Brad Jacobs: How To Build a Billion Dollar Company
The Knowledge Project
Shane Parrish
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 100 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So I looked at that org chart and said, this is a messed up org chart, which is great for making money. If you can find something that's messed up and easy to un-mess up, boo-ya, there's your money. There's your opportunity to make a lot of money. You've made a few billion dollars. What lessons have you learned about money and spending money and living with money that you wish you knew sooner. |
| 0:21.6 | You know, essentially, you throw me off a little bit with the question. |
| 0:23.6 | When you look at the numbers, the real growth has been through M&A, through acquisitions. |
| 0:28.6 | What's been my secrets on acquisitions? |
| 0:30.6 | Here's the gist. |
| 0:31.6 | A lot of people have a rigid business plan that's spelled out for many years and that's it and it's very, it doesn't usually |
| 0:38.5 | work. Why? Because life changes, markets change, economies change. And if you're rigid, if you're just |
| 0:44.2 | rigid thinking, you're going to have things come your way to make money for shareholders and feel |
| 0:48.4 | well, it's nice, it's great, but it's really not our thing. That's a bad way of thinking. |
| 0:52.2 | You said you can get a lot of things wrong if you get the big trend right. |
| 0:56.0 | What major trend are you most interested in right now? |
| 1:00.3 | I'm most interested in. |
| 1:02.7 | Because it is the trend. |
| 1:04.6 | It is the number one trend. |
| 1:06.4 | It is the number one trend. |
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