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Brad Jacobs

14 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 12, 2024 by Brad Jacobs · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Feb 12, 2024
Insight
Jacobs: Building a multi-billion platform requires a hundred-billion-dollar industry
“If I'm going to create a company that's tens of billions of dollars in revenue, I need an industry that at a minimum is hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue.”
Brad Jacobs Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 18:58 Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
Feb 12, 2024
Insight
Jacobs: Aligning with macro trends matters more than operational execution
“You can mess up a lot of stuff, and if you have the main trend right, you can make money. And conversely, You can do a thousand things right, and if the big trend is smacking you in the face, it's not going to work.”
Brad Jacobs Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 23:22 Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
Feb 12, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Jacobs built five multi-billion dollar companies and raised $30 billion
“I've started five companies from scratch. I turned all of them into billion or multi-billion dollar enterprises. We did about 500 acquisitions along the way. We raised about thirty billion dollars or so of outside capital”
Brad Jacobs Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 12:23 Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
Feb 12, 2024
Disclosure
Jacobs: Quarterly 3-question employee surveys consistently achieve 80% engagement
“We send out a succinct questionnaire to every employee in the company every three months that says just a few questions. Number one, rate your level of job satisfaction on a scale of one to 10. Question number two, what would it take to make it a 10? Question …”
Brad Jacobs Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 43:58 Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
Feb 12, 2024 positive
Insight
Jacobs executes large acquisitions in pairs to avoid multiple organizational restructurings
“I typically do large deals in pairs. Not always. I'd like to do two large deals near each other and then stop and digest and integrate. The reason I do that is I don't want to have to do two organizational charts.”
Brad Jacobs Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 28:39 Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
Feb 12, 2024 bullish
Disclosure
Jacobs is personally investing $900 million into his new distribution roll-up
“Our initial investment is a billion dollars, not a few billion dollars like the book, but a billion dollars, and nine hundred million dollars of that is coming from me, and a hundred million dollars of that is coming from Sequoia Heritage, and from friends and…”
Brad Jacobs Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 1:12:15 Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
Feb 12, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
One executive earned over $100 million under Jacobs's compensation structure
“I've had people make tens of millions of dollars. See the senior executives. I've had one person make over a hundred million dollars.”
Brad Jacobs Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 1:03:03 Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
Feb 12, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jacobs banned his Chief Customer Officer from operating reviews for a year
“I actually banned our chief customer officer from operating reviews for a year because he couldn't abide by the rules. He violated the rule of talking while someone else was talking.”
Brad Jacobs Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 55:25 Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
Feb 12, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Jacobs: Companies ban PowerPoints in favor of interactive discussions
“We don't do PowerPoints at meetings as a general rule. We do discussions at meetings, interactive, lively discussions.”
Brad Jacobs Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 47:52 Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
Feb 12, 2024 negative
Disclosure
Seventeen sovereign funds rejected Jacobs's oil roll-up over ESG mandates
“I was thinking about returning to my roots of energy. Spent a lot of time in Houston, a little time in New Orleans, et cetera. And talked to a lot of oil folks, love the business, and couldn't raise money for it. I talked to the 17 or so sovereign wealth funds…”
Brad Jacobs Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 24:40 Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
Feb 12, 2024 negative
Opinion
Multi-million dollar M&A consultant reports just provide management plausible deniability
“Sometimes you see people hire a consultant. They pay them literally four or five million dollars. They put this big, big report. What is the purpose of that report? The report is for the manager team who's buying it to cover their butt. That's how in case the …”
Brad Jacobs Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 26:21 Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
Feb 12, 2024
Insight
Jacobs: Moving slowly on tech integration is riskier than ruffling feathers immediately
“I actually find that with technology integration, going slowly is more risk than ruffling some feathers and doing it right away.”
Brad Jacobs Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 32:02 Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
Feb 12, 2024 positive
Insight
Jacobs: Interviewing top target executives provides 90% of acquisition diligence
“I want to spend an hour, hour and a half with each one of the management team members And I just want to have an honest conversation with them. Just a very basic, candid discussion of, so if this was your money, would you do this deal? Am I doing something int…”
Brad Jacobs Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 26:54 Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
Feb 12, 2024
Disclosure
Jacobs: A 2x to 3x return over ten years is a very bad outcome
“For me, if I'm going to spend five or 10 years putting all my life into something seven days a week and really in it, I want to win it. That would be a very bad, bad outcome if we only made two or three X after that period of time.”
Brad Jacobs Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 21:54 Brad Jacobs – Masterclass on Leadership and Management (EP.368)
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