Brad Jacobs
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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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, booyah, there's your money.
You know, essentially, you throw me off a little bit with the question because...
When you look at the numbers, the real growth has been through M&A, through acquisitions.
What's been my secrets on acquisitions?
Here's the gist.
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 work.
Why?
Because life changes, markets change, economies change.
And if you're rigid, if you're just rigid thinking, you're going to have things come your way to make money for shareholders and feel, well, it's nice, it's great, but it's really not our thing.
That's a bad way of thinking.
I did recently meet him and it was like meeting Albert Einstein or meeting someone on Michelangelo.
Because when you look at his context, his wide context, he's looking at the history of the universe going back 13 point something billion years and how we got here.
And then looking at those trends and where are we going?
He identifies the most important trend of all, which is
Homo sapiens have created technology, created tools, starting with stone pebbles and over a couple of million years ago, and then fire and then settlements.
And over the last couple of hundred years, so much, so much more, so much more in the last 20 years, accelerating, accelerating.
And now with AI, it's accelerating even more.
And where's that going?
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