Brad Jacobs: How To Build a Billion Dollar Company

So I looked at that org chart and said, this is a messed up org chart, which is great for making money. If you can find something that's messed up, And Easy to unmess up. Oh yeah, there's your money. There's your opportunity to make a lot of money. You've made a few billion dollars. What lessons have you learned about money and spending money and living with money that you wish you knew sooner? Yeah, especially you throw me off a little bit with the question because When you look at the the numbers, the real growth has been through MA, through acquisitions. What's been my secrets on acquisitions? Here's the gist. A lot of people have a rigid

business plan that's spelled out for many years and that's it and it's very that doesn't usually work. Why? Because life changes. Markets change. Economies change. And if you're rigid, if you're just rigid thinking, you're gonna have things come your way to make money for shareholders and feel, well it's it's nice, it's great, but it's really not our thing. Well that's a bad way of thinking. You said you can get a lot of things wrong if you get the big trend right. What major trend are you most interested in right now? I'm most interested in. 'Cause it is the trend. It it is the number one trend.

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