Jacobs is chairman and CEO of QXO, Inc., the largest publicly traded distributor of roofing, waterproofing, and complementary building products in the United States. He serves as executive chairman of the board of XPO, Inc. (NYSE: XPO), which he founded in 2011. He is the author of How to Make a Few Billion Dollars.

Jacobs is a career CEO and serial entrepreneur with a unique track record of creating outsized value for shareholders — he has started eight companies from scratch and turned them all into billion-dollar or multibillion-dollar enterprises, with two of the 10 best-performing Fortune 500 stocks of the last decade: XPO, Inc. (#7) and United Rentals, Inc. (#6).

Over the course of his career, Jacobs has completed approximately 500 acquisitions, raised around $50 billion in institutional capital, and created iconic organizations that have transformed industry practices through technology.