James Evans

James Evans began his career at Bain Capital doing private equity investments in software companies. He then became co-founder / CEO at Command AI, a startup that provides AI-powered user assistance to make software easier to use. Command AI was recently acquired by leading digital analytics platform Amplitude, where James is a Director leading Amplitude’s user assistance and AI work. He studied computer science at Princeton.

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Entrepreneurial advice: don’t create categories – disrupt them

For ages, founders have strived to create products so innovative that they spawn entirely new business categories. As a founder though, I believe that attempting to create new business categories from scratch is much more arduous, and potentially disastrous, than focusing on building great products that disrupt existing ones.