Brad Jacobs
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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The report card for a business is you take money from other people in the form of equity, the debt you pay back, but the equity is dear and people invest equity into the business.
And now you have to give them back that money when they sell their shares.
but much, much more money than they gave you.
So in my companies, we've been fortunate that we've been able to give back 32 times the money you won.
In other companies, over 150 times.
So really, really large, large, large returns, like over the top, unusually high returns.
That wasn't by luck.
That wasn't coincidental.
If it was coincidental, it wouldn't happen five times in a row in large amounts.
That was because there was a playbook.
That was because there was a method to it.
And that method incorporates many, many different elements.
And I talk about quite a bunch of them in the book that together.
give you an ability to create what we call alpha in the business world, which is not just beta, which is the market's going up, so you're going together with the market, but alpha, which exceeds the beta, exceeds the overall uplift that pretty much all boats are lifting by the same tide.
And part of the ingredients to that formula to make huge, huge returns for shareholders involve analytical thought, careful analysis of numbers, there's all the math,
making order out of disorder, trying to see how does this all fit together, and seeing the relationships between different things, how to reduce things to simplicity, because the great mathematicians reduce very complicated things to a formula, for example, expressed with just a few hand strokes.
So that's math.
That's mathematics.
That's the beauty of mathematics is seeing the patterns, seeing how to make sense out of this.
And on the music side, it's being able to improvise because my training was originally classical, but then I had the fortune to study with African-American musicians in Bennington College, Milford Graves, Bill Dixon, and
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