Josh has been building technologies to empower consumers for over a decade. He is a programmer turned entrepreneur, mentor and angel investor. He co-founded 3 companies over the past 10 years and 2 had successful exits. He achieved some notoriety for smashing a fax machine with a baseball bat during his pitch for Zosh at Demo conference. This earned him a coveted demo god award and led to a successful exit a few months later.

Current

Co-founder and CEO at Written
Angel investor and (advisory board member)
Capital Factory Mentor/Partner (2011, 2012, 2013)

Greatest hits

4x startup exec/founder
DemoGod Winner (Spring 2010)
Co-Founder/CEO Zosh (acquired by YouSendIt December 2010)
Austin Technology Incubator alum (2009)
Patent: System and method for collecting a signature using a smart device #12/555,667

Links

Has a github account
Videos on YouTube
More videos on vimeo
Active on Twitter
Profile on LinkedIn
Friendly on Facebook
Angel invests on Angel List
His Tumblr Blog
Product interests on Pinterest
Curates several Flipboard magazines: Random Goodness, Style, Opinion, Startup Stories, Rides, Gadgets, Learn Something, Developer Goodies, Crazy Stories

Recent Milestones
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Josh Kerr added a position as CEO at Written. (11/1/12)

Posted 5/17/13 at 9:11am
Josh Kerr added a position as Director of Product Management at Macheen. (8/1/11)

Posted 11/20/11 at 11:15pm
Josh Kerr added a position as Partner at Capital Factory. (3/1/11)

Posted 5/17/13 at 9:12am
Josh Kerr — YouSendIt Acquires Zosh, Josh takes role as Director of Product Management for mobile products. (1/5/11)

Posted 3/10/12 at 5:58pm via yousendit.com
Josh Kerr added a position as Director of Product Management at YouSendIt. (1/1/11)

Posted 7/22/11 at 10:00pm
Josh Kerr — Won a DemoGod award at Demo Conference. (3/23/10)

Posted 5/17/13 at 9:14am via mashable.com
Josh Kerr added a position as CEO at Zosh. (6/1/08)

Posted 7/22/11 at 10:00pm