Brad Jacobs
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Mario Harik had an advanced degree at MIT in machine learning and AI.
And I loved him the first second I met him.
And I said, okay, I'm going to hire this guy because he
Like me, he talks fast and thinks fast.
And we were just completely got what my vision was of automating brokerage.
My original hypothesis for brokerage back in 2011 was this is going to get automated eventually.
You're not going to have people in rooms talking on phones.
You're going to have computers talking to computers.
And we got to get ahead of the curve on that.
He understood that immediately.
And I hired him very quickly.
And he was my CIO for a number of years.
And then he became chief customer officer.
Did a great job there.
And then he ran LTL.
And today he's CEO of the whole company.
And he's doing a fantastic job.
This morning, the stock was up 12%.
They announced earnings and they did a great job.
It's a good quarter.