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#408 How to Make a Few MORE Billion Dollars: Brad Jacobs

December 29, 2025

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  • The Format: This solo-hosted episode delivers an in-depth, enthusiastic book review and personal reflection on Brad Jacobs' sequel How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars, blending narrative storytelling with extracted wisdom on scaling businesses through mindset mastery and operational excellence in a Reflective and Instructional tone.
  • The Format: A narrative story driven by the host's monologue summarizing key book chapters, interspersed with personal anecdotes.
  • The Key Players:
  • If Just Hosts: Host David Senra delivers a passionate solo breakdown of the book, showcasing his evolving mindset influenced by author Brad Jacobs, a serial entrepreneur who built eight billion-dollar companies; their real-life chemistry shines through stories of breakfasts, parties, and filmed conversations that highlight Brad's infectious positive energy.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (00:00) **Book Introduction & Brad Jacobs' Qualifications**
  • 2 (01:13) **Standalone Ideas from Introduction**
  • 3 (02:02) **Host's Personal Experiences with Brad Jacobs**
  • 4 (06:03) **More Introduction Highlights**
  • 5 (07:19) **Chapter 4: Raising Tons of Money**
  • 6 (13:10) **Investor Types: Private Equity, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Pensions**
  • 7 (15:07) **Investor Types: Long-Only Funds, Retail, Hedge Funds, Debt**

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Show Notes

In 2024 Brad Jacobs wrote the book How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. In the book Brad explains how he built 8 separate billion dollar companies and other lessons from his 40+ year career as an elite entrepreneur. In the two years since Brad has made a few MORE billion dollars and so the sequel to his first book is: How to Make a Few MORE Billion Dollars. In this episode I share some of Brad's ideas on raising tons of money (Brad has raised over $50 billion), mastering his integration playbook, ideas for organizational integration, org chart design, and how Brad keeps his mind centered and in a positive place to handle the inevitable ups and downs of building great companies. Episode sponsors: ⁠ Ramp⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greatest entrepreneurs proud ⁠⁠⁠by going to Ramp and learning how they can help your business control your costs and save time and money.⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://ramp.com Automate compliance, security, and trust with Vanta.⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Vanta helps you win trust, close deals, and stay secure—faster and with less effort⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠Find out how increased security leads to more customers by going to Vanta⁠⁠⁠. Tell them David from Founders sent you and you'll get $1000 off. https://vanta.com/founders⁠⁠⁠ Collateral⁠⁠ transforms your complex ideas into compelling narratives. Collateral crafts institutional grade marketing collateral for private equity, private credit, real estate, venture capital, family offices, hedge funds, oil & gas companies, and all kinds of corporations. Storytelling is one of the highest forms of leverage and you should invest heavily in it. You can do that by going to ⁠⁠https://collateral.com

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