137. Creating value with M&A: A conversation with XPO CEO Brad Jacobs
Inside the Strategy Room
English - October 06, 2022 12:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MB - ★★★★ - 135 ratingsBusiness News Business News business management strategy leadership workplace trends future careers business strategy innovation boards investors Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Few business leaders have more experience in M&A than Brad Jacobs. Over a four-decade-plus career, he created several billion-dollar corporations. The most recent three he built largely through acquisitions: United Rentals, an industrial equipment rental company; United Waste Systems, involved in garbage collection; and XPO, the logistics company he currently leads. At both United Rentals and United Waste, he executed more than 200 deals each. At XPO, he has created a digital-forward logistics leader in an industry that has tended to lag in technology adoption.
Brad will soon transition from CEO to executive chairman of XPO. We thought it’d be a good time to ask him to share the lessons he has learned over the course of his extensive deal-making experience. Brad sat down with Andy West, a senior partner based in Boston who co-leads McKinsey’s M&A practice globally.
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