Shopify President: How To Become A Millionaire For The Price Of A Starbucks Coffee!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

In this new episode Steven sits down with the Canadian entrepreneur and President of Shopify, Harley Finkelstein. Harley was 17 years when we started his first company selling T-shirts at University. Later, while studying law at the University of Ottawa, Harley met the future co-founder of Shopify, Tobias Lütke, and became an early adopter of the platform. After graduating from law school, Harley worked as a lawyer before joining Shopify in 2010 as it’s first employee. Since then Harley has helped Shopify grow from a start-up to one of the world’s leading e-commerce platforms in the world, powering over 1 million businesses in 175 countries. In this conversation Harley and Steven discuss topics, such as: Harley’s mission to make more people into entrepreneurs Why Harley had no choice but to become an entrepreneur Downshifting and what ‘being enough’ truly means Why Harley searches for meaning rather than happiness Follow: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3M49FnB Twitter: https://bit.ly/3M3BLPF Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	One of the greatest hacks for being an ambitious hard-driving entrepreneur is
0:04.8	and that's why Kylie Jenner is nothing short of Berlin.
0:08.0	Harley-Fekelstein is the president of Shopify and one of the largest
0:11.2	e-commerce platforms worth over 60 billion dollars.
0:14.0	He's helped scale brands worldwide.
0:15.7	And he's now on a mission to help you start your own business.
0:18.7	About a month into college, I got a call from my mom
0:21.8	and said, dad's been arrested and he's going to jail.
0:24.0	College is over.
0:25.0	And I was shifted into this survival mode.
0:28.0	I had no choice.
0:29.0	I think it's a very powerful driver.
0:30.0	I met Toby around that time.
0:32.0	The initial idea had lots of other competitors. This was not this massive novel thing. We just did it better and that was how shot that was boring.
0:38.0	There's a perception that entrepreneurship is very expensive. That's not true. It's less than a couple
0:43.0	Starbucks coffees to go start a business today. There's so far too many people that
0:46.1	work at a job they absolutely hate because they think they have no choice.
0:48.8	No one had this massive 80-page business plan and then got started.
0:52.6	That's not how business are created.
0:54.0	They're created based on this nugget of an idea.
0:56.0	And they're explored and you get curious about,
0:57.7	you try this other stuff, and that's how you build companies
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