Josh James is an American

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...

founder Founder or Founders may refer to: Places *Founders Park, a stadium in South Carolina, formerly known as Carolina Stadium * Founders Park, a waterside park in Islamorada, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media * Founders (''Star Trek''), the ali ...

and former

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Domo Domo may refer to: * Domo (company), American software company which specializes in business intelligence software * Domo (NHK), the mascot of Japan's NHK television station ** '' Domo TV'', a television series featuring NHK's character * Domo (c ...

, a

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(SaaS) company. He also previously co-founded and served as

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 re ...

, a

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company.

Career

James attended

Brigham Young University Brigham Young University (BYU, sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...

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

WebMediaBrands Mecklermedia (formerly Internet.com LLC, Jupitermedia Inc., Mediabistro Inc. and WebMediaBrands Corporation) was a U.S.-based corporation. The original WebMediaBrands was established in 1994, and headquartered in New York. Founded by Alan M. ...

(formerly known as Jupitermedia) and

Verisign Verisign Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, United States that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the , , and gene ...

. James founded

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, a private-sector initiative that promotes the interests of the

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Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to its ...

. 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 is the oldest of six children and moved frequently growing up due to his father's occupation in the military and in aviation. James served a two-year

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for

the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is a nontrinitarian Christian church that considers itself to be the restoration of the original church founded by Jesus Christ. The ...

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

Touched by an Angel ''Touched by an Angel'' is an American fantasy drama television series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994, and ran for 211 episodes over nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and executive produced ...

'' 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 Mormon missionaries in Japan 20th-century Mormon missionaries Latter Day Saints from Utah