I bet you always wanted to know how to make a few billion.

Well, I wanted to know too, so I read the book, How to Make a Few Billion

by Brad Jacobs, and I had questions.

So he came on the podcast.

I asked my questions, and I had stuff related to making billions of dollars,

but also completely nothing to do with making billions of dollars,

although maybe it does have something to do with making billions of dollars.

You'll be able to tell.

Here's Brad Jacobs to talk about how to make a few billion dollars. This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Alt is your show. I'll just your show.

I'm not a big fed macro expert at all. I'm a business expert. I'm a micro

expert. I'm an expert on building businesses and making money doing that.

Do you think though your experience in business and your history of business? I mean you've been building these billion dollar businesses since the late 70s

Your perspective is valuable, maybe even more valuable than let let's say, an economist who considers themselves an expert.

I don't know if it's more valuable, but it's a different perspective because you're in the real world

and you're dealing with customers all day long and you're dealing with employees all day long so you're seeing inflation and you're seeing unemployment and you're seeing what the job market is.

You do have your finger right on the pulse.

And also I think you're more aware that things can go wrong.

Yeah, because if you're doing your job right as a CEO, you're always thinking about what could go wrong.

I mean, I'm skipping ahead a few companies,

but in the 90s you had an equipment rental company,

United Rentals, and there was all this infrastructure funding

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