Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

R&D = Rip Off & Duplicate (Steal THIS Strategy to Win Faster!) #researchanddevelopment

1 May 2025 · 1 min

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Cameron Herold recounts advice from his father that R&D should mean “rip off and duplicate”: rather than trying to invent everything yourself, study successful companies and people, copy proven practices, and aggressively consume books, videos, and mentors to build desired skills. He urges applying this imitation-driven learning to one’s career and personal development (example: health/biohacking).

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My dad was an entrepreneur. Both of my grandfathers were entrepreneurs. My dad said to me when I was 16, you're never going to be smart enough to figure this out on your own. Your R and D has to stand for rip off and duplicate. There's thousands of companies that have already figured out anything you're trying to figure out. Just do what they're doing. But if you know that those 12 skills are things that you want to get better at, then go find the people and find the books and find the videos and start devouring that content and do whatever you can to devour that content, like we're doing with health or with biohacking. Do the same with your career.