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How to Make a Few Billion Dollars
Book • 2024
In *How to Make a Few Billion Dollars*, Brad Jacobs shares his mindset and strategies that have driven his remarkable success in corporate America.
With over four decades of experience as a CEO and serial entrepreneur, Jacobs distills his business brilliance into a tactical road map.
The book covers topics such as rearranging your mindset to achieve enormous goals, turning a healthy fear of failure to your advantage, achieving high-quality M&A without imploding, building an outrageously talented team, catalyzing electric meetings, and transforming a company into a superorganism that outcompetes others.
Jacobs emphasizes the importance of humility, compassion, and accountability while pursuing the American Dream.
With over four decades of experience as a CEO and serial entrepreneur, Jacobs distills his business brilliance into a tactical road map.
The book covers topics such as rearranging your mindset to achieve enormous goals, turning a healthy fear of failure to your advantage, achieving high-quality M&A without imploding, building an outrageously talented team, catalyzing electric meetings, and transforming a company into a superorganism that outcompetes others.
Jacobs emphasizes the importance of humility, compassion, and accountability while pursuing the American Dream.
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in relation to his philosophy on overpaying for top talent.


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as one of his favorite books of the year, detailing Brad Jacobs' entrepreneurial journey and insights.


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as a playbook for creating outsized value.


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as being written by Brad Jacobs, detailing how to build billion-dollar companies through research.


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in relation to the concept of deliberately understaffed teams.


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, highlighting Jacobs' book on building a successful business and soliciting employee feedback.


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, detailing his strategies for M&A and building billion-dollar businesses.


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as a book written by Brad Jacobs, detailing his entrepreneurial journey and insights.


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in the context of problem-solving and opportunity in business.


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in relation to paying for talent.


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to detail his business strategies and experiences.

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as an autobiography detailing his journey building billion-dollar companies.

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#69 David Marcus on How to Make a Few Billion Dollars
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as the book containing his playbook for creating companies.

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as an insightful read on building multi-billion dollar companies.

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, it's title caught his attention and he shared a quote from it.

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as a source of lessons on handling short sellers and making capital allocation decisions.


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