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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.”
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”
United Rentals went from inception to NYSE IPO in three months
“United Rentals, we started on Labor Day weekend, like my kitchen table down the street in 1997, and by the second week in December, we were publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange, and Dan Tully, who was the chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch at the time…”
Jacobs: XPO was seventh best performing Fortune 500 stock last decade
“So you look at XPO for my initial investors was a 32 bagger. It was the seventh best performing stock of the Fortune 500 of the last decade.”
Jacobs: United Rentals was sixth best performing Fortune 500 stock last decade
“United Rentals was pre-IPO when I started it was three dollars and 50 cents a share. And last I checked, it was 575 dollars a share. So it's been much more than a hundred bagger. And it was the sixth best performing stock of the Fortune 500 of the last decade.”
Jacobs: United Waste outperformed S&P 500 by 5.6x with 55% CAGR
“United Waste Systems outperformed the S&P 500 by 5.6 X. You would have made 5.6 times more money buying United Waste than you would have bought buying the S&P. We had a 55% CAGR on the profit and not coincidentally a approximately 55% CAGR on the stock price.”