know, it's like that poster of, like, an eagle with leadership underneath and people are like, what's our culture?

It's that poster.

No, that's not, like...

That's a stupid poster.

Culture is like what people do, how people feel, what happens when no one's watching.

What does the team do?

That's real culture.

Putting a sign up is completely superficial nonsense.

Well, a lot of companies are sort of talking to the AI right now in a similar sort of superficial nonsense kind of way.

Ultimately, if you think about the mission of Shopify, it's we want to create more entrepreneurs.

We want to make entrepreneurship more accessible.

We want more people to use it to whatever their version of success is.

Maybe it's to be the youngest billionaire in the UK like Ben Francis and Jim Shark, or maybe it's just to afford hockey equipment.

But we think that entrepreneurship allows anyone to do that.

It's the great equalizer.

The unfair advantage that

like unfair like big unfair advantage that large companies have over small companies is headcount that they have a lot of people and so they have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs as easy as we've made entrepreneurship there's still that there's still a resource constraint if you are a one man or one woman or a one person operation you don't have a lot of different teams

What we think is so fundamentally game-changing and mind-blowing about AI is that