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

Want a World-Class COO? Hire a Freakin’ Execution Machine | (Podcast 498)

7 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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This is a YouTube video titled "Want a World-Class COO? Hire a Freakin’ Execution Machine | (Podcast 498)" containing a monologue or single-speaker segment recorded in August 2025. The speaker reflects on the qualities needed in a CEO, emphasizing detail orientation, data understanding, and execution skills, and shares personal insights about learning, risk-taking, and enjoying the challenges of a COO role. There is no indication that Cameron Herold is a participant in this content.

I personally think when somebody asks me, oh, I'm looking for a CEO, what do you think I should look for in that person? My answer is someone who's very details oriented, who really understands data, like, and, and is a good executor. And I think those are what my, you know, co founder already knew about me. And he actually told me that like, you're good at these things. So you, you know, I would want you to be serving this role. But even then I was like, oh my God, what am I getting to. But with me and my personality, it's always been about, you know, I'm going to take a risk, you know, I'm not going to lose anything, I'm just going to see how much I'm going to like it or not. So my learning is basically been, you know, over time, what is the next problem I need to go solve or I need to go pay attention to? Do I know enough about it? Who do I need to go talk to to learn more? How do I go online? And for me it's again, it's always about learning and how much you love doing something. And I truly like, been enjoying being in this role and kind of having to do so many different things and pay attention to so many different things, that's also been really challenging for me and that's what gets me going.