Derek Fredrickson

I started my career on Wall Street managing teams and hitting year-end targets. After helping scale my wife's business past seven figures, I found the work I actually wanted to do, which is helping other founders get there. For over 16 years I have helped business owners grow to seven and multiple seven figures while getting their time back. I founded The COO Solution to place embedded fractional COOs with founder-led companies, typically between $1M and $15M in revenue, across the US, UK, and Europe. Our COOs serve as the second-in-command who translates a founder's vision into executable strategy, builds the team, and holds it accountable. I can speak to operations, scaling past the founder bottleneck, hiring and structuring leadership teams, and what actually breaks when a business...