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Ian Myers

Founder & CEO, Oceans. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Ian Myers is the founder and CEO of Oceans, an outsourcing firm pairing offshore operational talent with startups. Prior to bootstrapping Oceans to an eight-figure business, he worked in venture capital at White Star Capital and previously launched and sold a mobile app startup.

What they said8 Shows1

Everything Ian Myers said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

STARTER STORY Insight

Myers: Niche vertical specialization makes reaching $1M-$2M in revenue easy

“Specializing in a vertical where you're going to be talked about, it's easy to get to one to two million dollars in revenue doing that.”

Ian Myers Mar 8, 2025 ▶ 7:08 I Quit My Job & Accidentally Built A $10M Business

STARTER STORY Disclosure

Myers: Oceans does not hire candidates with prior EA experience

“We don't hire people that have been EAs before. We hire people that have had really unique operational backgrounds that are really smart and really intelligent.”

Ian Myers Mar 8, 2025 ▶ 15:21 I Quit My Job & Accidentally Built A $10M Business

STARTER STORY Insight

Myers: If an Entrepreneur Cannot Step Away, They Built a Bad Business

“I think there's a stigma around entrepreneurs doing things that aren't related to their company, and I'm like, if that's true, you have a shitty business. If you can't do the things you want to do, if you can't step away and be like, Man, I'm able to read the …”

Ian Myers Mar 8, 2025 ▶ 16:39 I Quit My Job & Accidentally Built A $10M Business

STARTER STORY Assertion Partly supported

Myers: Google and Microsoft each employ 120,000 offshore workers

“Google has like a 180,000 FTEs around the world. They have a 120,000 people offshore. Microsoft, same ratio.”

Ian Myers Mar 8, 2025 ▶ 5:13 I Quit My Job & Accidentally Built A $10M Business

STARTER STORY Insight

Myers: You can run an entire company's dashboard in Google Sheets

“I think that what you can get done in Google Sheets is incredible, and people should go on YouTube and realize you can run an entire company's dashboard in Google Sheets.”

Ian Myers Mar 8, 2025 ▶ 12:51 I Quit My Job & Accidentally Built A $10M Business

STARTER STORY Assertion Not checkable as stated

Myers: Oceans Reached Roughly $15M in Annual Revenue

“Last year we closed at about fifteen million in revenue, so it's just been up, up, up, and it's very profitable.”

Ian Myers Mar 8, 2025 ▶ 2:06 I Quit My Job & Accidentally Built A $10M Business

STARTER STORY Disclosure

Myers: Oceans hires 30 to 40 people per month

“We hire three, 30 to 40 people a month.”

Ian Myers Mar 8, 2025 ▶ 14:18 I Quit My Job & Accidentally Built A $10M Business

STARTER STORY Disclosure

Myers: Oceans Charges $3,000 to $4,000 Monthly Per Headcount

“We charge around three to 4000 dollars a month per headcount.”

Ian Myers Mar 8, 2025 ▶ 2:38 I Quit My Job & Accidentally Built A $10M Business

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ian's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
STARTER STORYLEDGER	Founder & CEO, Oceans	1	8	0% 0/1	full record on Starter Story →