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00:00And my life was consumed with two things. One was sports and the second was working. So I worked from a young age. I had a little bike business at the back of my house. We used to have a council shed and I used to walk up and down the alleys and look in the back of people's homes and see all these rusty old bikes.
00:21And I'd knock on the door and say, could I throw your bikes away? And they, of course, would say yes. And I'd take the bike parts and I'd rub them down. I'd re-chrome them. And I used to have a little bike shop at the back. I did a painting business, a car cleaning business and, you know, basically an egg round and really did anything that we could to make money.
00:42There was no such thing as pocket money. It didn't exist. And it was a good childhood. I started initially, so I was a baker out of school and worked at Boakitz Baker and then Safeways. Then I went into the tissue industry, Bowwater Scott, and then lots of subsidiaries, a little bit of time in the apparel space.
01:02And then basically, I sold out. And I worked my way up. I started as a sales representative. I became a sales executive. I became a field sales manager. That was my first management position. I became a regional manager. I became a national sales manager. I then became a vice president. Then I became a managing director, a president, a CEO, and a chairman. So I worked all my way up.
01:30And after several years, I realized that the best way to make money was to actually own and sell businesses. And, you know, through the course of my career, I've been involved in some way in transactions that total about $11 billion.