Awards & Recognition
★Infoworld's Industry Achievement Award for open source advocacy
★White Camel award (2007)
★New York Public Library selected his book as one of most significant of 20th century
Notable Facts
→Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, $100+ million company with 35+ year history
→Popularized the terms 'open source' and 'Web 2.0' - coined major tech industry concepts
→Harvard graduate (cum laude) who founded company in 1978
→Created first commercial website (Global Network Navigator) sold to AOL in 1995
→Published 'The Whole Internet User's Guide' - first popular book about internet
→Partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, invested in Blogger, Foursquare, Bitly
→Board member of Code for America and multiple tech companies
→Visiting Professor at University College London Institute for Innovation
→Author of multiple books including 'WTF: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us'
→Organized summit that formally adopted the term 'open source software'
→Called 'The Oracle of Silicon Valley' by business media
→Over 500+ LinkedIn connections, significant tech industry influence