Josh James is an American entrepreneur, founder and former

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of Domo, a

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(SaaS) company. He was co-founder and CEO of

Omniture Omniture is an online marketing and web analytics business unit in Orem, Utah. It was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2009. Until 2011, Omniture operated as a business unit within Adobe as the "Omniture Business Unit", but as of 2012 Adobe began ret ...

, a

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company.

Career

James attended

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into his senior year, but did not graduate. Before co-founding

, James co-founded an interactive agency and two other businesses, which were subsequently sold to

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(formerly known as Jupitermedia) and

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. James founded

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, a private-sector initiative that promotes the interests of the high-tech industry in

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. James took Omniture public on the Nasdaq in 2006. In 2009 he sold the company to

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for US$1.8 billion. From 2006 to 2009 – the three years that Omniture was public – James was the youngest CEO of a

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-traded company. James rang the bell of the Nasdaq as Domo went public in 2018. He sits on the Parity.org Board of Advisors.

Honors and awards

In 2017 and 2018 his company, Domo, landed on the Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 lists of the fastest growing companies in North America. In 2018, Domo was named a Best Companies to Work For by Utah Business Magazine for the 7th consecutive year. James was named to Utah Valley BusinessQ's Hall of Fame. In 2017, his company was named a CNBC Disruptor 50 and in 2015, it was named a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer. In 2012, Mountain West Capital Network named James Entrepreneur of the Year. On June 27, 2012, James and Domo, Inc. received the ''Utah Valley Business Q'' "2012 UV50 TOP 10 Startups To Watch" award. 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 received the 2006

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Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was named Technology Entrepreneur of the Decade by

. On November 30, 2012, James was inducted into the Utah Technology Hall of Fame.

Personal

James had roles as a child actor, which included appearing in episodes of ''

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'' and in a Kellogg's Honey Smacks breakfast cereal commercial.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:James, Josh Living people 21st-century American businesspeople 1973 births American Mormon missionaries in Japan Brigham Young University alumni 20th-century Mormon missionaries Latter Day Saints from Utah