Cameron Herold

Founder, COO Alliance · 1 appearance on the record.

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Herold is the former COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, where he helped scale the business from $2 million to $106 million in revenue. He is the founder of the COO Alliance and has authored several business books, including Double Double and Meetings Suck.

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2 supported 1 partly supported 2 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 7 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 6 assertions · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 5 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. 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 Cameron argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Herold: Coached BlueGrace Logistics from $80M to $250M revenue in four years

“I started coaching him just over four years ago, and I've coached Bobby Harris and five of his executives for the four years. They've gone from a roughly eighty million dollars in top line revenue to about two hundred and fifty million. They just raised two hu…”

Cameron Herold Aug 28, 2017 ▶ 5:14 765: How This Coach Can Charge $80k+ per Year for One Gig

Their most notable contradicted claim

Prediction Didn’t hold up

Herold: The financial markets are at their absolute peak in August 2017

“I think we're at the very, very peak of a market right now.”

Cameron Herold Aug 28, 2017 ▶ 11:50 765: How This Coach Can Charge $80k+ per Year for One Gig

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Cameron Herold on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

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Everything Cameron Herold said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Didn’t hold up

Herold: The financial markets are at their absolute peak in August 2017

“I think we're at the very, very peak of a market right now.”

Cameron Herold Aug 28, 2017 ▶ 11:50 765: How This Coach Can Charge $80k+ per Year for One Gig

Disclosure

Herold: Sprint pays $160,000 annually for one monthly executive coaching call

“My starting point is 80,000 a year is my starting entry point with any of the clients. And then I have up from there, depending on the size. So I coach the second in command of sprint. So they're paying double that. And I just do one call a month with them.”

Cameron Herold Aug 28, 2017 ▶ 12:50 765: How This Coach Can Charge $80k+ per Year for One Gig

Disclosure

Herold: Uses Augusta rule for an $80,000 to $90,000 annual tax deduction

“So what I do is my business rents the house from myself for the 16 nights a year that I'm allowed, and I use it for business purposes, and those business purposes are legitimate, and you get a fairly about an 80 or 90,000 dollar tax rate.”

Cameron Herold Aug 28, 2017 ▶ 17:03 765: How This Coach Can Charge $80k+ per Year for One Gig

Insight

Herold: Culture Is Alignment and Removing Bad Employees, Not Free Food

“Culture is not about the wee room and the free lunch. It's about the alignment with core values, alignment with vision, getting rid of the bad employees.”

Cameron Herold Aug 28, 2017 ▶ 6:00 765: How This Coach Can Charge $80k+ per Year for One Gig

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Herold: Pushed Hootsuite aggressively back toward profitability during 2015 leadership meeting

“I led the leadership team meeting for Hootsuite two and a half years ago for Ryan Holmes and his team, and I really, really aggressively pushed them back towards profitability, so they did.”

Cameron Herold Aug 28, 2017 ▶ 11:57 765: How This Coach Can Charge $80k+ per Year for One Gig

Assertion Partly supported

Herold: Scaled 1-800-GOT-JUNK from 14 to 3,100 employees in six years

“I then became the COO, chief operating officer for a small company called the one 800 got junk. And I took them from 14 employees to 3100 employees in six years.”

Cameron Herold Aug 28, 2017 ▶ 2:22 765: How This Coach Can Charge $80k+ per Year for One Gig

Assertion Contradicted

Herold: Early virtual currency startup had 30,000 corporate clients including Starwood

“We had 30,000 companies using our currency instead of the US dollar. We had Starwood Hotels, Avis Rent-A-Car, Hard Rock Cafe. They all accepted our electronic currency, which was tied to the US dollar in terms of evaluation, but it was completely backed by not…”

Cameron Herold Aug 28, 2017 ▶ 4:07 765: How This Coach Can Charge $80k+ per Year for One Gig

Assertion Supported

Herold: Coached BlueGrace Logistics from $80M to $250M revenue in four years

Cameron Herold Aug 28, 2017 ▶ 5:14 765: How This Coach Can Charge $80k+ per Year for One Gig

Assertion Supported

Herold: Tucker Max's Book in a Box charges $25,000 per book

“Because 25,000 is their cost to pull a book out of your head and get it in print.”

Cameron Herold Aug 28, 2017 ▶ 8:39 765: How This Coach Can Charge $80k+ per Year for One Gig

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Herold: Publishing books increased his keynote speaking fee from $7,500 to $35,000

“Yeah, it used to be 7500 and it's now 35,000.”

Cameron Herold Aug 28, 2017 ▶ 10:53 765: How This Coach Can Charge $80k+ per Year for One Gig

The other half of the tape: Cameron Herold's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 9 times in 5 episodes on Top Founders. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Chris Brisson 3 Nathan Latka 2 Brian Scudamore 2 John Ruhlin 1 Hal Elrod 1

Statements about Cameron Herold, by other people (1)

Assertion Supported

Scudamore: Cameron Herold was COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK from $2M to $106M

“You know what, I didn't have a co-founder, but I've got a guy, Cameron Harreld, who might have been on your podcast. Yes. He's our COO from two million to one hundred and six million, and the guy bled blue and green”

Brian Scudamore Jan 1, 2020 ▶ 0:52 1621 The Unique Way He Plans to Go from $312 Million to $1 Billion