#335 How To Make A Few Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs

What I learned from reading How To Make A Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs.  ---- Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes ---- Come and build in-person relationships at the Founders Only conference ---- (0:01) I'm what's called a moneymaker. I've started five companies from scratch—seven if you include two spin-offs and turned them all into billion dollar or multibillion-dollar enterprises. (2:00) I love working with outrageously talented people to deliver outsized returns for shareholders in public stock markets. (5:00) All of the successful people I know have rearranged their brains to prevail at achieving big goals in turbulent environments where conventional thinking often fails. (5:00) The single most powerful pattern I have noticed is that successful people find value in unexpected places and they do this by thinking about business from first principles. —  Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel (Founders #335) (7:00) So much of success in business comes from keeping your head in a good place. (8:00) I'm an ambitious person by nature and a dealmaker by inclination. (9:00) Episode #295: I Had Dinner With Charlie Munger (13:00) Listen to Think Big and Move Fast: Brad Jacobs on Invest Like the Best  (14:00) Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business by Danny Meyer. (Founders #20) (15:00) If you want to make money in the business world, you need to get used to problems, because that's what business is. (20:00) I am not surprised when things don’t go perfectly. That is the nature of the universe. (21:00) Listen to this incredible conversation between Charlie Munger and John Collison on Invest Like The Best.  (28:00) Invest in technology. The savings compound, it gives you an advantage over a slower moving competitor, and can be the difference between a profit and a loss. (Lesson from Andrew Carnegie) (31:00) How Larry Gagosian Reshap