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Tim O'Reilly

Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media

Sebastopol, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,200,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $500,000.00

Skills

Editing
Online Publishing
Grassroots Marketing
Publishing
Venture Capital
SaaS
Start-ups
Business Development
Product Management
Social Media
Web 2.0
Public Speaking
Gov 2.0
Future Trends
Visionary
Big Data
Inspiring Leadership
Writing
Innovation
Inspiring People

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder, chairman and CEO

    1983

    Strategic direction, articulation of vision and direction, advocacy and outreach on industry issues, "buck stops here" decisions, coordination of the band of geniuses who do all the real work while I get an unfair share of the credit.

  • Board Member

    2010

    Code for America is a non-profit that brings together teams of talented developers to help city governments become more transparent, accountable, participatory, and efficient.

O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures

2008

  • Partner

    2008

    An early stage venture investor focused on emerging technologies. I provide strategic direction and lead flow, and evaluate investments.

2012 - 2019

  • Board Member

    2012 - 2019

    We spun Maker Media out of O'Reilly Media at the end of 2012. I am a board member and a minority shareholder.

  • Board Member

    2001 - 2014

1994 - 2009

  • co-founder, board member

    1994 - 2009

    With my brother James, created the concept of story anthology as travel guidebook -- "go before you go" through the stories of others if you want to understand what matters about a country you're going to visit. TT has many times won the Lowell Thomas Award for best travel book of the year.

2006 - 2008

  • Board Member

    2006 - 2008

    Member of the Board of Directors

O'Reilly Ventures

2000 - 2008

  • Partner

    2000 - 2008

    Early stage investor in new technologies related to O'Reilly's core business, where O'Reilly's involvement can help bring companies to the next level of business or funding.

2003 - 2005

  • Board member

    2003 - 2005

    Bringing Macromedia the open systems/open source perspective; on the other end, learning about the differences between public and private companies!

  • Member, board of directors

    2002 - 2005

    Adviser on open source and other technology issues.