Brad Jacobs, a career CEO and founder of Jacobs Private Equity, shares his expertise on leadership and management. He discusses his successful roll-up strategy that created seven multibillion-dollar companies and the importance of measurable goals. Brad delves into effective delegation, crafting engaging 'electric meetings,' and leveraging M&A opportunities. He also reflects on the intersection of meditation and entrepreneurship, highlighting its role in enhancing creativity and decision-making. His insights offer a valuable playbook for aspiring leaders.
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Brad Jacobs' Career
Brad Jacobs built billion-dollar companies in waste management, equipment rental, and logistics.
These companies generated exceptional returns for investors, significantly outperforming the S&P 500.
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Efficient Due Diligence
Focus diligence on essential factors and avoid unnecessary details or reports.
Prioritize interviewing key executives to understand their perspectives and potential risks.
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Acquisition Integration
Prioritize identifying and retaining top talent during acquisitions.
Understand the existing company culture and systems by asking employees about successes and failures.
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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.
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Brad Jacobs is a career CEO and the founder of Jacobs Private Equity (his family office). Brad created and grew three platforms using a roll-up strategy that resulted in seven multibillion-dollar publicly traded companies. He and his teams have raised $30 billion of capital, completed 500 acquisitions, created hundreds of thousands of jobs, and generated annual returns to shareholders in excess of 50%. Brad shares his playbook in his aptly named book, How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. In December, he announced a billion-dollar PIPE into a new platform opportunity, of which $900 million is his personal capital. Our conversation is a master class in all aspects of leadership and management, including identifying an opportunity, acquiring businesses, assessing people, managing talent, running operations, leading electric meetings, motivating and compensating team members, and embarking on his next platform investment.
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