Brad Jacobs

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

that we agree to buy a company, we're starting the integration process.

And the day we close the acquisition, we're in there and we're standardizing everything as much as we possibly can.

And we're communicating and communicating quite a bit.

A big part of the success for M&A

is forming the relationship with people and making sure we get off on the right foot and making sure that we don't lose the great talent and making sure we on the same time, we're identifying the weak players and gracefully and generously exiting them.

So there's a lot of different components to M&A,

I'm summarizing a lot of different facts.

Each one of those things, we could talk for an hour just on that block.

But those are the kinds of things that go through my mind in my approach to M&A.

Yes.

So you see some companies, when they're negotiated by a company, do this very lengthy and detailed and bureaucratic diligence process.

And they hire a firm and they write this big, huge memo that nobody ever reads.

And some wonk reads it, but nobody important reads it.

And it's basically just to cover their butt.

I'm not trying to cover butts.

I'm trying to make money for shareholders.

My goal is to make money for shareholders, period.

And so what I'm looking for in diligence is I want to know how they make money.

I want to know the history of this company.

I want to know the current state of this company.

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