Jothy Rosenberg

Jothy Rosenberg has a PhD in computer science from Duke University where he stayed on as professor for 5 years. He caught the entrepreneurial bug and founded a supercomputer startup in California. Then he did a 5 year stint at a large software company called Borland. Borland shipped him off to Boston which he fell in love with and where he has remained for 15 years. Jothy has gone on to found 8 additional startups, two of which had exits of over $100M. During this time he also wrote three technical books: How Debuggers Work, Securing Web Services, and most recently, The Cloud at Your Service. But his real pride and joy is his book called Who Says I Can't that recounts how he used extreme sports to recover from two bouts with cancer and an amputation as a teenager when he was told he had zero chance of survival. Thirty- eight years later he is still very active in those extreme sports, uses many of them to raise money for important causes, helps startups navigate the perilous early days of life, is a motivational speaker on topics from Who Says I Can’t and is now set to create a new TV series. Who Says I Can’t, the reality TV series, focuses on the incredible people you will find everywhere who refuse to be knocked down by life and show us through sports they have excelled at, how to fight back and thrive regardless of what life throws at us.