"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 b..."

"perfection. His inner monologue was so negative. And one of the things I learned from talking to Brad and observing Brad is like over time it's fine if you start out with a negative fuel source. Most ..."

"And they do this all on a single platform. Ramp's corporate cards are fully programmable. You can set limits so the spending your team never gets out of hand. Most companies only find out about excess..."

"carefully enough, you can end up giving away too much for too little. So the first source of equity that I want to talk about, he talks about family offices. Over the last 20 years, a new class of inv..."

"excited about a stock, they'll become online crusaders for your company. All that positive exposure can create value because it shapes perceptions about your company and reaches existing and prospecti..."

"dozen CEOs who are truly knowledgeable about all the ingredients that make an acquisition successful. This is important because if you're not substantially improving the companies you buy, you're just..."

"from his recent past. When QXO closed on the Beacon Buildings products deal, we sent out a Zoom town hall invite to everyone with a Beacon email address within minutes of the press release going live...."

"because no one's ever stopped to ask what is the optimal organizational architecture to accomplish our goals. For good org chart design, at the heart of that design is this question. Where should deci..."

"so you can keep growing a company that your customers can trust. Many companies will not sign contracts unless you're certified and that causes you to lose out on sales. That is why the average Vanta ..."

"powerful tenants are knowing others as intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom. And the second one is mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. From the 6th century BC to t..."

"is really good at zooming out and trying to put everything into its proper context. So he's like, well, how do these human traits that we deal with now, how do they evolve and do they make any sense i..."

"And so then Brad at the end of the section says, "When I find myself out of the zone, when I find myself offc center, I try to pay attention to what I've been telling myself that made me upset and I r..."