How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars

by Brad Jacobs

Amazon Best Seller in Wealth Management, Consolidation & Merger, Business Consolidations & Mergers and Entrepreneurship

Are you ready to sharpen the skills that fuel extraordinary success?

In this sequel to his bestselling How to Make a Few Billion Dollars, renowned entrepreneur Brad Jacobs delivers a detailed playbook for mastering business success at scale. He explains how to partner with the smartest global investors, integrate acquisitions into cohesive profit engines, and build organizations where culture, compensation, and talent are perfectly aligned. How to Make a Few More Billion Dollars is both a practical how-to manual and a rich trove of insights you can apply to your own ambitions.

Jacobs reveals a wealth of proven techniques for cultivating a winning mindset—the foundation of his formidable track record as a Wall Street moneymaker. He details the meditation and psychological tools he uses to stay centered amid chaos, lead with clarity, and reframe irrational beliefs and cognitive distortions. His step-by-step mindfulness methods apply to any goal, whether you want to transform a global industry or create monumental value in any other area.


Jacobs concludes by distilling 2.6 million years of technological and tool-making evolution before confronting the responsibilities leaders face in shaping the future of AI. He presents four potential outcomes for humanity—from collapse to utopia—and argues that our choices right now will determine whether we merely survive or truly thrive at levels once unimaginable.

Genres: Business, Biography, Nonfiction

235 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 9, 2025

Reviews

[Ferhat Elmas · Rating 2 out of 5]

His playbook is personal but (claimed to be) transferable: first clear/calm the mind, then target a massive fragmented industry with durable growth and tech lag, raise patient public capital, buy at favorable multiples, integrate fast, and expand margins through culture and systems.

The deeper point is that wealth creation is a repeatable stack of interdependent advantages: industry selection, capital alignment, acquisition discipline, integration speed, data infrastructure, and talent. One weak layer collapses the whole model.

A sound framework but the book is thin on failed cases and on what distinguishes replicable method from operator-specific edge (base rates). A distillation on Charlie's lollapalooza.

[Graham Reynolds · Rating 1 out of 5]

substance is fine but doesn't qualify as a book. more of a sub stack piece

[V · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.8 ⭐️ Quick read into Brad Jacob’s thought processes and target signals — more relevant/valuable for those who follow him or the industries he enters rather than a general business book for the average reader. Was very helpful they included a summary of the first book at the end.

[C · Rating 1 out of 5]

Should have been a blog post

[Tyler Hoffman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Would have been 5 stars if longer / more substantive. Highly recommend the industry ID, org design, and integration chapters for anyone in M&A

[Tiny Quasar group · Rating 2 out of 5]

The whole book feels like a LinkedIn post of a founder who’s begging for engagement. He doesn’t seem to take his own advice “Look for a space where companies are fragmented and using old technology, use ai and scale to trillions” that’s the exact thing he said, I’m not even exaggerating, he actually said trillions. Now if we look at his own ventures- a logistics company and an equipment rental company. How are these two companies following his advice? Did he actually think that he’s gonna make logistics and equipment renting a trillion dollar business? Equipment renting relies mostly on your luck and less on your actual skill, I don’t know about America but in other countries when a company defaults then multiple stake holders come in the way to claim that they have higher priority over company’s assets. Even if you have rented those equipments, the process is still messy and takes months before you get your equipment back, let alone your interest payments. Logistics is yet another boring business where all the companies in the field already have adopted the best technology that is available, the whole sector is a very low margin cut throat competition, which is against the authors advice.

The starting few chapters have some mind calming techniques which others might find useful. But they demonstrate the massive ego that the author has “swallow the whole universe”

[Emziethebookworm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was a nice short audiobook to listen to, to pass the time a mean it was certainly helpful in many ways of learning.
The only main issue I did really have with this audiobook is that, it was short one and I did feel that it could of went on for another few hours in my opinion.
I really enjoyed the narrator throughout this audiobook as well, I would love to find more works by this narrator in the future.
Thank you to netgallery for allowing me to listen to this audiobook.

[Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book hard to follow what its aim was to be honest. The first few chapters felt more like a health and well being book then middle part was talking through some helpful topics but feels very unattainable and not for the normal business owner and the last part was spent talking about acquisitions of billion dollar companies. Then spent time going into what he believes will happen to human kind because of AI. Again som helpful thoughts but felt a little unfocused to me.

[* Elle * the * Babbling * Dabbler * · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is helpful with adjusting to the expansion of AI all while still maintaining our human mentality. It blends how to gain a wealth mentality with how to grow with the ai change instead of fighting it.
Thank you to Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

[T · Rating 5 out of 5]

A+ merely for the awesome meditation and self-talk sequence in the beginning.
Short and enjoyable read. Less of a book and more of a 1hr interview

[Calle U · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good lessons and reminders on the culture needed to build and operate a successful company

[Myres Allen · Rating 3 out of 5]

i think the first book was much more impactful and had a lot more helpful frameworks in it. This book could’ve been about 50% shorter i think and been better value for time spent reading.

[Lewis Manalo · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's probably more useful if you already have a few billion dollars.