Seahawk Media Formation
Ryan James forms Seahawk Media in Boston, built to fill the gap he found in GoDaddy Pro: white-label pro services that web hosts can trust, scale and offer to their customers.
Seahawk started in 2015 in a dorm room in Wilmington, North Carolina, as Seahawk Media Group, a small local agency.
Founder Ryan James discovered WordPress and, on April 12, 2016, joined GoDaddy Pro, Seahawk’s unofficial founding date. That is where he found the gap Seahawk was built to fill: web hosts needed fully white-label pro services they could trust, scale and offer to their customers.
In 2018 Ryan moved the business to Boston and formed Seahawk Media Group, LLC in Massachusetts. Being a perfectionist, he soon amended the name to drop the “Group”, and the company became Seahawk Media, LLC.
On February 15, 2019, seahawkmedia.com changed hands. Seahawk had been at seahawkmediagroup.com and wanted something shorter, and the college professor who owned seahawkmedia.com was kind enough to give it to Seahawk.
The GoDaddy Pro program also brought Ryan and Gautam Khorana together. GoDaddy Pro India had named Gautam its Bijness Bhai Pro of the Month, and Ryan reached out to him on Instagram. Gautam owned The SiteCook. The two worked together for a short period, then on March 1, 2019 Seahawk acquired The SiteCook to form Seahawk Global.
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The seahawk has been Seahawk’s mark from day one. Its story, from the 2015 square to today’s mark, is told in Seahawk’s First Professional Rebrand.
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