Guest
Brad Jacobs
Chairman & CEO, QXO
Real Alpha has cut 3 moments of Brad Jacobs (Chairman & CEO, QXO) talking, from an interview on The Knowledge Project published Aug 4, 2026.
What Brad Jacobs said
Improvising on a pivot: how a messy org chart became a 15x deal
“If you can find something that's messed up and easy to un-mess up, booyah, there's your money. There's your opportunity to make a lot of money.”
Brad Jacobs26:23 How to pick an industry and price an acquisition
“The biggest lever, the biggest component is the differential between what I raise capital at due to my relationships with mostly institutional investors”
Brad Jacobs1:02:29 The diligence questions Jacobs asks the top 15 people
“I like to ask them, if this was your money, would you buy this company?”
Brad Jacobs1:08:38
The episode
The Knowledge ProjectThe Business Lessons That Made Him Billions
Brad Jacobs · QXO
23:06of 1:39:17 · Aug 4
