Brad Jacobs
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1,288 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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I only know how to create tremendous shareholder value by growing a business tremendously.
That's how I know how to do it.
And of course it's organic.
And I've had very good organic growth.
The companies I've led have been well-performing companies that have had good market share and growing market share.
And we've taken customers away.
We've taken business away from our competitors who aren't managed as well.
But when you look at the numbers, the real growth has been through M&A, through acquisitions.
What's been my secrets on acquisitions?
I'll try to be concise because I did a...
hour and a half podcast with McKinsey a couple of years ago with Andy West.
That was the only question.
He asked one question and I babbled on for an hour and a half.
It's still a big, people still watch that podcast because I really told everything about it.
Here's the gist.
The gist is you first have to select an industry.
You can't just do M&A.
So I spent the last year
going around studying dozens of industries, looking at hundreds and hundreds of acquisition opportunities, mostly with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and some other, Sequoia and some friends, figuring out, could I apply my playbook to this industry?
Is the industry big enough?
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