Nothing quite focuses your mind like the threat of losing your house. Just ask Greg Boorer, the co-founder of pioneering CDC Data Centres, who was helping Australian customers get into cloud computing and artificial intelligence when the Firmus boys were getting their first jobs.

Building a business such as CDC, which Boorer started in 2007, takes the sort of singular, long-term vision that entrepreneurs invariably need to succeed – and handle the pressure of putting your house on the line to fund your business.

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