May 25, 2020
Only two years removed from solitary confinement in jail, James
Purpura began his journey into the tech world. In 2007, he took a
chance on a small construction software startup called PlanSwift.
He quickly ascended to Vice President of Sales and then, a year
later, took over as President and became an equity partner is the
company. Under James’ leadership, PlanSwift grew from $8,000 a
month in volume to over $1,000,000 a month in volume and over
50,000 customers in 24 countries, becoming one of the most
well-known and largest technology companies in the construction
industry. In 2013, James led the M & A process to sell PlanSwift to
a firm outside of Chicago called Textura. Shortly after joining
Textura, James helped the company go public. Over the next few
years, James ran four different business units at Textura and
played an instrumental role in facilitating a $650 million exit of
Textura to Oracle. James spent six months working as a Vice
President at Oracle before negotiating the purchase of his original
business, PlanSwift, back from Oracle. Again at the helm of
PlanSwift, James quickly led the company to generate sufficient
revenue to repay the purchasing costs, positioning PlanSwift as an
attractive acquisition target. With PlanSwift firmly established,
James negotiated a lucrative sale to a large competitor, allowing
him to exit and pursue his dream of creating the world’s first
personal evolution company Powerful U.
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