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Episode 26: Babak Nikraftar (opens the original)
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How do you go from drowning in debt and owing the CRA to winning national home building awards? You embrace the quicksand. Babak Nikraftar, founder of Forte Projects, builds some of the most stunning custom homes in Vancouver. But the trophies and Georgie Awards hide a gritty beginning. Babak opens up about the absolute lowest points of his entrepreneurial journey—maxing out credit cards, facing tax collections, and enduring the intense, sleepless loneliness of building a business from scratch.
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