“WisdomTree has been here for a full year now and they have tried to very unsuccessfully build a sales and distribution team -- and that I see is the single largest aspect that anyone coming into the Canadian ETF landscape needs to understand,” says Steve Hawkins, president and co-chief executive officer of WisdomTree competitor Horizons ETFs Management (Canada).

Can we have a translation please for '...tried to very unsuccessfully build...'?

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