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Finkelstein: Shopify expects employees to test AI before hiring additional headcount
“The expectation is before you go and try to hire another person for your team, you ask yourself and you test whether or not some sort of AI tool can actually do it better for you. And if it can, that's what you should be doing.”
Finkelstein: Shopify leaders must re-qualify for their roles every year
“On our team that whatever, whatever the thing you're responsible for, you are going to try to be the very, very best in the world at that particular thing. Product design, sales, storytelling, finance, legal, whatever that might be. That's the commitment. And …”
Finkelstein: Multigenerational trauma drives a scarcity mindset and high career standards
“I think generally I do not have an abundance mindset about the things in my life. Some of that may be, I don't know, this is going deep in the first minute, but some of them might just be like multi-generational trauma, which I actually believe in. I think I c…”
Finkelstein: Father served five to six years for white-collar crime
“Was when I was 17, my dad was arrested... He was arrested for white collar crimes and for business crimes... And he was willing to risk what ended up being five or six years of federal prison time to provide that for us.”
Finkelstein: Storytelling provides his highest value to Shopify
“The way that I think I had the most amount of value to Shopify is the same thing that I want to be well-classed at, which is I want to be a great storyteller.”
Finkelstein splits week into meeting days and Tuesday/Thursday maker days
“I try to kind of bundle my meeting days on certain days, usually Monday, Wednesday, Fridays, and then more of my, like, my maker days, Tuesdays and Thursdays, where I can have long form blocks of time to do thinking, to do writing”
Finkelstein uploads all his blood tests and speeches to Claude
“For Claude, what I do is I have, like I have a project for, like, health and wellness, so every blood test I have, I upload there. Actually, Toby kind of showed me how to, like, how to create these projects in a really interesting way that has these great trig…”