Brad Jacobs
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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Well, that's a bad way of thinking.
I'll share with you one of the best business deals I did in my life was I bought in 2015 a less than truckload trucking company called Conway.
It was based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
It was a few billion dollar deal.
It was a pivot because this was a hard asset business.
It had tens of thousands of trucks and drivers.
It was as asset heavy businesses as you're going to get with fixed costs and depreciation and amortization.
It was not an asset light brokerage business, which is how I started XPO as an asset light, non-asset based business.
But here was an opportunity.
to buy something really, really cheaply at a small fraction of what it was worth and even a smaller, tiny fraction of what I knew we could make it be worth within a few short years.
This is a company that had a lot of excess overhead.
The organization chart was not mathematical, going back to symmetry and formula, things that relationship makes sense.
I like to take, I love org charts.
I just love to geek out on org charts.
An org chart should be pretty.
org charts should be simple.
They should be elegant.
They should be geometrical.
They should not be really complicated.
Like you took some spaghetti and threw it like an abstract art on a canvas.
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