Jacobs believes public equity beats private equity for attracting top talent
Brad Jacobs · How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies · Oct 26, 2025 · at 1:19:18
Brad Jacobs explains why he favors public company structures over private entities for incentivizing employees and building high-growth enterprises.
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“If you're private, you give people these phantom shares or whatever the compensation plan is, they don't really know the value of it until they sell it someday, and it may be very different than what they thought it was all along. So from a compensation point of view, which is a big element of success in these high growth business plans, being public is fantastic.”
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