Harley Finkelstein

Figs completely disrupted Trina and Heather completely disrupted the hospital scrub industry.

You walk in any hospital in North America, maybe in the world, and you look around and see like what most doctors are wearing or nurses are wearing, it's figs.

That didn't exist a decade ago and now they're publicly traded multi-billion dollar company.

So I've already been

It's been astonishing for me to watch from this perspective.

Shopify basically runs about 12% of all US e-commerce.

So if you were to think about just in terms of size-wise, we're like the second largest checkout on the internet, in the US at least, but in other countries, maybe even more so than that.

The trajectory of business growth has been so remarkable so fast.

10 years, you go from an idea to a multi-billion dollar publicly traded company.

Now you add on this layer of AI, which means you can make better decisions faster.

You can make smaller teams way more productive.

I think you're going to have another step function.

I think that you will have this incredible hockey stick curve of businesses that grow from zero to $100 million in GMV inside of three years instead of inside of like 10 years.

I mean, I pray at the altar of entrepreneurship, and there's been a couple things over the last 50 years that has made it much better.

Obviously, the internet has made it much better.

Obviously, things like Shopify has made it much better.

But I think this new era where you have all these things stacked with AI, it is the golden age of entrepreneurship, and I'm here for it.

I mean, you can literally generate a Python script right now in a matter of 30 seconds with open AI right now.

You can generate, you can build an app in a matter of like, I mean, back to what you just said, that reaction of I tried it once, it hallucinated.

I think one of the things that you have to have if you're going to be successful in this new era of business and actually in any era with all this new technology is you have to be a techno-optimist.