Derek Coburn

CEO & Co-Founder, CADRE · 1 appearance on the record.

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After over two decades as a financial advisor, Derek Coburn co-founded CADRE, a curated community for CEOs and business leaders. He is also the author of Networking Is Not Working and Let’s Retire Retirement, which argues in favor of designing purpose-driven work over traditional retirement.

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1 prediction · 1 assertion · 1 opinion · 4 insights · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertion are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 1 is not yet assessed. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Derek argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Coburn: Over 30% of 65-Year-Olds Return to Work After Retiring

“Over 30% of 65 year olds are going back to work because they don't enjoy just not doing anything, not contributing, not feeling useful, not connecting with other people.”

Derek Coburn Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 3:15 Episode 777 | Why Retiring Might Be the Worst Goal for Entreprene...

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What they said7 Episodes1

Everything Derek Coburn said on Startups For the Rest of Us that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2027

Coburn: 45% of US Workers Will Be Freelancers by 2027

“We're going to be up to 45% of the workers in this country are going to be freelancers by the year twenty-twenty-seven.”

Derek Coburn Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 24:04 Episode 777 | Why Retiring Might Be the Worst Goal for Entreprene...

Insight

Coburn: The Most Successful Entrepreneurs Maintain Outside Income While Building

“Even though entrepreneurs sort of had the reputation of being great risk takers, the best entrepreneurs, according to this study and a lot of this research are shown to be the ones that are very good risk mitigators, because it was the companies that were most…”

Derek Coburn Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 22:33 Episode 777 | Why Retiring Might Be the Worst Goal for Entreprene...

Assertion Contradicted

Coburn: Over 30% of 65-Year-Olds Return to Work After Retiring

“Over 30% of 65 year olds are going back to work because they don't enjoy just not doing anything, not contributing, not feeling useful, not connecting with other people.”

Derek Coburn Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 3:15 Episode 777 | Why Retiring Might Be the Worst Goal for Entreprene...

Insight

Coburn: Delaying retirement to 75 cuts monthly savings need by 96%

“The number goes from 2400 dollars a month down to 110 dollars per month. The amount that he needs to save in order to quote unquote retire goes down by 96%. And even if Tony were to say, I'll work until I'm 70 instead of 75, the number goes down to 600 dollars…”

Derek Coburn Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 8:55 Episode 777 | Why Retiring Might Be the Worst Goal for Entreprene...

Insight

Coburn: Society overlooks the immediate 20-hour payoffs of sleep and health

“So I think that when it comes to things like sleep and health and working out that our society overemphasizes the benefits that will occur. 20 years from now and under emphasizes the benefits that will occur. 20 hours from now.”

Derek Coburn Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 17:25 Episode 777 | Why Retiring Might Be the Worst Goal for Entreprene...

Insight

Coburn: Unretirement Is Rising Because Traditional Retirement Fails Expectations

“The reason why the unretirement movement is, is as big as it is, is because people were promised to feel a certain way once they got to retirement. They were promised a certain outcome, the arrival fallacy, if you will, They were promised something. If they di…”

Derek Coburn Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 27:26 Episode 777 | Why Retiring Might Be the Worst Goal for Entreprene...

Opinion

Coburn: Society is in a 'fun recession' among adults

“I think we're in a fun recession. I think that the majority of adults are not coming close at all to having the appropriate amount of fun that they should be having on a regular basis.”

Derek Coburn Jun 3, 2025 ▶ 19:45 Episode 777 | Why Retiring Might Be the Worst Goal for Entreprene...

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Episode 777 \| Why Retiring Might Be the Worst Goal for Entreprene...	Jun 3, 2025	16m

Derek Coburn

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