James Pember.

Senior product executive and two-time founder with 10+ years experience building SaaS businesses. Currently Chief Product Officer at Komo Technologies, where I lead product, strategy, and AI initiatives.

About me

Location
Perth, Western Australia
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Perth, WA
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Work
Chief Product Officer @ Komo Technologies
Chief Product Officer
Komo Technologies
Komo is a martech platform that helps the world's biggest brands run more effective customer engagement.
Writing
jamespember.substack.com
Code
github.com/jamespember

I'm a senior product leader and two-time founder with 10+ years in SaaS. Currently Chief Product Officer at Komo Technologies where I lead product, strategy, and AI initiatives.

Before Komo, I started Sweden's biggest English-language startup blog (Swedish Startup Space), which had tens of thousands of weekly readers, and later sold it to a media company called Breakit. Then I co-founded an enterprise SaaS company called Sparta which was acquired by Lime Technologies (STO:LIME). After that I helped Reason Studios move from perpetual licenses to subscriptions, leading the launch of Reason+ and scaling it from $0 to $10M in ARR.

Outside of work, I am one of the core contributors to Build AustraliaBuild AustraliaBuild Australia is a movement and mindset shift to shake this country out of stagnation. Our mission is to reignite Australian industry, creativity, and ambition. which is a not-for-profit designed to advocate for Australian entrepreneurship, optimism and ambition.

I love writing about technology, startups and product on my blog and try to keep my knowledge fresh and up-to-date by tinkering with as many side-projects as I can on the side. Currently I'm building a lot of personal software and tools using AI coding agents. See some of them on my projects page.

Things I believe

  • "The life of a pessimist is easy but dreary. The life of an optimist is hard but exciting."1
    Steph Ango
    Optimism
  • "Being easy to work with is an underrated skill."
  • "All returns in life come from compound interest in long-term games."2
    Naval Ravikant
    Play Long-term Games