James Grierson
About James Grierson
As the CEO of Jetpack, an Automattic company, I lead a subscription based SaaS business building cloud services for the WordPress ecosystem. With a fully distributed workforce spanning multiple countries, I foster a culture of personal empowerment and trust. I believe in a people centric leadership approach, recognizing and leveraging each team member's unique strengths to further their own success and that of the organization. Previously, I led Bluehost as both CEO and COO, and managed a 250M+ P&L and 850+ employees across multiple locations. I advise pre-series B startups in their early stages of product market fit on strategic planning, recurring revenue growth and effectively scaling their team and operations. I’ve mentored multiple startups from bootstrapped ideas to capital raises between $2-10M. As an entrepreneur, I co-founded and exited a SaaS business in under two years with over 1M active users.