Leadership Advice from the CEO of a Billion Dollar Company | Derick Cooper | EP 417

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson speaks with the CEO of QOL Medical, Derick Cooper. They discuss how immunological systems confront pathogens and store information, the trait most associated with entrepreneurial success, the complicated patterns of behavior that scale from cellular interaction to metaphysics, and how a spirit of reciprocity can be utilized to uplift the individual as well as the community, society, and upward. Derick Cooper is the Chief Executive Officer of QOL Medical, LLC, a large, private specialty biopharmaceutical company that makes drugs and biologics for rare diseases. QOL is a commercial stage company founded in 2003 with fully integrated capabilities ranging from sales and marketing to drug development to bioprocess-based manufacturing. Prior to 2010, Cooper spent 16 years in investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, corporate finance, and operations with The Robinson-Humphrey Company in Atlanta, as a portfolio manager with Sirrom Capital, formerly the largest mezzanine lender in the US, and with CooperSmith, formerly the largest independent baked foods company in the US. This Episode was recorded on December 30th, 2023 Dr. Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://bit.ly/3KrWbS8 - Sponsors - Birch Gold: Text "JORDAN" to 989898 for your no-cost, no-obligation, FREE information kit. Mizzen & Main: Get 25% off your purchase of $130 or more at https://www.MizzenandMain.com promo code Jordan. - Links - 2024 tour details can be found here https://jordanbpeterson.com/events Peterson Academy https://petersonacademy.com/ For Derick Cooper: On X https://twitter.com/derick_cooper5 QOL Medical website www.qolmed.com - Chapters - (0:00) 2024 tour update (40:00) Coming up (1:08) Intro (4:32) Ralston College (6:15) Treating rare diseases (7:29) How many people have rare diseases? (11:56) Disparate traits, and how they come together (18:49) Seeking chaos (20:44) When not to be open minded (24:22) Figuring out which goal to go after (26:20) Balancing time between bad and good employees (31:32) Competence and specialization (32:52) Managing diverse temperaments (41:17) From baked goods to investment banking (48:44) The propagation of employees at the expense of progress (52:41) The ethics of profit, iterative exchanges (1:01:37) Sapolsky, the reciprocity bank (1:02:29) Investment, reputation, and the proper embodiment of ethics (1:06:11) Having a clear goal is essential (1:10:43) Zebras and lions, hierarchal systems at play (1:14:13) “True enough,” how the immunological system adapts to a target (1:25:09) Applying “true enough” to human thought and the importance of stories (1:31:37) Postmodernist bees (1:40:18) Its near impossible to find your calling if you never go on an adventure (1:46:17) Disparate expertise, and “left brain” specialization (1:47:51) How the classics conserve cultural homogeneity (1:53:31) God must transcend different temperaments and worldviews (1:55:13) Is chaos a prey response? // LINKS // All links: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson Website: https://jordanbpeterson.com Tour Locations: https://jordanbpeterson.com/events X: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson Instagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.peterson Facebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpeterson Telegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPeterson Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.com/youtubesignup // COURSES // Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personality Self Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.com Understand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com // BOOKS // Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-meaning #JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus