Brad Jacobs
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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So I pay close, when I've studied all these different industries, I've studied historical,
Acquisition multiples.
And one of the reasons I like building products distribution is I believe that I'll be able to buy companies at lower multiples of their profit than I'll be able to raise capital at.
And that's going to be a big, that disagio, that spread, that difference, that delta is going to create value, boom, just right away, right from the first day.
Now, you asked about integration.
Integration is extremely important.
Anybody can buy a company.
It's not that hard.
You write, you send a wire, you sign a document.
It's a few dozen pages.
Lawyers have gone over it and you wire the money and you own it.
So that's not the hard part.
The hard part is after you've selected the right industry, after you've selected the right companies within that industry to buy, after you had disciplined so that you don't, so that you pay the right price for all those, then you have to integrate them.
I've never run companies that have like hundreds of different companies all running separately with different names and different systems and different back offices.
And there is some level of decentralization where you need to be closer to the customer.
But I have a very strong appetite for standardization, standardization of the ERP system that you close the books with.
So you close the books promptly right after the close of the month.
And then you can have standardized dashboards.
So all the managers have the same format of the numbers they're looking at, the KPIs, and they see them graphically.
Very easy to understand.
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