James Anderson
Founder & Creative Director, Our Life’s Work. Built Thinkspace at 15. Featured in BBC World News, The Times, Forbes. Speaker at Cannes Lions, TEDxTeen, University of Oxford.
- Role
- Founder & Creative Director at Our Life\'s Work
- Location
- West Hollywood, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About James Anderson
James Anderson is a British-American entrepreneur and the Founder & Creative Director of Our Life\'s Work, a Los Angeles-based design and technology studio. The studio collaborates with clients ranging from venture-backed startups to American institutions such as the US Open and Penn State Athletics.As employee #1 at Lapse, James built the iOS app that attracted 150k users within 24 hours, reached #1 on the App Store charts, and scaled to a $150M valuation after securing over $40M in funding. Over 1 billion snaps have been taken to date.At 15, James founded Thinkspace, a global non-profit organization that established beautifully-designed spaces in schools to inspire young people to learn coding. Thinkspace grew to over 500 locations worldwide, reached 25 million people at launch, and attracted support from industry icons including Sir Richard Branson, Sir Stephen Fry, and Steve Wozniak, with official endorsements from Google and Microsoft.His work has been recognized by global media outlets, with accolades including being named the \"Face of the Future\" by The Evening Standard, listed as the \"5th Smartest Kid on the Planet\" by The Times, and selected as one of the \"Top 21 Young Entrepreneurs\" by Founders Forum. He was invited to 10 Downing St by Brent Hoberman CBE as one of the 200 \"Founders of the Future.\"James has spoken at prestigious venues worldwide, including the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, SAP CEO Summit, the University of Oxford, TEDxTeen O2 Arena, WIRED Next Generation, Converse Summit, WayPaver Labs\' Speaker Series, and The Science Museum Technology Panel.His work has been featured in major international publications, including BBC World News, The Times, Forbes, TechCrunch, WIRED, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, The Sunday Times, The Verge, BBC Radio 1, and Protein Journal, reaching tens of millions of readers.
Experience
Founder & Creative Director
Jun 2018 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US
A Los Angeles-based creative studio where art direction and technology converge, elevating brands and websites beyond the ordinary.
Skills
- Start-Ups
- Entrepreneurship
- Ios Development
- Mobile Applications
- Web Development
- Objective-C
- User Experience
- Web Design
- Ios
- Xcode
- Html 5
- Php
- Marketing
- Social Networking
- Web Application Design
- Javascript
- Css
- Social Media
- Python
- Corporate Branding
- Business Strategy
- Project Planning
- Leadership
- Networking
- Branding & Identity
- Team Leadership
- Retail
- Human Experience
- Social Media Marketing
- Blogging
- 90s R&B
- Html5
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