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Tim O'reilly

Founder of O'Reilly Media

Sebastopol, California

Overview 

Tim O'Reilly is the Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, known for his visionary leadership in online publishing and venture capital. With a background in editing and publishing, he has successfully invested in and supported numerous startups, including companies like Medium and GoodData, while also serving on the boards of organizations like Code for America and Maker Media.

Work Experience 

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O'Reilly Media

  • Founder, chairman and CEO

    1983 - Current

    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.

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Code for America

  • 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.

A national network of "civic hackers" innovating government & community.

brigade.codeforamerica.org

O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures

  • Partner

    2008

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

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Maker Media

  • 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.

Make is a platform for connecting makers through media, events and e commerce.

makerfaire.com
SB

Safari Books Online, LLC

  • Board Member

    2001 - 2014

Safari Books Online is an online library of books and videos.

safaribooksonline.com
TT

Travelers Tales

  • 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.

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MySQL

  • Board Member

    2006 - 2008

    Member of the Board of Directors

Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.

oracle.com

O'Reilly Ventures

  • 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.

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Macromedia

  • 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!

Adobe Fund for Design,a $10m fund that supports emerging companies to build products and services

adobe.com

Open Source Applications Foundation

  • Member, board of directors

    2002 - 2005

    Adviser on open source and other technology issues.

Education 

Investments 

ElevenLabs

Series A

Total funding: $100M

Metabiota

Seed

Total funding: $34M

Medium

Series A

Total funding: $190M

POPVOX

Angel

Total funding amount not yet available

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