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Timothy O'Reilly is an Irish-American author and publisher, who is the founder of O'Reilly Media. He popularised the terms open source and Web 2.0.

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business · Irish-American programmer, author and businessman (born 1954) · publisher · writer · computer scientist · engineer · businessperson · programmer · also Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly

Born 6 June 1954 · Q347691

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Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.
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Awarded White Camel award (2007).
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“Just do something that lights you up, and lights up your customers, and lights up the world and scale to that.”

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2017· 1 entry

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O'Reilly published the book WTF

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2011· 1 entry

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Tim O'Reilly gave control of O'Reilly Media to the company's CFO, Laura Baldwin, but kept his longtime title of CEO

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2007· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2007Documented record84% confidence

Awarded White Camel award (2007).

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2005· 1 entry

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“I find, Andrew Keen's, his whole pitch, I think he was just pure and simple looking for an angle, to create some controversy and sell a book, I don't think there's any substance whatever to his rants.”

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2004· 1 entry

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Inviting five hundred technology and business leaders, followed by a public version of the event in 2005

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2003· 1 entry

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After the dot com bust, O'Reilly Media's corporate goal was to reignite enthusiasm in the computer industry

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2001· 2 entries

2001Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

O'Reilly coined the term inner source for the use of open source software development practices and the establishment of an open source-like culture within organisations whereby the organisation may still develop proprie

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O'Reilly was involved in a dispute with Amazon

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1998· 1 entry

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O'Reilly helped rebrand free software under the term open source

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1996· 1 entry

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O'Reilly fought against a 10-Connection Limit on TCP/IP NT Workstations, writing a letter to the United States Department of Justice, Bill Gates, and CNN, concerned that the Internet was still in its infancy, and that li

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1993· 1 entry

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The company's catalogue became an early web portal, the Global Network Navigator, which in 1995 was sold to America Online

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1989· 1 entry

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O'Reilly moved his company to Sebastopol, California, and published the Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, which was a best-seller in 1992

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1983· 1 entry

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Setting up his business in a converted barn in Newton, Massachusetts, where about a dozen employees worked in a single open room

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1973· 1 entry

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O'Reilly enrolled at Harvard College to study classics and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1975

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1954· 1 entry

Jun 6, 1954Documented record86% confidence

Born 1954-06-06.

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