Derek Fredrickson

Founder and CEO, The COO Solution · 1 appearance on the record.

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Derek Fredrickson provides fractional COO services and operational leadership frameworks to help founder-led companies scale efficiently. Prior to founding The COO Solution, he spent over 15 years serving as Chief Operating Officer at Boldheart following an early career on Wall Street.

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Fredrickson: Fractional COOs work up to $25M in annual revenue

“In my experience, Fractional can work all the way up to about 20 to twenty-five million in annual revenue. Anything above that range in our experience, the idea of fractional starts to spread too thin. You really need a full-time operator at that scale of a co…”

Derek Fredrickson Aug 25, 2026 ▶ 3:03 Would You Rather Be a CEO or COO?

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Fredrickson: Sub-$1M revenue businesses do not need a COO

“I know there's a lot of companies out there that are trying to break that seven figure threshold and we applaud them and celebrate them, but they often say, I want a COO, but in reality, you don't really need a COO. What you really need is just to do more of w…”

Derek Fredrickson Aug 25, 2026 ▶ 3:33 Would You Rather Be a CEO or COO?

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Fredrickson: Founders Can Delegate 80% of Delivery Like Dentists Use Hygienists

“So for them to feel like they can step out in some way, it doesn't have to be black and white, all or nothing. It could be somebody else bringing a mini me, bringing somebody that could do 80% and you bring in the 20%, right? It's kind of like the dentist visi…”

Derek Fredrickson Aug 25, 2026 ▶ 9:29 Would You Rather Be a CEO or COO?

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Fredrickson: Most clients fail to track metrics and KPIs with accountability

“Pretty much within the first 3060 days with every single client, as you know, we do a deep dive, we assess, I always say, open the hood of the business, what's working, what's not, and oftentimes what's not there or not working is that they don't know their nu…”

Derek Fredrickson Aug 25, 2026 ▶ 28:11 Would You Rather Be a CEO or COO?

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Fredrickson: Team accountability conversations matter more than AI data collection

“AI did the heavy lifting to put the number on the table to have the conversation. But the conversation is the thing that's actually more important than the number.”

Derek Fredrickson Aug 25, 2026 ▶ 29:53 Would You Rather Be a CEO or COO?

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Fredrickson: CEO is harder than COO due to ultimate risk and ownership

“I would say at the end of the day, I would say the CEO is the harder role primarily because they're carrying the risk, right? It's their business. It's their company. At the end of the day, they're responsible for the growth, the scale, the vision. They own th…”

Derek Fredrickson Aug 25, 2026 ▶ 0:34 Would You Rather Be a CEO or COO?

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Would You Rather Be a CEO or COO?	Aug 25, 2026	19m

Derek Fredrickson

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