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Everyone shows you the win. Nobody shows you the bill.

Greg Ciupek writes true stories about building companies, losing certainty and continuing when the numbers stop making sense. His first book is published in English, Polish and Spanish.

Greg Ciupek The Weight of Winning book cover
14first business, selling watermelons
11market stalls managed at seventeen
$53Kto return in seven days
3published language editions

The story behind the result

Winning has a weight.

Business stories usually begin after the danger has passed. The numbers are clean. The lesson is packaged. The ending is known.

Greg starts earlier: inside the week before Christmas when there were seven days to return $53,000 and roughly $1,000 in the account. Then he goes back to show how ambition, loyalty, risk and pressure built the road to that room.

Not a victory lap. A record of the invoice.

Age 14

The first trade

Watermelons, customers and the first proof that initiative could create momentum.

Age 17

Eleven stalls

People on the payroll, responsibility growing faster than the young founder carrying it.

December 2018

Seven days

The deadline that opens the book—and exposes what growth can cost behind closed doors.

The Weight of Winning by Greg Ciupek

Book one · Published now

The Weight of Winning

A founder's true story about the hidden cost of keeping a company alive: money, loyalty, pressure, and the decisions that stay with you after the crisis ends.

“The part nobody photographs is the bill that arrives after the win.”

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Each button goes directly to the correct publication. English and Spanish print and e-book editions, plus the Polish print edition, are sold exclusively by Amazon.

English editionEnglish cover of The Weight of Winning

The Weight of Winning

Available as paperback and Kindle e-book on Amazon.

Polskie wydaniePolska okładka książki Ciężar Zwycięstwa

Ciężar Zwycięstwa

Książka drukowana dostępna wyłącznie na Amazon.pl.

Polski e-book · w przygotowaniu w sprzedaży bezpośredniej
Edición en españolPortada en español de El Peso de Ganar

El Peso de Ganar

Disponible en tapa blanda y e-book Kindle en Amazon.

Greg Ciupek, entrepreneur and author

About Greg

Built in public. Learned in private.

Greg Ciupek is an entrepreneur, author and builder. He writes from experience rather than theory—about starting young, carrying payroll, working with partners and investors, and rebuilding after the kind of pressure that does not fit inside a success post.

This site is the home of his books, business stories and the work still being built.

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See the win. Read the bill.

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