Co-Founded by a Founder and His Former EA

One Built an 8-Figure Company. The Other Was the EA Who Helped Him Do It.

Kasim Aslam hired Ivan Bunin for $1,200/month from a freelancer site. Ivan went from executive assistant to CTO, helped sell the company, and became Kasim's partner. Then they built the system that makes that trajectory repeatable.

Kasim Aslam and Ivan Bunin, co-founders of Pareto Talent
$1M+
Revenue
in Year 1
100+
Founders
Served
93%
EA Retention
at 12 Months
$0
Spent on Ads
100% Referral
Why We Built This

Two Sides. One Broken Industry.

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Kasim's Side: The Founder

15 years of hiring EAs. Dozens of failures. Always the same pattern: hire someone, give them tasks, wonder why they can't think ahead, start doing everything yourself again. Built Solutions 8 to #1 Google Ads agency worldwide with nearly 100 employees — but kept hitting the same wall with every assistant until he found one who was different.

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Ivan's Side: The EA

Started at 18 for $1,200/month. No playbook, no training program, no support system. Went from managing an inbox to managing an entire company's technology — then managed the due diligence for an 8-figure acquisition. The question that haunted him: why did I have to figure this out alone? What if there was a system?

Ivan watching Kasim speak on stage

Ivan in the audience while Kasim speaks on stage — years before becoming partners.

"We didn't build another staffing agency. We built the program we both wish had existed — one that trains the EA and trains the founder."

What Makes Us Different

Three Beliefs That Shape Everything We Do

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People Are Not Commodities

Most agencies treat EAs as interchangeable parts. We don't. It takes 650+ applicants to produce one Right Hand. We pay above domestic rates. Our EAs work from home on flexible schedules doing meaningful work. When both sides win, the results compound.

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We Train Both Sides

The reason most EA placements fail isn't the EA — it's that no one trains the founder how to delegate. The Right Hand Program trains your EA AND gives you a weekly founder community to master the skill of leverage.

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We Eat Our Own Cooking

Kasim has 3 EAs from Pareto. Ivan's EA Ampy was the very first internal hire. We use the exact same system our clients use — and we'd never sell something we don't run ourselves.

The Journey

From $1,200/Month to $1M in Year One

2018
Kasim hires Ivan on Freelancer.com for $1,200/month
Solutions 8 had 6 employees. Ivan's first job.
2018–2022
Ivan rises from EA to Tech Lead to CTO
Scaled Solutions 8 to 200+ clients, #1 Google Ads agency worldwide
2022
8-figure exit — Solutions 8 acquired
Ivan managed the entire financial and operational due diligence
Late 2023
A failed startup leads to "paretotalent.com" in Kasim's domain list
After a self-storage pivot stalled, they found their real calling
April 2024
First EA graduated. First client: Tim Bratton.
30-minute call lasted 2.5 hours. $2,097 total startup cost.
May 2025
$1M in revenue. Celebrated in Lake Como, Italy.
Zero ads. 100% word-of-mouth. Kasim's 6th million-dollar business. Ivan's first — at 27.
Today
100+ founders served. Building toward 1,000.
93% retention at 12 months. Every client came from a referral.
🌱 The Mission

1,000 Founders. 1,000 Right Hands.

We're on a mission to place 1,000 executive assistants with founders — to help entrepreneurs stop being the bottleneck in their own businesses, and to give talented people around the world the same opportunity Ivan got when Kasim took a chance on a 18-year-old from a freelancer site.

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For Founders

Stop doing everything yourself. Get the right person, the right delegation training, and the right system — so you can focus on the work only you can do.

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For Assistants

Get the same chance Ivan got. Meaningful work with a real entrepreneur. Ongoing training. A community of 250+ peers. The tools and support to turn an EA role into a career trajectory.

The Pareto Talent team

The Pareto Talent team — assistants, success managers, and the people behind your Right Hand.

🎥 Hear It From Us

The Unfiltered $1M Conversation

Recorded on the veranda of Lake Como after hitting $1M. Every mistake, every win, every lesson — nothing held back.

This Is the System We Wish Had Existed When We Were Scaling

100+ founders are using it. Your Right Hand is already trained and waiting.

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