Brad Jacobs
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1,288 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Brad Jacobs’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I want to make them happy.
I want to make them a lot of money.
I like being happy.
I like feeling good about myself.
I like looking in a mirror and like who I'm seeing.
And how I define that is pleasing the people that I love.
And those are my investors, my co-investors,
my close friends and family and the people who have been good to me over the years and I give back to them.
M&A has been a big part of my business career, not in the first 10 years.
In the first 10 years from 1979 to 1989, I was in the oil business.
It was all organic.
We didn't do one single acquisition.
It was all just trading and brokering and building up a business organically.
But since 1989, I've been doing roughly about 500 acquisitions.
I've done a lot of M&A.
I love M&A.
I love M&A.
as a way to create value for shareholders.
Because I don't know of another way on a risk-adjusted basis, on a certainty level, that is more likely to create massive shareholder value than doing sensible M&A.
In order to understand how to create value, I have to understand how am I going to scale up the business?
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