#373 Breakfast with Brad Jacobs + How To Make A Few Billion Dollars

One of the most important things I learned from Brad's book, and we spoke about this When I had breakfast with bread as well. was the importance of working with the smartest and most talented people that you can. Brad says that the most important thing that a CO does is recruit superlative people. Then Brad will recruit.

The smartest people he can find. He actually talks about this. Brad says there's no substitute for smarts. And that reminded me That Steve gave in the late nineteen nineties. And this is what Steve said.

I think that I've consistently figured out who the really smart people were to hang around with. You must find extraordinary people. The key observation is that in most things in life, the dynamic range between the average quality and the best quality is at most Two to one. But in the field that I was interested in

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