July 2, 2024· 48 min
How Brad Jacobs Will Invest $4.5 Billion to Reshape Building Supplies
Orality
Model
50%
Speaker Breakdown
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,860 words)
M:29%
HostTracy Alloway(5,999 words)
M:29%
GuestBrad Jacobs(1,613 words)
M:94%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic31%
definitely, amazing, very
Engagement86%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
like (83x), it's (80x), know (61x)
Parallelism70%
And And I'm Joe Weisenthal...., And since we talked to him, he..., 4 and a half billion dollars i...
Sound Patterns100%
103 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases6%
you know what, i mean, if you will
Literate Indicators
Hedging6%
may, maybe, could
Passive Voice1%
is unconstructed, is called, was then
Abstract Nouns19%
investment, business, chase.com/business
Subordination7%
since, because, unless
Sentence Length26%
Avg: 11.5 words/sentence
Word Complexity47%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style14%
890 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style74%
apply, supply, actually
Description
Brad Jacobs has made a career of starting, consolidating, and growing whole industries. He did a trucking company. He did a warehouse company. He has a freight brokerage. He created an equipment rental company. His new venture, dubbed QXO, aims to reshape the big and sprawling market for building supplies, which can encompass residential, infrastructure and commercial real estate. And he has $4.5 billion of his and his investors' money to go out and buy and build. In this special episode of the Odd Lots podcast, recorded live at the Bloomberg Invest conference in New York City, he talks about where he is in the new process, and what he plans to do once he's made his acquisitions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.