
Life and Leadership Lessons I Learned In The Military: “Personal values are often a better indicator of your chance of long-term success than where you went to school”, With Dan Park, CEO of BuildDirect
As a part of my series about “Life and Leadership Lessons Learned In The Military”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dan Park, the CEO of BuildDirect, a company that pioneered the online sales of building material products, bridging the gap between manufacturers and end-users and saving customers up to 60 percent on retail pricing.
- March 5, 2020 | Read More

BuildDirect upgrades loyalty program for Pro contractors
BuildDirect, which specializes in shipping bulky building supplies and tools direct to homes and job sites in Canada and the United States, has dramatically enhanced its rewards program for professional contractors.
- September 6, 2018 | Read More

BuildDirect offers PROs instant credit program
BuildDirect today announced its PRO Credit update, which the company described as an instant credit benefit as a part of the BuildDirect PRO Rewards Program.
- August 24, 2018 | Read More

BuildDirect Announces Updates to Pro Credit Plan
BuildDirect, the marketplace for purchasing and selling quality home improvement materials online, has announced its Pro Credit update, an instant credit benefit as a part of the BuildDirect Pro Rewards Program.
- August 24, 2018 | Read More

BuildDirect Launches Instant Credit Enhancement for PROs
BuildDirect announced its PRO Credit update, an instant credit benefit as a part of the BuildDirect PRO Rewards Program. Starting today, home improvement professionals registered as PROs earn instantly redeemable credit after every purchase.
- August 24, 2018 | Read More

This Vancouver-based company provides their employees with an unlimited number of paid vacation days
Do you know that of developed countries Canada ranks among the lowest for mandatory paid vacation time. We get two weeks paid vacation with that moving up to three weeks with seniority. In the states how much do they have to give? NONE! They do not legally require employers to provide paid annual leave - though most people get about 10 days in the States.
How much should people get? The Vancouver based company BuildDirect allows their employees to make that decision for themselves. They offer unlimited paid vacation days.
- July 27, 2018 | Read More

BuildDirect.com builds more B2B sales from the ground up
As it rebuilds its financial performance, the online merchant and marketplace operator is using techniques—and personnel—from Amazon Business to steer toward a bigger market share in sales to professional contractors and other businesses.

Winning the battle to rebuild B.C.’s BuildDirect
Three and a half years ago, having just raised $50 million from investors and with plans to hire hundreds more workers, BuildDirect was cementing its reputation as one of Vancouver’s most celebrated homegrown tech companies.
- July 20, 2018 | Read More

BUILDDIRECT APPOINTS FORMER AMAZON LEADERS TO ITS EXECUTIVE TEAM
Vancouver-based BuildDirect, an online marketplace for home improvement products, announced that it is adding four new members to its executive team.
- July 3, 2018 | Read More

BuildDirect stacks new team with ex-Amazon execs
Online home improvement retailer BuildDirect on Monday said that newly arrived CEO Dan Park has built up its new leadership team and packed it with a few of his former colleagues at Amazon.
- July 3, 2018 | Read More

BuildDirect installs new executive team as B.C. e-commerce giant puts restructuring behind it
Three months after emerging from credit protection, Vancouver’s BuildDirect.com Technologies Inc. unveiled a new management team on Tuesday that is dominated by former Amazon.com Inc. executives.
- July 3, 2018 | Read More

Online hardware store BuildDirect brings in new leadership as it refocuses on pros
BuildDirect, the Vancouver, BC.-based online home improvement store, went through a tough transition in recent months. In late October 2017, the company’s co-founder and CEO Jeff Booth stepped back from his job days before the company filed for the Canadian equivalent of bankruptcy protection. It then installed former Amazon executive Dan Park, who had only joined the company only a few weeks before, as its new CEO. Under Park, BuildDirect successfully restructured its debt and balance sheet and by late March of this year, it emerged from bankruptcy protection with new funding in place to help it find its feet again.
- July 2, 2018 | Read More

BuildDirect offers customer credit
BuildDirect, a technology platform for the home improvement industry, has partnered with Affirm Inc. to offer its first credit option for its U.S.-based customers that will provide transparent payment alternatives.
- June 21, 2018 | Read More

BuildDirect Partners with Affirm to Offer Simple Way to Purchase Home Improvement & Renovation Products Online
BuildDirect today announced its partnership with Affirm Inc., a financial technology company that provides transparent payment alternatives to traditional credit. Now, U.S.-based BuildDirect customers have easy access to flexible and transparent financing options to pay for home improvement and renovation materials over time.
- May 14, 2018 | Read More

Canada’s Technology VC Deals Had a Record-Setting Q1 in 2018
Often times, people speak in hyperbole when it comes to explaining just how quickly Canada’s tech and startup scene is growing. Sure, there’s reports, studies, and even blurbs from top tech personalities featuring words like explosive and unparalleled, but these explainers pale in comparison to hard numbers.
- April 13, 2018 | Read More

BuildDirect sets sights on future growth
[Vancouver, B.C.] Now that BuildDirect has secured financing and has emerged from its creditor protection in both Canada and the United States, it is poised to continue its expansion plans to disrupt the home improvement business.
- April 10, 2018 | Read More

AI Helping BuildDirect Optimize Merchandising, Pricing
In an interview this week at Shoptalk in Las Vegas, Dan Park, CEO of BuildDirect, discusses how the home improvement online marketplace is using artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize merchandising its site, particularly pricing.
- March 22, 2018 | Read More

BuildDirect goes big
[Vancouver] BuildDirect has named Dan Park chief operating officer, where he will lead and be responsible for all commercial aspects of BuildDirect, including P&L management, buyer and seller acquisition and the buyer and seller experience.
- October 6, 2017 | Read More

Vancouver flooring site makes online trust group’s honor roll
A Vancouver-based Web site that sells flooring materials has again placed itself on the Online Trust Alliance’s Top 50 Honor Roll, proving that Canadian companies can be among global leaders in security, consumer protection and privacy practices.
- June 20, 2017 | Read More

Joseph Thompson, Vice President of Marketing on BuildDirect
Joseph Thompson, vice president of Marketing for BuildDirect, discusses the BuildDirect organization and its history, the various categories of heavy building materials products it offers, and the logistics solutions it has developed to bring these products to its customer-base made up of consumers and contractors.
- June 2, 2017 | Read More