Ever wonder why 70% of million-dollar businesses never reach ten million? The brutal truth is that the scrappy hustle that built your company is now choking it to death.
In this game-changing episode, we sit down with Derek Fredrickson, founder and CEO of The COO Solution, who reveals why founders become their own worst enemy once they hit seven figures. Discover the uncomfortable reality that your biggest strengths are secretly your biggest weaknesses, learn when to stop being the hero of every story, and find out how to build systems that actually work without losing your entrepreneurial soul. This isn't about working harder—it's about working completely differently.
Derek breaks down the visionary-integrator partnership that separates scaling winners from plateau prisoners, plus the exact moment you need to start thinking like a CEO instead of a scrappy startup founder.
Keywords: operational scaling, business systems, fractional COO, visionary integrator, EOS traction, business bottlenecks, Derek Fredrickson
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