Freddie Laker
Founding Partner, Chameleon Collective. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Freddie Laker is a founding partner of Chameleon Collective, embedding interim leaders into private equity and venture capital portfolio companies. The son of airline pioneer Sir Freddie Laker, he previously founded Laker.Net and iChameleon Group, and co-authored the book Collective Capitalism.
1shows
1appearances
12statements
3resolved
1supported
0contradicted
33%fully supported
Everything Freddie Laker said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Laker: Traditional agency business models thrive on making clients addicted and never leaving
“Most agencies and consulting types of businesses, or their whole business model was predicated on getting into a client, Getting the client addicted to them, pretty much making long-term agreements and trying never to leave. That's how those businesses thrive.”
Laker: Chameleon Collective operates as a decentralized holacracy without traditional hierarchy
“We effectively are a decentralized organization. We have a, you know, unique way that we all work together that's allowed us to scale. You know, for example, we have no hierarchy. We use a derivative of management style called holacracy, and we reorg our leade…”
Laker: Transformation visionaries should be replaced by cheaper execution operators
“The person that they may need to hire for the next six months may not be the same person they need to hire in the next 36 months. And what I mean by that is sometimes when you get inside these businesses, especially if they're Again, going through these kind o…”
Laker: Extreme attention to detail separates $30k/month talent from $10k/month talent
“This kind of attention to detail is what separates juniors in the mid-level from the senior people, because it says, I take my craft really seriously, and people put a value on this. People out there are selling their services to other people on an hourly basi…”
Laker: Companies Should Not Outsource Digital Acquisition to Agencies
“I don't believe that companies should be outsourcing a lot of these digital muscles into agencies. It made sense 10 years ago when a campaigns or digital type, you know, engagements, people say, Hey, look, I'm going to do my one this once or twice a year. Well…”
Laker: Chameleon Collective reached $2M/month in revenue with zero outside investment
“Started five years ago without any investment and it's over a hundred of us now, and we've just actually crossed the two million dollar a month mark in revenue.”
Laker: 16 major airlines price-fixed to bankrupt Laker Airways
“He disrupted the aviation world so badly that 16 of the world's biggest airlines effectively Ganged up on him and adjusted their pricing, fixed pricing effectively to put them out of business.”
Laker: PE Investors Only Care About Binary Target Delivery
“In my experience with the investors is they don't really know what we do, nor do they care to on any specific level. They're very, very, very good at their craft around finance and operationalizing the business. They just want to know that they can bring in a …”
Laker: Chameleon Collective now structures contracts for PE exit upside
“One of the things we've started doing recently is now tying ourselves into that, where we'll build some kind of mechanism in place so there's a performance component. Those have long-term horizons, Where we're not going to really get to capitalize on them in s…”
Laker: Turnaround success cannot be judged until 6-12 months post-exit
“And then the reality is you can't really even see how good a job you did till six months or maybe even a year later, when all those team members you put in place, like everyone stayed, you call the CEO, you call the private equity firm. How's it going off? Eve…”
Laker: Sir Freddie Laker was knighted for founding low-cost aviation
“My father was actually a knighted by the Queen of England for his, I think the exact phrasing was for allowing the common man to travel, and his kind of contribution to society was that he was the founder of the very first low-cost airline.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Freddie's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 WE LIVE TO BUILDLEDGER | Founding Partner, Chameleon Collective | 1 | 12 | 33% 1/3 | full record on We Live to Build → |