#408 How to Make a Few MORE Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs

#408 如何赚取更多数十亿美元:布拉德·雅各布斯

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2025-12-30

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In 2024 Brad Jacobs wrote the book How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. In the book Brad explains how he built 8 separate billion dollar companies and other lessons from his 40+ year career as an elite entrepreneur. In the two years since Brad has made a few MORE billion dollars and so the sequel to his first book is: How to Make a Few MORE Billion Dollars. In this episode I share some of Brad's ideas on raising tons of money (Brad has raised over $50 billion), mastering his integration playbook, ideas for organizational integration, org chart design, and how Brad keeps his mind centered and in a positive place to handle the inevitable ups and downs of building great companies. Episode sponsors: ⁠ Ramp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud ⁠⁠⁠by going to Ramp and learning how they can help your business control your costs and save time and money.⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ramp.com Automate compliance, security, and trust with Vanta.⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Vanta helps you win trust, close deals, and stay secure—faster and with less effort⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠Find out how increased security leads to more customers by going to Vanta⁠⁠⁠. Tell them David from Founders sent you and you'll get $1000 off. https://vanta.com/founders⁠⁠⁠ Collateral⁠⁠ transforms your complex ideas into compelling narratives. Collateral crafts institutional grade marketing collateral for private equity, private credit, real estate, venture capital, family offices, hedge funds, oil & gas companies, and all kinds of corporations. Storytelling is one of the highest forms of leverage and you should invest heavily in it. You can do that by going to ⁠⁠https://collateral.com
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  • Two years ago, Brad Jacobs wrote a book called How to Make a Few Billion Dollars.

  • I covered it all the way back on episode 335.

  • In the two years since the book has come out, Brad has made a few more billion dollars.

  • So his new book has the appropriate title of How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars.

  • Brad was kind enough to send me an early copy of the book so I could read it and do an episode on it.

  • So I want to jump right in the introduction.

  • In the introduction, he talks about why he wrote this book.

  • He said after the first book,

  • I started getting inquiries from people on topics that I didn't cover enough or at all.

  • This sequel provides answers to those questions.

  • And he states why he would be qualified to write such a book.

  • He says, I start companies from scratch,

  • assemble teams capable of extraordinary success and turn abstract ideas into billions of dollars of tangible value.

  • But this is my favorite thing about Brad is how much he talks about managing his mind and how over his nearly five decade career.

  • He has learned the tools to turn an imperfect mind into a mind capable of building billions of dollars of value.

  • And so he says, but I'm far from perfect.

  • Psychologist Albert Ellis nailed it when he said, we're all valuable, fucked up human beings.

  • Well, count me among them.

  • And so in the introduction, there's a series of what I would call like stand alone ideas from Brad.

  • I just made a list and I just want to share some of those with you.