👋 I’m James W. LePage – Founder, builder, tinkerer.
Welcome to the personal website of James LePage. I am a digital founder, developer, designer, and generalist. Currently, I’m leading AI at Automattic, the makers of WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Tumblr, and more. I blog about what I do here.
Before this, I cofounded several venture-backed companies and experimented online until something worked. WPAI, acquired by Automattic, was my most recent venture. Founded in 2022, it focused on building AI solutions for WordPress1, including one of the first autonomous AI agents for the web, an AI IDE focused on WordPress, and a ChatGPT alternative… for WordPress.
You win, or you learn.
Before that, I was the technical co-founder of ShareClub, a venture-backed shareholder rewards platform.
It facilitated the distribution of in-kind rewards from public companies to individual shareholders. For example, if you invested in Acme Inc and held for 1 month, you could claim a $100 gift card2 every year from that company.
Prior to ShareClub, I studied entrepreneurship and AI at Syracuse University, and ran Isotropic, a digital agency, for 4+ years. At Isotropic, we built large ecommerce sites3 (our largest client had $28M+ ARR in D2C wellness product subscriptions), digital magazines, and critical marketing sites for public companies.
Curriculum Vitae
Automattic
WordPress.org Core AI Team
WPAI
ShareClub
IsotropicNot pictured: Cook at Campfire, Stock Analysis Writer at WappCap and Seeking Alpha, Leasing Agent at Kaufman, Federally Licensed Radio Operator (KD2DVF), Eagle Scout
What I’m
Listening To
This used to sync from Spotify,
but now I use Apple Music
And a lot more random stuff from crate digging.
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What I’m
Reading
Hover over each book,
this syncs from a private CPT
Press
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