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Finkelstein: Every Shopify employee should be able to keynote on doing their job differently
“Every person that works at Shopify should be able to go to their Industry conference, whatever their category, whatever area they're in business, and they should give the keynote about how they're doing their job, completely different than everybody in the cro…”
Finkelstein: Abandoning AI over occasional hallucinations will cause professionals to fall behind
“I think one of the things that you have to have if you're going to be successful in this new era of business and actually in any era with all this new technology is you have to be a techno optimist. You have to believe that things are getting so good at such a…”
Finkelstein: Mutual accountability partnerships are how $100B companies are built
“Most people need someone else to help them pull up to the next level, and if you find someone like that, and you sort of Mutually commit to one another. I mean, that's real partnership that makes for, that's how you build a hundred billion dollar company, I th…”
Finkelstein: Founders should partner with peers across distinct, non-overlapping domains
“My advice would be, if you're in, like, drama club, go find someone, like, in the AV club, and then go find someone in, like, the computer, like, the coding club, and go find someone, like, who's painting. And those should be your co-founders, because each of …”
Finkelstein: Companies Should Skill-Match Leaders to World-Class Strengths Rather Than Tenure
“I really think that most companies end up looking at a buffet of their leaders and looking at the slots that are available and just go like, go here, go there. And I think it takes a very thoughtful and very often a founder CEO or founder leader like Toby, som…”
Harley Finkelstein: Earnings calls must be treated as storytelling opportunities
“This idea that even the way that I treat earnings, it's not an earnings call for me. It's a storytelling opportunity.”
Finkelstein: Passion-based 'life's work' entrepreneurship is historically unprecedented
“Forced entrepreneurship and passion-based entrepreneurship are very, very different things. And the idea of us, you doing your life's work and me doing my life's work, that is a concept that was foreign to our parents and grandparents.”
Finkelstein: Emulating a single mentor fully forces you to adopt their flaws
“If you try to cargo cult everything about one particular person, you're going to adopt all their good stuff and all their bad stuff. Instead, it's much easier to figure out what are the couple things I want to get good at.”
Finkelstein: Leaders should rotate business coaches once their toolbox is exhausted
“One of the things I think about coaching and business coaches in particular is at some point, you end up hearing a lot of the same stories or lessons or tools, meaning they have this wonderful toolbox, and part of what you're paying them to be your coaches for…”