How Harley Finkelstein, Shopify’s Earliest User, Became its President | Unofficial Shopify Pod ep436

w/ Harley Finkelstein, Firebelly Tea Co-Founder, Shopify President. TIMESTAMPS BELOW
Also available on iTunes and Spotify: link.chtbl.com/tusp
TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:54 SHOPIFY license plate
00:04:46 Unite, "it was the story of entrepreneurship"
00:00:00 "create more value for others than we capture for ourselves"
00:10:34 Harley and Tobi meet
00:13:22 Law of Ecology
00:16:38 Is Shopify still No1?
00:21:53 Prioritizing Features
00:22:44 Ecommerce or just Commerce?
00:26:30 Most Proud of?
00:29:44 Biggest Mistake?
00:35:03 The Baggage around Entrepreneurship
00:38:45 Firebelly Tea
00:47:36 The KaChing / ChaChing Sound
00:49:17 Fave Biz Book
00:49:43 "who inspires you?"
00:50:34 VR headsets: cop or drop?
00:51:19 Fave Shopify Buys
00:52:37 Black Friday Advice
Before Harley Finkelstein was President of Shopify, he was one of their first customers, selling t-shirts on a Shopify store sixteen years ago. In 2010, he joined the company as a "jack of all trades" and now serves as its president.
Today, Shopify as a platform is the second largest online retailer in the U.S., and Harley is once again a merchant selling on Shopify.
In this episode, Harley opens up to us to share his origin story, why ecommerce is an outdated term, what hes most proud of at Shopify, and where he thinks he could have done better.
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