How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies
One of the top 10 stock performers of the last decade, built on the same principles as United Rentals. At about 150,000 employees, Jacobs counted roughly 1.2 million work hours a day to direct toward priorities.
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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 runs every request through the filter of waste of time, waste of money▶ 1:52:19At XPO, with about 150,000 employees, he counted roughly 1.2 million work hours a day to direct toward priorities.







