Timothy O'Reilly, known as Tim O'Reilly and born on 6 June 1954 in County Cork, Ireland, is an Irish-American author and publisher and the founder of O'Reilly Media, formerly O'Reilly & Associates. His family moved to San Francisco when he was a baby. He studied classics at Harvard College and graduated cum laude in 1975, started as a technical writer in 1977 and began publishing computer manuals in 1983 from a converted barn in Newton, Massachusetts. In 1989 he moved the business to Sebastopol, California, and published the best-selling Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog in 1992. He popularised the terms open source and Web 2.0 and has invested as a venture capitalist in companies such as Blogger, Foursquare and Bitly. In 2011 he gave control of O'Reilly Media to its chief financial officer Laura Baldwin while keeping his title of chief executive.
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