Finkelstein and Toby adopted a principle that every Shopify employee should be able to give a keynote at their industry conference about how they do their job completely differently than everybody else—targeting global maximum, not local maximum.

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Speaker

Harley Finkelstein

Evidence Quote

“Every person that works at Shopify should be able to go to their industry conference...give the keynote about how they're doing their job completely different than everybody in the crowd”

Source

The President of Shopify on AI, Scaling, & High Agency | Harley Finkelstein— The Knowledge Project Podcast
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:20:34 PM

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