Tim O'Reilly
Education
Harvard University
BA, Classics 1972-01-01 - 1975-01-01Work Experience
O'Reilly
Current
O'Reilly
O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures
Current
O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures
Code for America
2010-01-01 - 2025-02-01
Code for America
Make:
2012-12-01 - 2019-06-01
Make:
Safari Books Online
2001-04-01 - 2014-08-01
Safari Books Online
Travelers
1994-06-01 - 2009-06-01
Travelers
Oracle
2006-01-01 - 2008-01-01
Oracle
O'Reilly Ventures
2000-01-01 - 2008-01-01
O'Reilly Ventures
Adobe
2003-09-01 - 2005-12-01
Adobe
Open Source Applications Foundation
2002-06-01 - 2005-01-01
Open Source Applications Foundation
Skills
Summary
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates.) Technical book publisher who learned that the right way to market my books was to market the technologies behind them. As a result, I and my company played a crucial role in evangelizing the world wide web, the perl programming language, linux, open source, xml, web services. Expanded into online publishing, conferences, magazines, and early stage venture investing. Interested in getting to know people on the cutting edge -- I think of my role as changing the future by helping to capture and spread the knowledge of innovators. I sometimes call my company's edge in trendspotting "watching the alpha geeks." I am on the boards of Code for America, Maker Media, Safari Books Online, PeerJ, Popvox, and Civis Analytics. Specialties: Book publishing, writing, editing, advocacy, grassroots marketing, conference organization, online publishing, early stage venture capital
