Booming and Broke: The Owner Who Swore He Wasn't For Sale

Weeks Weekly with Ed Weeks Jr. · Jun 2, 2026 · 9m

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He runs a company most people would kill to own. Booming. Biggest contracts of his career. Over 150 people on the payroll. And the first thing he told me was, "I'm not for sale."

Then he spent twenty minutes explaining why he might have to be.

This week I break down a real call with a thirty-year operator getting strangled by his own success. His biggest customers stretched payment terms from 30 days to 90, so now he's funding every job out of his own…