Ian Myers

Founder & CEO, Oceans · 1 appearance on the record.

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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.

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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
I Quit My Job & Accidentally Built A $10M Business Mar 8, 2025 14m
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