Ocean Supply
Sneaker arbitrage, my first real operation.
The story
Ocean Supply is where the ocean theme on this whole site comes from, but the story starts before it. My first real business was selling candy out of my bunk at sleepaway camp, buying the giant combo packs at Target with my dad before each summer and reselling them to the other campers. My first actual job was washing dishes at a local supermarket, up at six every Saturday and Sunday for about four years. It taught me one thing very clearly: I never wanted to make money with my hands again.
So at 16 I moved to sneakers. My friend Peter was already a serious reseller, and he taught me brick arbitrage. I would buy 20 to 50 pairs of low-cost sneakers a week and flip them for $10 to $20 a pair, sourcing drops and discount codes from a stack of Discord servers, some of which I paid to get into. It was arbitrage in the most literal sense: buy mispriced, sell into demand.
The real lesson was that the edge was never the shoe, it was the signal: knowing which codes and which drops actually mattered before everyone else did. That insight still runs through everything I build. And at 18, when I realized I would rather help a thousand people make money than keep flipping shoes myself, Ocean Supply became Profit Paradise.
The arbitrage loop
The whole business was one loop, run every week from the age of 16. The edge was never the shoe. It was the signal: knowing what was mispriced before anyone else did.
A private network of sourcing signals on what was about to be mispriced.
20 to 50 pairs a week, bought below market.
$10 to $20 of profit on every pair.
Compound the float and run it again.
The flips
Real pairs that moved through the operation, straight off the Ocean Supply feed.
Key numbers
- Weekly volume
- 20 to 50 pairs
- Margin per pair
- $10 to $20
- Age started
- 16
What this taught me
- The edge was the signal, not the shoe. I learned early that information asymmetry, knowing which discount codes and drops mattered, was the actual business.
- Arbitrage is a simple form of edge. Buy mispriced, sell into demand. That logic still runs through everything I build.
- Starting at 16 taught me that you don't need permission or credentials to build a real operation.