- Ocean Ronquillo-Morgan has founded an e-commerce brand, a coaching startup, and a marketing agency.
- In May, the 24-year-old booked $10,000 in revenue through her three side hustles.
- Here’s how she balances life as an entrepreneur, while maintaining a 9-to-5 job.
Ocean Ronquillo-Morgan spent her middle-school years building a community on YouTube of more than 65,000 subscribers who tuned in to watch her video-game streams.
But at the age of 18, and after earning thousands of dollars off the platform over the course of four years, she quit to focus on applying to colleges. But that entrepreneurial spirit stuck with her.
Today, Ronquillo-Morgan, 24, is a University of Southern California graduate, a Fortune 500 software engineer at Accenture, and the founder of multiple side-hustle ventures. In the second quarter, her businesses booked just over $10,000 in monthly revenue combined — a number that’s been steadily rising since she started them in 2021 — according to documents verified by Insider.
“I’ve always had this drive of more than just learn, go to college, get a job,” Ronquillo-Morgan said. “I really want to find problems and help solve them.”
She launched her first side hustle, an e-commerce clothing brand called Geistwear, with a USC classmate in 2018. In March 2020, she founded a digital-marketing agency called Kaivent Media, which aimed to help small businesses in her area navigate the pandemic by building their online storefronts. She landed her first client, and a $5,000 contract, without experience or testimonials.
Since then, Ronquillo-Morgan has launched her third venture — a coaching program geared toward helping others build digital businesses, which has a freelance starter pack for $10, a LinkedIn e-book guide for $40, and one-on-one coaching sessions, among other offerings.
Ronquillo-Morgan said she now earned more from her three side hustles than from her full-time job but loved balancing all four. Here, she shares a day in her life and explains how she balances her busy schedule, including her full-time corporate job and three side hustles.