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How to Make a Few Billion Dollars Hardcover – January 15, 2024

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Do you have a burning passion to make a lot of money in business? Are you ready to turbocharge your chances of professional and personal success?

During his more than four decades as a CEO and serial entrepreneur, Brad Jacobs has created seven flagship companies across different industries, delivering tens of billions of dollars of value to shareholders. In How to Make a Few Billion Dollars, Jacobs defines the mindset that drives his remarkable success in corporate America―and distills a lifetime of business brilliance into a tactical road map.

From provocative recommendations for “rearranging your brain”―an essential prerequisite to accomplishing enormous goals―to practical advice for dealing with colleagues, Jacobs will have you rethinking what it means to win big. He explains why it’s critical to spot key trends and capitalize on them, including the biggest trend of all―the rapid evolution of technology relative to human development. And, he shares his techniques for

• turning a healthy fear of failure to your advantage,
• achieving lots of high-quality M&A without imploding,
• building an outrageously talented team,
• catalyzing electric meetings, and
• transforming a company into a superorganism that kills the competition.

How to Make a Few Billion Dollars is an inside look at how this entrepreneurial titan leads with humility, compassion, and accountability, while running hard toward the American Dream. If your personal dream is to create wealth through free markets or to triumph in sports, the arts, politics, philanthropy, or any other part of your life, this book will help you make that a reality.

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During more than four decades as a CEO and serial entrepreneur, Brad Jacobs has created flagship companies across multiple industries, delivering tens of billions of dollars of value to shareholders.

Jacobs has founded seven companies―all billion-dollar or multibillion-dollar corporations―completed approximately 500 M&A transactions, and raised $30 billion of debt and equity capital through private and public offerings, including three IPOs. He began his career at age 23 when he founded Amerex Oil Associates, followed by Hamilton Resources, both privately held. He subsequently created five publicly traded companies―United Waste Systems, United Rentals, XPO, and XPO’s two spin-offs, GXO Logistics and RXO.

Jacobs has shown a Midas touch with value creation. He grew XPO into a top ten global logistics provider and the seventh best-performing stock of the last decade in the Fortune 500. XPO stock became a "32-bagger"―initial investors in 2011 have made more than 32 times their money. United Rentals was the sixth best-performing Fortune 500 stock during the same period and is now more than a “100-bagger.” United Waste’s stock outperformed the S&P 500 by 5.6 times over five years, from the time Jacobs took the company public to when he sold it for 2.5 billion dollars.

Jacobs is chairman of the board of directors of XPO, GXO Logistics, and RXO.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CHTQP25T
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Greenleaf Book Group Press (January 15, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8886451740
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.26 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.2 x 9.1 inches
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During more than four decades as a CEO and serial entrepreneur, Brad Jacobs has created flagship companies across multiple industries, delivering tens of billions of dollars of value to shareholders.

To date, Jacobs has founded seven billion-dollar or multibillion-dollar businesses, completed approximately 500 M&A transactions, and raised 30 billion dollars of debt and equity capital, including three IPOs. He began his career at age 23 when he founded Amerex Oil Associates, followed by Hamilton Resources, both privately held. He subsequently created five publicly traded companies—United Waste Systems, United Rentals, XPO, and XPO’s two spin-offs, GXO Logistics and RXO.

Jacobs has demonstrated a Midas touch with value creation. He grew XPO into a top ten global logistics provider and the seventh best-performing stock of the last decade in the Fortune 500. XPO’s stock became a "32-bagger"—initial investors in 2011 made more than 32 times their money. United Rentals was the sixth best-performing Fortune 500 stock during the same period and is now more than a “100-bagger.” United Waste’s stock outperformed the S&P 500 by 5.6 times over five years, from the time Jacobs took the company public to when he sold it for 2.5 billion dollars.

Jacobs is chairman of the board of directors of XPO, GXO and RXO, and incoming chairman and CEO of QXO, Inc.

