#118 with Harley Finkelstein (Shopify's President) - Why You Should Drop Out Of School and Start a Shopify Store

I feel like I can rule the world, I know I can be what I want to Uh I put my all in it like no day song On a roll less travel never looking back We are here, we're live. Harley, what's going on? Um Sean, how are you?

I'm doing great. Hey Sean, hey Sam, good to good to be here. We're gonna get to intros in a second. apologies if my internet is gonna suck. I um I'm recruiting this guy Who lives in Philly to be a writer at my company and I'm currently living in New York, but like he was like, you know, I'm not sure. So I just got in a car and I went and rented a hotel for two days and I just showed up at his house and I was like

to recruit him and convince him to join my company. And uh so that's kinda why I'm at this hotel. I used to do fake I I used to do fake trips by the way to Seattle. Like just fate like I I I had to be in Seattle. So I I'll just be in town and uh and actually uh the person that runs Ecosystems probably the greatest leader I've ever recruited, uh came from one of those meetings where every year for like three years I would just happen to be in Seattle and we'd happen to have breakfast and eventually he's like, All right, I'm ready to jump ship. So um I get it. Yeah, so I did one of those trips and I booked the hotel for two nights because I was like, If he doesn't say yes the first day I'm for sure here the second day, so I'm gonna show up again. Totally.

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