faith • family • freedom
DAVIDJAY
Almost nobody feels at ease when a lens points their way.
Some moments you'll forget I'm there. Some moments I'll tell you exactly where to stand. Either way, you stay yourselves.
WHAT I BUILD
The companies
PAS
• Gave them websites.
Agree • Helped them book clients and get paid.
Pass • Provided a way to deliver and sell their work.
Shoot & Share • A community of 50,000 photographers helping each other succeed
After dropping out of Westmont College I spent ten years behind the camera.
I photographed weddings all over the world and was named the #1 wedding and portrait photographer by the WPJA.
Photographers kept asking how I ran my business, so I started communities and companies to help them.
build your business before building your house.
TRACK RECO
A community for photographers to learn and connect. 50,000 members in 100 local groups.
Online photo galleries for photographers to share and sell. $7.5M ARR, then an exit.
A drag-and-drop website builder for creatives. $2M ARR, then an exit.
Video emails and widgets to help personalize client communication
Contracts and payments for small businesses.
$400M in contract volume.
$7.5M ARR · Pass Gallery$2M ARR ·$400M in contracts · Agree50,000 members · Shoot & Share10,000+ users · WarmWelcome
Léa + Martin
PAST
PAST
PAST
- phil j
IF YOU MAKE YOUR BUSINESS ABOUT HELPING OTHER PEOPLE YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE PLENTY OF WORK.
- Philip Jay
(my dad)
PRESENT
These days the building happens with my hands as much as my laptop.
Life looks a lot like a ranch now: fixing what breaks, raising what grows, and doing the real work alongside my wife and our four kids. It's slower, louder and better.
BUILDING, WITH MY FAMILY BESIDE ME.
- 2002
Where it started
I went to Westmont College on a soccer scholarship but ended up dropping out before graduating.
- 2003
Wedding Photography
As a college dropout I couldn't get a job but I loved photography and started photographing friends weddings for free.
- 2004
Helping other photographers
I was one of the only photographers embracing digital cameras and new technology so other new photographers started to ask me how to start their business so I started a free photography forum to help other photographers. It was called OpenSourcePhoto.
DAVID JAY · Founder & CEO
I'm David Jay. I started as a wedding photographer, named #1 in the world by the WPJA, then spent twenty years building companies for creatives and small businesses: , Pass Gallery, Shoot & Share, Agree and WarmWelcome. All bootstrapped.
Today I live ranch-style in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida and San Diego, CA with my wife and our four kids.
DAVIDJAY existed, I spent my evenings on the quay at the old port market, watching boats slip in and out with the tide.Faith, family and freedom shape everything I build.
I'M IN YOUR CORNER
FUTURE
Tell me what you're building
A business, a brand, or something with your own two hands. Share where you are and what feels stuck.
We talk it through
Twenty years of building taught me the work is about the people you serve. I'll ask plenty.
We build it
Tools, advice, or a real conversation. Whatever helps you get it done.
