How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars - Hardcover

by Brad Jacobs (Author)

Are you ready to sharpen the skills that fuel extraordinary success?

In this sequel to his bestselling How to Make a Few Billion Dollars, renowned entrepreneur Brad Jacobs delivers a detailed playbook for mastering business success at scale. He explains how to partner with the smartest global investors, integrate acquisitions into cohesive profit engines, and build organizations where culture, compensation, and talent are perfectly aligned. How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars is both a practical how-to manual and a wealth of fresh insights you can apply to your own ambitions.

Jacobs reveals a wealth of proven techniques for cultivating a winning mindset--the foundation of his formidable track record as a Wall Street moneymaker. He details the meditation and psychological tools he uses to stay centered amid chaos, lead with clarity, and reframe irrational beliefs and cognitive distortions. His step-by-step mindfulness methods apply to any goal, whether you want to transform a global industry or create monumental value in any other area.

Jacobs concludes by distilling 2.6 million years of technological and tool-making evolution before confronting the responsibilities leaders face in shaping the future of AI. He presents four potential outcomes for humanity--from collapse to utopia--and argues that our choices right now will determine whether we merely survive or truly thrive at levels once unimaginable.

Author Biography

American entrepreneur Brad Jacobs is a career CEO with a unique track record as a Wall Street moneymaker. He has founded and led eight companies, including six publicly traded, multibillion-dollar corporations: United Waste Systems, United Rentals, XPO and its spin-offs RXO and GXO Logistics, and now QXO, one of the world's largest building products distributors. Over the course of his career, he has completed approximately 500 M&A transactions, raised over $50 billion of debt and equity capital, and created tens of billions of dollars in shareholder value.

Jacobs grew XPO into a top ten global logistics provider and the seventh-best-performing stock of the last decade in the Fortune 500. XPO's stock became a "50-bagger"--initial investors in 2011 made more than 50 times their money. United Rentals was the sixth-best-performing stock during the same period and is now more than a "200-bagger." United Waste's stock outperformed the S&P 500 by 5.6x over five years, from the time Jacobs took the company public to when it was sold for $2.5 billion.

Jacobs is chairman and CEO of QXO and executive chairman of XPO.