“I bought computers… took them apart… sold them… the company became a multi-hundred-million-dollar company in Canada.”

David Chalk · Dyslexia Explored · #189: Dyslexia, Building Businesses and Learning to Read at 62 with David Chalk

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Founded a computer-building and resale company that grew to a multi-hundred-million-dollar business in Canada

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