Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2023-11-14
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Brad Jacobs: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #352
Brad Jacobs - Think Big and Move Fast - [Invest Like the Best, EP.352]
My guest today is Brad Jacobs. Brad’s resumé is remarkable.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy discussed How to Make a Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs and The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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How to Make a Few Billion Dollars
Discussed“When I was reading the tech chronology in your book, it gave me flashbacks to reading Ray Kurzweil's work back in my twenties or something. The singularity is near.”
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The Singularity Is Near
Discussed“It gave me flashbacks to reading Ray Kurzweil's work back in my twenties or something. The singularity is near. What do you think of that notion?”
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Other mentions in this episode (9) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“He's also written a book that will be out in January titled, How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. What a title.”
“But I'm going to add a third to that as I write in the book, thank you for reading it, which is when people sell a business.”
“And I write in the book about a friend of mine who's done a lot of M&A once showed me a four quadrant chart of M&A.”
“And I often find, and I write about this in the book, that I often find that employees at all levels, whether they're frontline, middle management, senior management, have never been asked, what's your best idea to improve the company?”
“The biggest trend of them all is technology. So in the book, I have a two million year synopsis. I think it's a really interesting chronology of technology and inventions starting from over two million years ago”
“And I said, I don't want to waste the reader's time, do some boring thing. I tried not to put anything silly in the book. I tried to be snappy. I tried to make it substantive”
“And that teacher bringing out a lively conversation. For me, that was a learning of an electric experience, how to run an electric meeting, which fast forward to today is the title of one of the chapters of my book is how to run an electric meeting.”
“The book is called How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. It's a little bit of a misnomer because it's not just about how to make money. It is. It's designed particularly with aspiring CEOs in mind”
“I have some things that are proprietary and idiosyncratic to how I've built these beautiful businesses that I put in the book. One thing I learned from writing this book is I have a few dozen, maybe a hundred unique ideas”