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THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 4

By Cathal Brennan · 4 parts · 15 h 34 min · English

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Providence, Greenwich, Michigan and the American freight network, 1956 to 2023. Brad Jacobs leaves college early, brokers oil at twenty-three, and then spends four decades doing one thing repeatedly: finding an industry made of thousands of small family firms and buying them into a single company. Garbage first, then construction equipment, then freight. The vehicle he takes control of in 2011 is a small expedited trucking outfit in Michigan; seven years later it moves freight on four continents and books revenue in the tens of billions. The volume turns on a question the record does not settle. Is a roll-up a way of building an industrial company, or a way of assembling a share price that the freight cycle will eventually take apart? Covers Brad Jacobs, United Waste Systems, United Rentals, XPO Logistics, GXO Logistics, and RXO.

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  1. Part 01

    3:32:04

  2. Part 02

    3:58:17

  3. Part 03

    3:35:17

  4. Part 04

    4:28:42

Books in this series

  1. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 1

    4 parts · 16 h 26 min

  2. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 2

    4 parts · 14 h 46 min

  3. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 3

    4 parts · 15 h 42 min

  4. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 4

    4 parts · 15 h 34 min

  5. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 5

    4 parts · 14 h 11 min

  6. THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 6

    4 parts · 13 h 13 min