Bradley Jacobs
Greenwich, Connecticut
United States
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logistics, Self Made
$1,900,000,000
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#1349 Billionaires 2019
#302 Forbes 400 2018
Most of Bradley Jacobs' fortune comes from XPO Logistics, a commercial transportation company that ships heavy goods like washing machines to homes.Jacobs created XPO Logistics in 2011 and has expanded it with some $8 billion in deals; he owns just under 14% of the NYSE-listed company.In the 1990s he consolidated rural trash hauling, building United Waste and flipping it to Waste Management in 1997 for $1.9 billion.He then built United Rentals into the biggest heavy equipment rental company in the world. Its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange.
A trained classical pianist, Jacobs studied piano and mathematics at Brown University before dropping out.Jacobs has a Palm Beach mansion a few doors down from President Trump's Mar-a-Lago.
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