How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies
Already a great company when acquired, its profit doubled within about three years under Jacobs's team, as an example of the buy-then-transform method.
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A freight and logistics company acquired by XPO.
Already a great company when acquired, its profit doubled within about three years under Jacobs's team, as an example of the buy-then-transform method.
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OtherA consumer technology company that makes the Mac, iPod, iPhone and software.
OtherGoogle's web search product, now including AI Overviews, AI Mode and Lens.
OtherGoogle's app store for Android, with its own listing rules and search ranking.
John D. Rockefeller's oil refining company that came to dominate American kerosene and oil distribution.
OtherThe world's leading contract chip maker, a pure-play foundry that manufactures chips for fabless designers.
OtherAn electric car maker that builds its own key components and factories.
OtherA semiconductor company that made memory chips and the first microprocessor.
OtherA private aerospace company building reusable rockets, the Dragon capsule, Starship and the Starlink satellite network.