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When I was a kid, long before I became the owner of a large, multi-faceted business, my first goal was to become a musician. And when I became a musician I had little money, because music is definitely not a well-paid profession.

I achieved one of my biggest life goals at the time when I moved to Sydney to study at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. I loved studying, and I was doing some gigs and tutoring schoolkids in music to subsidise my AusStudy fees, which were like a government allowance for students in the 1990s.

In those days investing was the last thing on my mind, which in hindsight is pretty strange considering economics was actually my best subject at school. But I could see I wasn't going to make enough money as a teacher and musician. I used to run out of cash every fortnight. I remember one time I had to go to Newcastle for a music competition and didn't have a cent in my bank account, and couldn't even pay for petrol for the car. I was about 20 years old and I thought, this isn't the way I want to be living.