Harley Finkelstein

You'll never really know exactly what number you're at. You're never going to say I'm at 87% or 52, but you can sort of understand directionally. Yeah, the trust battery with this person is going up or it's going down. And if it's going down, it better go up pretty soon. Otherwise, you're going to have a problem.

Yeah. Well, first of all, I think culture has a lot of definitions. The best way I have found to gauge culture is what do people do when no one's watching? It's a very simple heuristic, but it speaks volumes. When no one is watching, how does someone on your team in your company operate? And

Yeah. Well, first of all, I think culture has a lot of definitions. The best way I have found to gauge culture is what do people do when no one's watching? It's a very simple heuristic, but it speaks volumes. When no one is watching, how does someone on your team in your company operate? And

I think when you match being really good at hiring the right people and giving them a really great mission, you get incredible results. Our mission is very simple. We want to create more entrepreneurship. Full stop. And this idea of inviting more people into entrepreneurship means that the people that use Shopify, they can find their own versions of success.

I think when you match being really good at hiring the right people and giving them a really great mission, you get incredible results. Our mission is very simple. We want to create more entrepreneurship. Full stop. And this idea of inviting more people into entrepreneurship means that the people that use Shopify, they can find their own versions of success.

For Ben Francis, from Gymshark, like I mentioned earlier, his definition was to change the athletic apparel industry, and he did. Gymshark is incredible. They can be one of the biggest companies on the planet. In the case of Trina, who is the founder of Figs, they completely disrupted the modern-day fashion hospital scrub industry.

For Ben Francis, from Gymshark, like I mentioned earlier, his definition was to change the athletic apparel industry, and he did. Gymshark is incredible. They can be one of the biggest companies on the planet. In the case of Trina, who is the founder of Figs, they completely disrupted the modern-day fashion hospital scrub industry.

If you walk into any hospital now, you see most doctors and nurses and frontline workers wearing certain scrubs. And you see a few, some percentage wearing figs. And the ones wearing figs look better, feel better. So that was Trina's definition of success. But for a lot of others, their definition of success is not disrupting the industry. It's not to become a billionaire.

If you walk into any hospital now, you see most doctors and nurses and frontline workers wearing certain scrubs. And you see a few, some percentage wearing figs. And the ones wearing figs look better, feel better. So that was Trina's definition of success. But for a lot of others, their definition of success is not disrupting the industry. It's not to become a billionaire.

It's not to take their company public. It's just like my grandfather. It's to put food on their table. It's to create a better life for their children and grandchildren. It's to afford ballet lessons or football equipment or whatever their children and their families require of them.

It's not to take their company public. It's just like my grandfather. It's to put food on their table. It's to create a better life for their children and grandchildren. It's to afford ballet lessons or football equipment or whatever their children and their families require of them.

And so what we try to do at Shopify is, because we're a company focused on entrepreneurs, we try to hire entrepreneurs. entrepreneurs. For founders, by founders is sort of the thing I love to talk about. This idea that if you had been affected by entrepreneurship in whatever way, in most positive ways possible, come help us spread more of that around the world.

And so what we try to do at Shopify is, because we're a company focused on entrepreneurs, we try to hire entrepreneurs. entrepreneurs. For founders, by founders is sort of the thing I love to talk about. This idea that if you had been affected by entrepreneurship in whatever way, in most positive ways possible, come help us spread more of that around the world.

Bring in more people into this idea of entrepreneurship. And I think when you do it, when you marry people that care about something with a company that cares about something quite similar, where the Venn diagrams begin to overlap, you get an incredible culture.

Bring in more people into this idea of entrepreneurship. And I think when you do it, when you marry people that care about something with a company that cares about something quite similar, where the Venn diagrams begin to overlap, you get an incredible culture.

You get a culture of people that are obsessed with the people they serve, that are curious about their stories, that want to learn more about them. And I'm really proud of the culture we built. We're about 8,000 people at the company today.

You get a culture of people that are obsessed with the people they serve, that are curious about their stories, that want to learn more about them. And I'm really proud of the culture we built. We're about 8,000 people at the company today.

I'm very proud of the culture, but I think part of it is that we are mission aligned, that everyone that comes to work with us believes that entrepreneurship is important and that Shopify is is spreading entrepreneurship in a disproportionate way to pretty much anybody else. Not to say there's not other people doing it, but we are doing it at this massive scale.

I'm very proud of the culture, but I think part of it is that we are mission aligned, that everyone that comes to work with us believes that entrepreneurship is important and that Shopify is is spreading entrepreneurship in a disproportionate way to pretty much anybody else. Not to say there's not other people doing it, but we are doing it at this massive scale.

And if you feel that's important, you'll probably do really well at Shopify.