Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2024-11-22
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Brad Jacobs: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best (Nov 2024)
Brad Jacobs - Think Big and Move Fast - [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]
Today, we are replaying my conversation with Brad Jacobs. Brad’s resumé is remarkable.
Brad Jacobs discussed The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Singularity Is Near
Discussed“One of the acknowledgments actually is Ray Kurzweil, because Kurzweil wrote a book in, I would say 2006, 2006 or so, called The Singularity is Near. And its premise was that technology is advancing at ever-increasing speeds, it's accelerating.”
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“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?”
“So one of the things I learned from Mr. Jesselson, and I write about this in the book, is you can mess up a lot of things if you get the major trend right.”
Passing The Singularity Is Near
“When I was reading the tech chronology in your book, it gave me flashbacks to reading Ray Kurzweil's work back in my 20s or something. The singularity is near.”
“which fast forward to today is the title of one of the chapters of my book is how to run an electric meeting. And one of the keys to that is to make sure that people in the room, they have the right people in the room.”
“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, but that's not the only purpose of the book.”
“I think the book is to help people dream big, have people get out of their ruts of thinking and explore bigger, newer, important ways and increase their desire, increase their goals and to help them at least show them what's worked for me.”