Harley Finkelstein (Shopify) - Building a 100-Year Company & the Future of AI Commerce

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On this episode, Shopify President Harley Finkelstein joins us to unpack: Why Harley says entrepreneurship is "the greatest equalizer," and how watching his refugee father and his grandfather's egg stall shaped how he thinks about starting a business The research Shopify did into why the average tenure of an S&P 500 company has dropped from 30 years to under 20, and what that taught Harley about building a "100-year company" Why Shopify deliberately ships features before they're fully baked, and which parts of the platform, like checkout and payments, are never allowed to break What happened when Harley typed the same request into ChatGPT and Google looking for a screen-free phone for his…