The Weight of Building
Why Growth Reveals More Than SuccessBy Alexander Martin & Sofia ValeRecorded TrackLength5h 48m
About this audiobook
You built the business. Now the business is testing you.
A husband and wife joined the owner of a struggling electrical company doing $164,000 in revenue. In two years, they helped it grow to about $1 million. Then they walked away with nothing.
Not because the business failed — because their partnership with its founder did. They did sign an operating agreement — a year late. When they needed it most, it did not hold.
The Weight of Building is the story of the people who carried the weight — what growth cost them, and the conversations that protect a partnership before success tests it. Inside: eight questions to settle while everyone still agrees — including who can spend without asking, who can take money out, and who decides when you disagree. And six practical tools to put the answers to work — one finds the week the cash is missing.
If you own a business with someone — a partner, a spouse, a friend — this book is about the weight you are already carrying.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics
Length5 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 2, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1
2Foreword
3Introduction
4Chapter 1: Order Before Expansion
5Chapter 2: Money Reveals the Truth
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6Chapter 3: How Trust Compounds
7Interlude: Before You Build With Someone
8Chapter 4: The Culture Beneath Growth
9Chapter 5: The Discipline of Scale
10Chapter 6: What Growth Reveals
11Authors’ Note
12Practical Companion
13About the Authors
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