Tim O'Reilly

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Inc. His original business plan was simply "interesting work for interesting people," and that's worked out pretty well. He publishes books, runs conferences, invests in early-stage startups, urges companies to create more value than they capture, and tries to change the world by spreading and amplifying the knowledge of innovators. Twitter: @timoreilly

Why Elon Musk Isn’t Superman

The Betting Economy vs. The Operating Economy

By Tim O’Reilly At one point early this year, Elon Musk briefly became the richest person in the world. After a 750% increase in Tesla’s stock market value added over $180 billion to his fortune, […]

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The Sweet Spot Between Laissez-Faire and Centralized Planning

A conversation about the “Third Way” between David Sloan Wilson and Tim O’Reilly.

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Evolving the New Economy: Tim O’Reilly and David Sloan Wilson

Evolutionary theory meets artificial intelligence and the management of algorithms.

David Sloan Wilson interview with Tim O’Reilly I use the phrase “Evolving the Future” a lot nowadays. It’s the title of a major scientific review article (“Evolving the Future: Toward a Science of Intentional Change”) […]

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Tim O’Reilly: It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Our Economy

The economic game is enormously fun for far too few players, and an increasingly miserable experience for many others.

By Tim O’Reilly Future economic historians may look back wryly at this period when we worshipped the divine right of capital while looking down on our ancestors who believed in the divine right of kings. […]

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We Can’t Wait for an Invisible Hand. It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of the Economy

To survive, the game of business needs to update its rules

By Tim O’Reilly Modern economics likes to think of itself as a science, and too often its practitioners have attempted to uncover its “laws,” as if they were modern Isaac Newtons uncovering the laws of […]

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