WE HIT 100 CLIENTS! I Flew 80 EAs to Buenos Aires

We hit 100 executive assistants placed with $1M+ entrepreneurs. To celebrate, I flew 80 of our EAs to Buenos Aires for our two-year anniversary party — and our second-ever in-person Pareto Talent event. This is episode 1 of the Road to 1,000 — the public journey of building Pareto Talent from 100 placements to 1,000. Subscribe if you want to follow the climb. Two years ago, I had zero clients. My business partner Kasim and I had run exactly one bootcamp, hired exactly one assistant (Ampi), and bootstrapped the whole thing with $1,000 in Facebook ads. Today: 100 EAs placed, $250K/month in revenue, $1M+ paid in salaries to Latin America, 6 bootcamps run, 2,000+ people trained, 93% of our placed assistants still working with the same entrepreneur 12 months later. What we're building isn't a staffing agency. It's a community. The EAs we place don't just get a job — they get other EAs they can ask for help, a TSM team that has their back, a vetted body of knowledge that grows with every bootcamp. That's why retention is 93%, that's why entrepreneurs keep coming back, and that's why I just paid to fly 80 people to Buenos Aires for a party. The next 900 placements are documented here, video by video. 0:00 — Why I'm going to Buenos Aires (with the family) 1:20 — Date night at the only 2-Michelin-star restaurant in Argentina 3:00 — Setting up the party for 80 EAs 4:00 — Meeting EAs who thought Pareto Talent was a scam 5:00 — The awards ceremony 8:00 — Testimonials from the Pareto Talent community 14:00 — Why we're building community, not just placing assistants 17:30 — Ferry home: two years ago I couldn't find Uruguay on the map ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About me I’m Ivan Bunin. I didn’t start as a founder. I started at $1K a month as an executive assistant, responsible for the details that keep a business running: managing inboxes, calendars, client communication, and making sure nothing fell through the cracks. Over time, I helped scale a fast-growing agency through an 8-figure exit. And then I co-founded Pareto Talent, which we grew from $0 to $1M in a year, not by grinding harder, but by building systems and turning executive assistants into real leverage for founders. This channel isn’t polished advice. It’s the real entrepreneur journey. The pressure. The long days. The bottlenecks. The small decisions that can have a huge impact. The moments where I realize I’m the constraint, and have to rebuild the system around me. If you’re building something real and you’re tired of surface-level business content, you’re in the right place. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Connect with me LinkedIn:   / 4bunin   TikTok:   / 4bunin   Facebook:   / 4bunin   Instagram:   / 4bunin