President, Shopify.
With Shopify since 2010; earlier its Chief Operating Officer. Has founded several startups and ecommerce companies. Economics degree from Concordia University; JD/MBA from the University of Ottawa.
Why their word counts: Presents the business on every earnings call, where statements fall under securities disclosure rules. An executive with an interest in presenting Shopify favorably.
Profile from this source, checked 2026-10-19.
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AI right now writes well over 50% of our code today, and that number is going up significantly, not down.
Harley FinkelsteinPresident · Executive, 
Shopify
Earnings call: earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), May 5, 2026.
we now have a number of distilled models where we take a teacher model, usually a big frontier model, then teach a specific use case to a smaller model
Harley FinkelsteinPresident · Executive, Shopify
Earnings call: earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), August 5, 2026.
We shipped over 300. new products and features last year alone. We kept our flat headcount, which we're very proud of
Harley FinkelsteinPresident · Executive, Shopify
Earnings call: earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), May 5, 2026.
Scout is an internal voice of the customer system that indexes hundreds of millions of merchant feedback items, making them searchable within our tools.
Harley FinkelsteinPresident · Executive, Shopify
Earnings call: earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), earnings call transcript via Platform Aeronaut (third-party transcript site), November 4, 2025.