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Quick, engaging read with a lot of practical, actionable insights
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Quick, engaging read with a lot of practical, actionable insights
I really like the conversational, friendly writing style. I feel like going forward, having read this book, I will interview job candidates, participate in meetings, and interact with colleagues differently and better than I did before. I particularly like the first chapter, which gives interesting tips on how to capitalize on thought and emotion. Added plus: I love the cover! Looks great on my bookshelf.
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Paul Sanchez
5.0 out of 5 stars On my way to make millions... sorry BILLIONS!
Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024
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Very informative and eye opening books. I'm a business book nerd and have read a lot of them. In "How to make a Few Billion Dollars, Brad Jacobs wrote it in a way where you can really consume the information while being a fun read overall. I don't know if you will make a billion dollars after reading but you will definitely be able to apply many of the philosophy's in this book to your current or future business. Highly recommend.
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Ice Cube
4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Lessons. Average Writing
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2024
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Brad is undoubtedly wise beyond compare and shares his wisdom freely. But the book is not fun to read, the writing could have been more engaging, and the sequencing of ideas seems half-baked.
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Fabricio Paulella
5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal Book!
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2024
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Practical insights for any level or size of entrepreneurs!
Brad Jacobs is a genius
You can read it easily in a week!
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LS
5.0 out of 5 stars Quick, engaging read with a lot of practical, actionable insights
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2024
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I really like the conversational, friendly writing style. I feel like going forward, having read this book, I will interview job candidates, participate in meetings, and interact with colleagues differently and better than I did before. I particularly like the first chapter, which gives interesting tips on how to capitalize on thought and emotion. Added plus: I love the cover! Looks great on my bookshelf.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Quick, engaging read with a lot of practical, actionable insights
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2024
I really like the conversational, friendly writing style. I feel like going forward, having read this book, I will interview job candidates, participate in meetings, and interact with colleagues differently and better than I did before. I particularly like the first chapter, which gives interesting tips on how to capitalize on thought and emotion. Added plus: I love the cover! Looks great on my bookshelf.
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Mak
3.0 out of 5 stars Some good points!
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2024
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Ofc the writer is a good businessman but the book is not as good. But it sure does have some good points. The writing style is simple and easy to understand but it isn't that much engaging. There are some genuine guidelines that are worth it. So yeah good insights, would recommend!
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PAM
5.0 out of 5 stars An inspiring and great read
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2024
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Brad’s approach to leadership stands out distinctly from the numerous leadership books I have read over the years. What sets this book apart is its foundation in real-world experience. A quick and great read.
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Justin V.
4.0 out of 5 stars My opinion
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024
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It was interesting to hear from a man that created, rolled up, and sold multiple billion dollar companies. Was not much of the thought process how he picks an industry, how he processes information on an industry. Just how he hires, and runs businesses, or delegates business.
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David Bishop
5.0 out of 5 stars This guy's cool
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2024
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Thoughtful, intelligent and likable down to earth businessman. Very accessible message explaining how he amazingly started and took several companies public.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring and simply written.
Reviewed in Canada on February 3, 2024
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A quick read packed with tons of wisdom. Brad writes simply despite taking multiple companies to multi-billion dollar valuations. From how to build exceptional teams, run exceptional meetings, and most importantly, valuing your time and the pursuit of big goals.
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Dr Ulrich Geilinger
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for medium-sized business owners and acquirers
Reviewed in Germany on April 29, 2024
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In my view the title of the book is way too flashy and misleading. The content of the book is less about "how to make a few billion", but about how buy and manage companies, motivate employees etc.

Brad Jacobs is a great entrepreneur, leader and buyer of business, consolidating industries. If you follow his many insights and advice, the chances that you make at least "a few million" from buying small companies are better.

Even if you are not in the business of buying companies, the book is full of really great and easy to implement insights and tips. Highly recommended for entrepreneurs, business owners and managers.
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Dr. SBT.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great ideas
Reviewed in India on March 29, 2024
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This is a fabulous book where the author has shared his practical insights about how to create impactful organisations that serve the stakeholders in the best possible way & generate phenomenal returns as an outcome.
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Andrew Mullaney
5.0 out of 5 stars Positive and informative
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 29, 2024
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Brady really has a special view of life and entrepreneurship. Very incite full and enjoyable, a must read for anyone in business.
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Reviewed in Singapore on April 27, 2024
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