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How to Make a Few Billion Dollars

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Obscene Profits

  • In 1979, Brad Jacobs was inspired to enter the oil business after a news report on Exxon's billion-dollar profits, described as "obscene profits."
  • Years later, he saw the same phrase associated with the waste management industry, which led him to found United Waste Systems.
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