Brad Jacobs

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The Knowledge Project · The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

It was a sad time for the world.

It's a lot of chaos and problems, but it was really good to get in the oil business because the oil business was really volatile and

Some young whippersnappers like us could come in and be taken seriously by Exxon and Mobil and Texaco and Shell and Gulf and BP and all the customers that became our big customers over time.

We built that business up over four quick years to about a little under $5 billion in brokerage volume.

So that was a really big rapid growth curve and a good team doing that around the world.

And then I sold it and I wanted to start a new business and I wanted, and I was ambitious.

I was single.

I wasn't married.

I didn't have kids.

I could take risks.

I could afford to do that.

And I remember speaking with my, my uncle Howard and may he rest in peace.

He's long, long passed away.

And of course my uncle Howard was born in the,

1920s, maybe even late 19-teens, and grew up in the Depression, obviously, and during World War II and so forth, and it was very tough times.

So he grew up in a time when there's a lot of emphasis towards being very frugal and very risk averse.

He became an accountant and worked for the government.

And I remember talking to him and saying, yeah, I'm going to start another company.

Instead of being an oil broker,

I'm going to go to the adult table instead of the kiddie table.

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