Founder Profile
James Berdigans
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
James Berdigans possessed an incredibly rigorous, deeply practical background in advanced mass-market e-commerce, complex digital marketing, and massive-scale drop-shipping logistics. Operating as a fiercely resilient independent merchant who actively navigated the incredibly brutal margins of online retail, this intensely hands-on foundation in global supply chains provided the exact strategic leverage required to successfully pioneer the massive Printify network.
Founding Story
James Berdigans is a fiercely brilliant Latvian technology entrepreneur, highly visionary e-commerce architect, and the profoundly influential CEO and co-founder fundamentally responsible for architecting the massively dominant Printify print-on-demand empire. Operating as an incredibly frustrated independent merchant attempting to scale massive custom apparel stores, Berdigans aggressively recognized the massive, catastrophic bottlenecks caused by centralized printing and shipping monopolies. In 2015, he relentlessly partnered with Artis Kehris and Gatis Dukurs to completely launch Printify as a highly decentralized platform. By fiercely engineering a massive global network of independent print providers that fiercely competed for merchant orders, his absolutely rigorous strategic leadership completely revolutionized e-commerce margins and fulfillment speeds. His massive corporate execution permanently established Printify as a multi-billion dollar titan of the creator economy.