Brad Jacobs

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

main business mentor, rest in peace, Ludwig Jesselson used to say, you can mess up a lot of things, but if you get the main trend right, you're going to make a lot of money.

And conversely, if you don't get the main trend right, you're swimming upstream, you can do a lot of other things right, but you're not going to make a lot of money.

So I intentionally spend time thinking about where does all this fit in and where could it be going?

What's your research process like?

I like people and I like picking people's brains and I'm shameless about asking people their opinions.

And I like to be a student more than a teacher.

I find a lot of people make the mistake as they get older or they get more successful, they think they know everything and they start teaching all the time.

I'm sharing through the book I wrote and through podcasts like this and so forth, the few little things that I think I have insights that I can give back to.

But I absolutely view myself as a student of life.

I don't view myself as a guru who's figured it all out by a long shot.

And I think if you keep that element of profound curiosity, of really interesting and being very interested to learn and

Being involved with the sensory experience, be involved in the intellectual experience, be involved in analytical capabilities.

I think you can learn a lot more and you can see trends that otherwise you don't see it.

You're just in it and you're living it, but you're not seeing the trend.

You're just kind of going along.

I do have a team that researches things for me.

But I also, I like to roll up my sleeves and get into it myself.

I like to find, even like when I do M&A,

So my teams that I've led have done about 500 acquisitions.

I've been involved in those acquisitions.

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