{"id":4731,"date":"2020-08-21T13:02:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T13:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpsites.co\/coach\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2023-04-20T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T14:39:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dorianwidling.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I try not to start anything I can’t see myself doing for the next ten to twenty years.<\/em><\/h1>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n
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How I got started on this path<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some kids spend their time playing basketball, other kids get absorbed by video games. As a kid, I spent my time imagining the future in vivid detail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The future felt like a long way away when I was fifteen, but to me that was a good thing, because it meant I had time to build something truly significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that’s where my obsession with investing began. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few dollars earned here and there, small scraps of allowance put into a lock-box. Eventually, I had enough to open a trading account under my father’s name, and I never looked back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things didn’t always go well. They rarely do. But when you’re focused on the next thirty to fifty years, a hiccup in the economy, the bursting of a bubble, and a market crash won’t stop you for long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years after I started investing, I applied to one of Canada’s most notoriously selective universities: the Royal Military College of Canada. I spent four years there honing the skills that I knew would help me in the world of business: communication, leadership, discipline, and focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I didn’t truly understand the importance of those skills until after I’d left the military sixteen years later and started my own company, BTC. Faced with the challenge of growing a business, I turned back to a skill I’d developed over the years: investing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It quickly became obvious that the fastest road to scale was through mergers and acquisitions. And this is the road I find myself on today: building a portfolio of great businesses, whether public or private, with the goal of creating long-term wealth for all parties involved. And what a road it’s been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dorian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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