Why Most Founders Burn Out Before the Business Works (And How to Build One Worth Buying)
Tue Jan 27 2026
Most founders don’t fail because their idea is bad.They fail because the business outgrows the systems and the founder burns out before clarity arrives.
In this episode of Build a Business Worth Buying, Aaron Alpeter sits down with Jaz Fenton and Jamil Bhuya, founders behind multiple ventures across restaurants, ecommerce, and digital services, to talk candidly about:
• The hidden costs of “growth at all costs”• Why profit, not hype, is the real right to exist• What building Shopify taught them about iteration at scale• When optimism helps and when it becomes dangerous• How to design a business that gives you options instead of traps
This is a grounded conversation about systems, self-awareness, and why the best businesses feel intentional, not heroic.
🎧 Listen if you’re building, scaling, or questioning whether the business you’re growing is actually the one you want to live with.
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Most founders don’t fail because their idea is bad.They fail because the business outgrows the systems and the founder burns out before clarity arrives. In this episode of Build a Business Worth Buying, Aaron Alpeter sits down with Jaz Fenton and Jamil Bhuya, founders behind multiple ventures across restaurants, ecommerce, and digital services, to talk candidly about: • The hidden costs of “growth at all costs”• Why profit, not hype, is the real right to exist• What building Shopify taught them about iteration at scale• When optimism helps and when it becomes dangerous• How to design a business that gives you options instead of traps This is a grounded conversation about systems, self-awareness, and why the best businesses feel intentional, not heroic. 🎧 Listen if you’re building, scaling, or questioning whether the business you’re growing is actually the one you want to live with.