Brad Jacobs has a unique track record as a business builder and Wall Street moneymaker. He has founded and led eight companies, all of which he grew into billion-dollar or multi-billion-dollar corporations. He has completed approximately 500 M&A transactions and raised more than $60 billion in institutional capital.
His six publicly traded companies include United Waste, United Rentals, and XPO—along with its two spin-offs, GXO Logistics and RXO—and, more recently, QXO.
Jacobs founded XPO in 2011 and led it to become one of the world’s largest freight transportation providers. XPO’s stock became a "50-bagger," meaning initial investors in 2011 made more than 50 times their original investment.
Before XPO, Jacobs founded United Rentals in 1997 and grew it to become the world’s largest equipment rental provider in just 13 months. United Rentals’ stock has since grown into a “300-
bagger.”
XPO ranked as the seventh best-performing Fortune 500 stock over the past decade, while United Rentals was the sixth best-performing stock over the same period.
Earlier in his career, Jacobs built United Waste into the fifth largest solid waste management company in the U.S., with its stock outperforming the S&P 500 by 5.6 times.
Today, Jacobs serves as chairman and CEO of QXO, North America's largest distributor and installer of insulation, the second-largest distributor of roofing products, the second-largest publicly traded distributor of lumber and building materials, and the largest distributor of waterproofing products.