James Chapman is the Founder and CEO of Plain Sight, a social networking platform for like-minded people to connect with each other in virtual and physical spaces.
But this wasn’t his first foray into intentional networking. In 2015, he began an evening workspace for side hustlers to collaborate with each other, which led to the idea for his current startup. In 2017, he started and ran Detroit Demo Day, which has since provided over four million in funding to small businesses throughout the City of Detroit, the majority of which have been minority and women-owned.
Chap has spent the bulk of his career creating spaces for ambitious people to come together, and it’s his way of giving back to the communities that helped him.
“I’m only where I am, really, because of the meaningful connections that I was able to make along the way, and what if I would have missed out on those? Like what if I didn’t have somebody to make introductions for me? And so, that’s what led to the idea for Plain Sight, is trying to solve that problem for people who are in shared spaces, hyper local, to be able to make meaningful connections with each other based on their needs.”
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