
Founders My Conversation with Brad Jacobs
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Oct 28, 2025 Brad Jacobs, a serial entrepreneur renowned for building billion-dollar businesses, shares his insights on identifying long-term trends and embracing challenges as opportunities for growth. He discusses the importance of maintaining a positive mindset and how overcoming perfectionism transformed his approach. Key topics include his acquisition strategies, the significance of recruiting top talent, and running effective meetings to foster collaboration. Jacobs also emphasizes the role of technology in gaining a competitive edge and the value of feedback from employees and customers.
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Prioritize Long-Term Trends
- Get the major trend right before committing significant resources to an industry.
- Assess past, present, and probable futures, then manage risk around the most likely scenarios.
Problems Are Value Signals
- Problems equal opportunities when you can solve them and create value.
- Embrace incoming challenges instead of getting emotionally beaten down by them.
Hire Smarter Than You
- Recruit the brightest specialists and make them partners with meaningful equity.
- Prefer A-plus players because their impact can be 50–100x greater than average performers.








