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book2023

How to Make a Few Billion Dollars

Disciplines:
entrepreneurship
investing
finance/wealth creation
entrepreneurship/business building

Summary

Brad Jacobs's 2023 book on how he built multiple billion-dollar companies — XPO Logistics, United Rentals, Jacobs Private Equity — presenting a practical framework for identifying large market opportunities and building organizations rapidly.

Core Contribution

Provides a practitioner's account of building billion-dollar companies from scratch — the specific analytical framework for identifying large addressable markets, the talent acquisition principles, and the operating discipline that allowed Jacobs to repeat the process across multiple industries.

Historical Influences

Brad Jacobs

Intellectual Lineage

Brad Jacobs Business CareerBusiness Leadership Books

Allied Works

The Hard Thing About Hard Things No Rules Rules

Contemporaries & Peers

No Rules Rules The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Minds Influenced

Business building discourseFounders podcast content

Intellectual Posterity

How to Make a Few Billion Dollars

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