Harley Finkelstein

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.

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

Going back to the fake it till you make it. You can fake it till you make it for a period of time. I did that with t-shirts. But the mentor of mine in 2005 who said, your t-shirt business is nice, but this is not going to be your life's work, that concept. He was right. That I think where you find your life's work is where your personal mission and your professional mission overlap.

Going back to the fake it till you make it. You can fake it till you make it for a period of time. I did that with t-shirts. But the mentor of mine in 2005 who said, your t-shirt business is nice, but this is not going to be your life's work, that concept. He was right. That I think where you find your life's work is where your personal mission and your professional mission overlap.

They don't have to overlap entirely, but where they begin to overlap, you begin to see glimmers of what people often refer to as life's work. And this idea of life's work is not something that my grandfather or my grandmother could have ever even, the term was not something they ever thought about because that almost seems like a luxury.

They don't have to overlap entirely, but where they begin to overlap, you begin to see glimmers of what people often refer to as life's work. And this idea of life's work is not something that my grandfather or my grandmother could have ever even, the term was not something they ever thought about because that almost seems like a luxury.