Career
He started the company as Shacho (which means Chief Executive Officer in Japanese) and two months later bought a company named Corda based in Lindon, Utah to jump start the visualization component of the product. In 2011, he rebranded Shacho to Domo, which means Thank You in Japanese. As of April 15, he raised $450 million in funding from Benchmark Capital, Blackrock, IVP, Greylock, GGV Capital, Founders Fund, T.Rowe Price and a number of other high-profile Silicon Valley venture capital firms and investors.
James previously co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Omniture, a web analytics company.
On his 33rd birthday, James rang the bell of the New York Stock Exchange as Omniture went public in 2006 and later sold the company to Adobe in 2009 for United States dollar $1.8 billion. From 2006 to 2009, the three years that Omniture was public, James was the youngest Chief Executive Officer of a Nasdaq or New York Stock Exchange-traded company.
Omniture was one of the top performing IPOs in 2006 and the number one returning venture investment out of 1,008 venture capital investments in 2004. James served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Omniture Business Unit at Adobe until July 2010.
In 2012, Mountain West Capital Network named James its Entrepreneur of the Year.
James was featured as #26 on Fortune 40 under 40 in 2009 and #1 on Fortune 40 under 40 "Ones to Watch" in 2011. He was also recognized as Mountain West Capital"s 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year. James maintains a list of entrepreneurial advice for startup companies.
He serves as a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum.
He also serves on the board of Rakuten, a publicly traded, five billion dollar revenue company that is one of largest e-commerce companies in Japan. Before co-founding Omniture James co-founded an interactive agency and two other businesses, which were subsequently sold to WebMediaBrands (formerly known as Jupitermedia) and Verisign.
James founded Silicon Slopes, a private-sector initiative that promotes the interests of the high-tech industry in Utah. He attended Brigham Young University into his senior year, but did not graduate.
James is the oldest of six children.
His father was an airline pilot and colonel in the Marines. He moved 17 times growing up. He had roles as a child actor, which included appearing in episodes of Touched by an Angel and in a Kellogg"s Honey Smacks commercial.
