David Senra · Oct 26How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies
Jacobs stepped down as CEO after about 10 years, then struggled to find his next startup, and a clinical depression followed. It was also a top 10 stock performer of the last decade.
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- Brad Jacobs reduces value creation to two levers: out-grow the market and expand margins▶ 1:18:06United Rentals and XPO were both top 10 stock performers in the last decade, built on the same principles and structures.
- Brad Jacobs went through two years of cognitive therapy to break his perfectionism▶ 21:58He took the Beck Depression Inventory and scored depressed, and calls the therapy one of the best things he has ever done.
