Brad Jacobs

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

So I get into the details of what are we buying?

And to buy those 500 companies, we looked at thousands and thousands of other companies that we didn't buy.

And I love the process.

I love studying each company, figuring out how they get to the point where now there are millions or hundreds of millions or billions of dollars of revenue and they started from scratch.

And how do they do that?

It's like a miracle.

It's fantastic.

I'm very impressed and excited and enamored with entrepreneurs and companies that have

created huge growth and huge value.

And I want to understand that.

So I want to get into the detail of it.

I want to pick their brains.

I see a big value in asking lots of questions to people.

Now today, you're the one asking questions and I'm answering, but normally it's a role reversal.

Normally I'm asking a lot of questions.

If you go into a management meeting, I'm usually asking lots of questions.

I take questioning from the therapist.

So I wrote in the book that the only time in my life that I've been depressed, but I was really depressed, was in the mid-2000s when I had stepped down from being CEO of this big company, United Rentals, and now I didn't have anything to do.

I was doing some art.

I was studying art and buying art, and I was doing things with my family and so forth, but I didn't have a business.

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