Matthew Yaes

Founder and CEO, Extend Your Team · 1 appearance on the record.

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Matthew Yahes is an entrepreneur who founded Extend Your Team, a remote staffing and virtual assistant agency that places offshore professionals with businesses looking to scale. Prior to establishing his staffing agency, he spent over two decades in business and operations, including founding and managing a restaurant chain and an e-commerce portfolio.

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Insight

Yaes: Filipino offshore teams operate in a hierarchical 'boss is God' culture

“When I talk to my team, it's there in a I'm boss, I'm God culture, and you have to really pull things out of them.”

Matthew Yaes May 23, 2025 ▶ 9:53 He Let a Filipino Team Run His 7-Figure Agency for 2.5 Years

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Yaes: Remote Philippine Team Ran Staffing Agency For 2.5 Years

“So I had that business run on its own for Two and a half years, I would say, while I was involved in a financial technology company, which I got involved in because of my staffing business, that financial technology company scaled massively. It was a point in …”

Matthew Yaes May 23, 2025 ▶ 7:30 He Let a Filipino Team Run His 7-Figure Agency for 2.5 Years

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Yahes: A single Filipino manager autonomously ran his $5.5M e-commerce business

“Specifically one person that was running the e-com, I said to her, everyone is always fascinated that I found some of the Philippines to fully run a business at the time is doing, I think five and a half million dollars where I was not involved in the operatio…”

Matthew Yaes May 23, 2025 ▶ 6:23 He Let a Filipino Team Run His 7-Figure Agency for 2.5 Years

Insight

Yaes: Scaling Offshore Agencies Requires American Executives to Close US Clients

“And it made more sense to have an American who also has inroads with businesses in the United States. So understands the psyche, understands what they need and understands how to talk to the business people at a very high level.”

Matthew Yaes May 23, 2025 ▶ 10:58 He Let a Filipino Team Run His 7-Figure Agency for 2.5 Years

Insight

Yaes: Requiring refundable upfront deposits filters out unserious clients

“It's also a good customer filtering tool. Someone can't give you, it was 350 dollars, right? For something that's two to 3000 a month for, you know, full-time staff. If you can't deposit a couple hundred dollars, well, you're going to get the money back. You'r…”

Matthew Yaes May 23, 2025 ▶ 22:31 He Let a Filipino Team Run His 7-Figure Agency for 2.5 Years

Insight

Yaes: AI cannot replace system architecture thinking, only accelerate testing

“In my opinion, it's not going to rep yet. It's not going to replace the thought process of how you think something should work, but it certainly makes it much quicker to figure it all out and test it right away.”

Matthew Yaes May 23, 2025 ▶ 26:00 He Let a Filipino Team Run His 7-Figure Agency for 2.5 Years

Opinion

Yahes: Many people pursue entrepreneurship because it is thrust upon them

“And I bet you, there are a lot of people who are. Just like us who maybe wanted to be an entrepreneur, but it was kind of thrust upon them, right? Where you said sink or swim, buddy, what are you going to do? Sit there and cry. Get after it.”

Matthew Yaes May 23, 2025 ▶ 3:17 He Let a Filipino Team Run His 7-Figure Agency for 2.5 Years

Disclosure

Yahes: Staffing agency paid ads generate high clicks but zero calls

“In this case, my, I've advertised a ton. The click through rates are very good, but the book a call rate is non-existent.”

Matthew Yaes May 23, 2025 ▶ 12:48 He Let a Filipino Team Run His 7-Figure Agency for 2.5 Years

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Yahes: Scaled restaurant chain to 14 locations before bad investment forced exit

“We had 14 locations in four years from concept, but once we took the bad money, things, I left and things just didn't go the way they should have.”

Matthew Yaes May 23, 2025 ▶ 4:17 He Let a Filipino Team Run His 7-Figure Agency for 2.5 Years

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Yahes: Multimillion-dollar wedding e-commerce portfolio collapsed to zero during COVID-19

“So what was a multimillion dollar business became I like to say I grew it to zero. Wasn't exactly zero, but it didn't make sense to keep it open and it wasn't profitable when you start factoring in people and advertising.”

Matthew Yaes May 23, 2025 ▶ 5:56 He Let a Filipino Team Run His 7-Figure Agency for 2.5 Years

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
He Let a Filipino Team Run His 7-Figure Agency for 2.5 Years	May 23, 2025	15m

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