Timeline
Fourteen To Now.
In Order.
An about page tells you what someone does. This one tells you how long they have been doing it, and what each part was for.
Cody Wise started designing at fourteen and started his first business at fifteen. He began building websites at eighteen, and spent his twenties across product design, software, agencies and short term rentals, producing more than thirty three million dollars for clients across a hundred and eleven founders. Today he runs C. Wise Enterprise Corp. from Calgary, which holds Wise Media and Wise STR Group, and co-hosts two of Calgary’s Top 1 percent Airbnb properties with his wife at a 4.97 star average.
The Order It Happened In
Five chapters. Each one is the reason the next one was possible.
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14Design
Started Designing
Before it was a job, before it was a business, and long before anyone was paying. The habit of opening the file and moving something until it looked right started here and never stopped.
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15Business
Started Entrepreneurship
A year after the design, which is the correct order and the reason the two have never been separate since. The work has always been sold by the person who makes it.
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18Build
Started Building Websites
Design became something that shipped. This is where the front end work starts, and it is still done by hand today for the same reason it was then: nothing between the idea and the browser.
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20sCompound
Product Design, Software, Agencies, Short Term Rentals
Four things that look unrelated and are not. Each one taught the constraint that made the next possible, and the overlap between them is the whole advantage. More than thirty three million dollars produced for clients across a hundred and eleven founders.
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NowOperate
C. Wise Enterprise Corp.
Wise Media as the product studio. Wise STR Group running Wise Property Management, CleanStays and Wise Property Services. Two of Calgary’s Top 1 percent Airbnb properties co-hosted with his wife at a 4.97 star average. Built in Calgary, and built the same way in Tulum and Dubai.
One chapter is missing on purpose. The barbering years sit between the teens and Wise Media, and they belong on this page. The details are not written down anywhere I can check, so rather than guess at them there is nothing here yet.
Common Questions
At fourteen, a year before he started his first business. Design came first and the two have not been separate since, which is why the offers, the front end and the advertising are all handled by the same person rather than briefed out.
He runs C. Wise Enterprise Corp. out of Calgary. Wise Media is the product studio building software and marketing sites. Wise STR Group is the property operation, running Wise Property Management, CleanStays and Wise Property Services. He also co-hosts two of Calgary’s Top 1 percent Airbnb properties with his wife at a 4.97 star average.
No. It is a permanent holding structure. The businesses inside it are built to hold and to compound rather than to package for an exit.
That Is The Shape.
The Detail Is In The Work.
The case studies are where the twenties actually landed, and the ventures page is what they turned into.