Harley Finkelstein is an entrepreneur, lawyer, and the President of Shopify. He founded his first company at age 17 while a student at McGill. Harley completed his law degree as well as his MBA at the University of Ottawa. Harley was one of the “Dragons” on CBC’s Next Gen Den and starred on Discovery Channel’s I Quit. He received the Canadian Angel Investor of the Year Award, Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Award, Fortune’s 40 Under 40, and was inducted into the Order of Ottawa. From 2014 to 2017 Harley was on the Board of Directors of the C100, and from 2017 to 2020 he was on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). He is currently on the Board of Directors of the National Retail Federation, Montreal Children's Hospital Foundation and Operation Hope. Harley recently co-founded Firebelly, a modern high-end tea brand, and created Big Shot, a project and podcast that archives the stories of the greatest Jewish entrepreneurs of the last century.
Shopify has grown from five people meeting in a coffee shop to over 10,000 employees across the globe.
Shopify is an all-in-one commerce platform for creating, launching, managing and growing a business. Its mission: making commerce better for everyone. Shopify helps people achieve independence by making it easier to start, run, and grow a business. Believing that the future of commerce lies in the multiplication of the number of merchants, Shopify aims to reduce the barriers to starting a business, making commerce accessible to all.
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