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How Roger Federer Works.
- ▶ 22:05 David Senra I think about one of my favorite quotes comes from Brad Jacobs. 2 times in the scene
Tortured Into Greatness: The Life of Andre Agassi
- ▶ 23:22 David Senra Brad Jacobs has this great line in the book that he wrote, which is called how to make a few billion dollars.
- ▶ 58:03 David Senra And again, I think this goes back to that, that quote by Brad Jacobs, like so much of success is keeping your head in a good place.
How To Make A Few MORE Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra Two years ago, Brad Jacobs wrote a book called how to make a few billion dollars. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:03 David Senra I've spent a bunch of time with Brad. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:38 David Senra I've seen Brad Jacobs up close. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:02 David Senra So let's jump into the chapter where Brad outlines all the different ways that he's raised money. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:03 David Senra He says most acquisitions do not create shareholder value. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:23 David Senra And so Brad says the first question to answer in organizational design is how is this business we're acquiring going to create value? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:27 David Senra I want to touch on the two chapters that are about getting your mind right, or how Brad gets his mind right.
- ▶ 29:34 David Senra So the first two chapters of this book are the tools that Brad uses to keep his head in a good place. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:14 David Senra And one thing that Brad does is really good at zooming out and trying to put everything into its proper context. 4 times in the scene
Dinner With Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 3:07 David Senra I've done one with Charlie Munger and Sam Zell and Brad Jacobs and John Mackey.
- ▶ 25:50 David Senra Brad Jacobs. 3 times in the scene
The Last Oil Baron: Leon Hess
- ▶ 44:30 David Senra There's a great line in the book, how to make a few billion dollars by Brad Jacobs that I covered all the way up on episode three 35, uh, about this. 2 times in the scene
How Jensen Thinks
- ▶ 21:36 David Senra I was thinking about this with Brad Jacobs. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:09:00 David Senra Um, Brad Jacobson, his book, how to make a few billion dollars talks about the fact that, you know, between all of his companies, it's like a 140,000 employees or something. 2 times in the scene
Rare Jeff Bezos Interview
- ▶ 24:48 David Senra And then last week, when I was rereading my highlights from Brad Jacobs' book, How to Make a Few Billion Dollars, he, he, he talks about this several times throughout the book. 3 times in the scene
Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra One of the most important things that I learned from Brad's book, and we spoke about this when I had breakfast with Brad as well, was the importance of working with the smartest and most talented people that you can. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:33 David Senra So I want to tell you what I learned when I had the opportunity to have a two hour breakfast with Brad Jacobs a few weeks ago. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:51 David Senra And I thought of this because when I got to Brad's house, I was actually surprised at what Brad was doing. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:39 David Senra I know a bunch of people that know Brad and they all say things like this. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:09 David Senra Brad says that the most important thing a CEO does is recruit superlative people. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:00 David Senra Brad spoke about one of his most important mentors at breakfast. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:57 David Senra And so Brad mentioned his mentor, Mr. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:38 David Senra From people that heard the podcast and then bought Brad's book. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:13 David Senra There is a Brad file and I'll explain that to you. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:18 David Senra And so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to replay the episode I made on Brad's book. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:38 David Senra He says, I've come to know a lot of extremely successful people in my life. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:31 David Senra I usually spend about half an hour a day meditating. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:06 David Senra And Brad's going to talk about his most important business mentor. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:58 David Senra He's got these great stories spread throughout the book, and, uh, uh, this is how to lose five hundred million dollars. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:38 David Senra So he, at the time he's running XPO, which is his third public company. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:20 David Senra That is from, that's a summary of Andrew Carnegie's ideas, which I think Brad, uh, based on this chapter would definitely agree with.
- ▶ 1:05:39 David Senra So he talks about Amrex and Hamilton resources, and it's about like his time in the oil industry. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:56 David Senra So this private equity firm buys it, uh, for seven billion dollars, or at least that's what Brad thought happened.
- ▶ 1:15:14 David Senra This is something that Brad's going to have in common with just the ones that come to the top of my mind. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:34 David Senra It's like, damn, this guy's moving fast. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:22:17 David Senra Uh, this was his answer, rather, and I'm gonna read it to you first because I think it sets up what, what Brad's trying to teach us right here. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:29:23 David Senra And then I want to close on what I feel is almost like a manifesto, that it's an incredible honor and a good thing for the world to build products and services that make other people's lives better, to create jobs for hundreds of thousands… 3 times in the scene
Mr Beast's Leaked Memo
- ▶ 38:19 David Senra And I actually found the, I searched through the transcript of this book by Brad Jacobs called how to make a few billion dollars. 4 times in the scene
Robert Kierlin: Founder of Fastenal
- ▶ 37:28 David Senra This reminded me of, uh, Brad Jacobs. 6 times in the scene
The Robber Baron's Art Dealer: Joseph Duveen
- ▶ 38:58 David Senra And so here's another example of this idea that you and I talked about a few weeks ago on episode three 35 on Brad Jacobs book, how to make a few billion dollars overpay for talent because it's nearly impossible to overpay for talent.
How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: The Life Story of Samuel Insull
- ▶ 1:23:54 David Senra So last, last week I talked about, you can go read all of the highlights from Brad Jacobs' book, and in Brad Jacobs, when I was reading about Brad Jacobs, I was really thinking a lot about Danny Meyer, and I hadn't read Danny Meyer's… 2 times in the scene
How To Make A Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs
- ▶ 2:44 David Senra There's a hilarious story later in the book about a lunch that Brad had with the CEO of his major competitor in that industry. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:09 David Senra Brad winds up making about four billion dollars, buying back a bunch of his stock, even though bankers and advisors around him were saying, hey, no one's ever done something like this before. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:02 David Senra Brad was kind enough to invite me to, uh, the book launch party they had in New York. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:20 David Senra And Brad's going to talk about his most important business mentor. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:38 David Senra Brad, what Brad did was put it at the front of the book, which is unusual. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:33 David Senra That is from, that's a summary of Andrew Carnegie's ideas, which I think Brad, uh, based on this chapter would definitely agree with. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:10 David Senra So this private equity firm buys it, uh, for seven billion dollars, or at least that's what Brad thought happened. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:11 David Senra And Brad has this great line here. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:37 David Senra And then I want to close on what I feel is almost like a manifesto that it's an incredible honor and a good thing for the world to build products and services that make other people's lives better, to create jobs for hundreds of thousands… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:11 David Senra It was fascinating in Brad's story how many times, if you just listen, uh, that 4 times in the scene