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

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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 increa

[00:00] A: 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 is. 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…

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

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