Brad Jacobs

About

I’m a career CEO with a unique track record as both a business builder and Wall Street moneymaker. I’ve founded eight billion-dollar or multibillion-dollar companies, creating tens of billions of dollars in shareholder value across multiple industries. This includes six publicly traded corporations: United Waste, United Rentals, XPO, GXO Logistics, RXO, and my most recent company, QXO — a leading distributer and installer of building products.My edge is that I hire exceptionally talented people who think big and are committed to achieving remarkable results. My teams and I have completed about 500 M&A transactions across multiple industries, and we’ve raised more than $60 billion of institutional capital. In the supply chain industry, we grew XPO into a top 10 global logistics provider before completing the $7 billion spin-off of GXO Logistics and the $5 billion spin-off of RXO, creating two new public companies in about 15 months. XPO was the seventh best-performing stock of the last decade in the Fortune 500 and became a "50-bagger" by the end of 2024 — meaning initial investors in XPO made more than 50 times their money. Prior to XPO, I founded United Rentals and United Waste. We built United Rentals into the largest construction equipment rental company in the world in just 13 months. United Rentals was the sixth best-performing Fortune 500 stock of the last decade and became a “300-bagger” — the share price at inception was $3.50 and its stock now trades at over 300 times that price. United Waste’s stock outperformed the S&P 500 by 5.6 times from the time I took the company public to the time we sold it in 1997 for $2.5 billion, having grown it into the fifth largest solid waste management company in North America. My two books, How to Make a Few Billion Dollars and How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars, outline the playbook we’ve used for more than four decades to create exceptional shareholder value.