Brad Jacobs
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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In that you could hide inefficiencies.
as opposed to when it's a clean organization chart, everyone's got clear KPIs, key performance indicators, everyone has clear metrics, everyone has clear goals, and the compensation is tied to that.
and people are rewarded for achieving those goals.
I have a Zen Buddhist approach to debt.
Not too much, not too little.
I don't think it's an optimal balance sheet if you have no debt.
because you can improve the returns by shrinking your share count because you have fewer shares.
So the same amount of returns is greater per share to have fewer returns.
So I think it's good to have a little bit of leverage.
I don't think you should have a lot of leverage, particularly in today's world.
I don't think you should have a lot of leverage because there's significant geopolitical risk.
There's geopolitical risk in the Middle East, in Ukraine, in Taiwan.
The United States politics is very volatile.
There's a lot of things that could go wrong real quick.
And a kind of shock to the system would hurt companies that have too much debt because business would slow down.
Look what happened during COVID.
If you were very highly levered during COVID, if you had way too much debt,
and then everything slowed down and your revenues went down, you might not have been able to make your interest payments or your debt repayment payments and could have gone bankrupt.
Companies don't go bankrupt unless they have too much debt.
You go bankrupt from not being able to repay your debt.
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