American serial entrepreneur who has built six billion-dollar companies — including United Rentals and XPO Logistics — through a systematic approach: identify a fragmented industry, raise large capital, make acquisitions, implement rigorous systems, and repeat.
Demonstrated the most replicable formula for building very large businesses: find a fragmented industry with no dominant player, acquire the best operators, apply rigorous management systems, and use the scale advantage to acquire more — doing this six times across different industries.
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