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QXO

Disciplines:
technology
entrepreneurship
logistics/building products distribution

Summary

Brad Jacobs's technology-enabled building products distribution company — his sixth company — applying the same formula of finding a fragmented industry (building products distribution) and using technology and capital to consolidate it.

Core Contribution

Represents the latest application of Brad Jacobs's serial company building formula to a new fragmented industry — demonstrating that the same systematic approach can be reapplied across industries.

Historical Influences

Brad Jacobs

Intellectual Lineage

Brad Jacobs Serial EntrepreneurshipBuilding Products DistributionTechnology-Enabled Industrial Services

Contemporaries & Peers

United Rentals XPO Logistics

Minds Influenced

Building products distribution market

Intellectual Posterity

QXO

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