Jacobs is chairman and CEO of QXO, Inc., the second-largest publicly traded distributor of building products in the United States. He is the author of How to Make a Few Billion Dollars and its sequel, How to Make a Few More 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 $60 billion in institutional capital, and created iconic organizations that have transformed industry practices through technology.