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O’Reilly Media

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American educational publisher

O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly that provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform. O'Reilly also publishes books about programming and other technical content. Its distinctive brand features a woodcut of an animal on many of its book covers.2 It is part of AOL.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1978Founded1
  • HeadquartersSebastopol1
  • Websitewww.oreilly.com
  • Legal formCorporation3
  • LEI549300M1L440B2ZMJY793
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressC/O CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY, 19808 Wilmington, United States3
  • Registered withDivision of Corporations, Department of State, 37371173

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O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly that provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform. O'Reilly also publishes books about programming and other technical content. Its distinctive brand features a woodcut of an animal on many of its book covers. The company was known as a popular tech conference organizer for more than 20 years before closing the live conferences arm of its business.2

Corporate structure

O’Reilly Media is part of a group headed by Bending Spoons. 71 entities, 21 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Bending Spoons Milano, Italy
    • AOL New York, New York, United States
    • Airtable Subsidiary · San Francisco
    • Brightcove Subsidiary · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
      • Brightcove Australia Pty Ltd Subsidiary · Australia
      • Brightcove FZ-LLC Subsidiary · United Arab Emirates
      • Brightcove Holdings, Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Brightcove India Pte. Ltd. Subsidiary · India
      • Brightcove K.K. Subsidiary · Japan
      • Brightcove S. de R.L. de C.V. Subsidiary · Mexico
      • Brightcove Singapore Pte. Ltd. Subsidiary · Singapore
      • Brightcove UK Ltd Subsidiary · United Kingdom
      • Cacti Acquisition LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Othello Acquisition Corporation Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • TV App Agency Ltd. Subsidiary · United Kingdom
      • TV App Agency Unipessoal Lda. Subsidiary · Portugal
      • Zencoder Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Eventbrite Subsidiary · San Francisco, California, United States
      • Britehouse, Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Eventbrite Argentina S.A. Subsidiary · Argentina
      • Eventbrite AU Pty Limited Subsidiary · Australia
      • Eventbrite Brasil Gestao De Eventos Ltda Subsidiary · Brazil
      • Eventbrite Canada, Inc. Subsidiary · Canada
      • Eventbrite ES SL Subsidiary · Spain
      • Eventbrite Hong Kong Limited Subsidiary · Hong Kong
      • Eventbrite International, Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
      • Eventbrite Mexico Payment Processing S. DE R.L. DE C.V. Subsidiary · Mexico
      • Eventbrite NZ Subsidiary · New Zealand
      • Eventbrite Operations (IE) Limited Subsidiary · Ireland
      • Eventbrite Singapore Pte. Ltd. Subsidiary · Singapore
      • EVENTBRITE TECHNOLOGIES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Hyderabad, India
      • Eventbrite UK Limited Subsidiary · United Kingdom
      • Eventioz Holdings, Inc. Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Issuu Subsidiary · Palo Alto
    • Meetup.com Subsidiary · New York City
    • MileIQ Subsidiary · San Francisco
    • Tractive Subsidiary · Pasching, Austria
    • Vimeo Subsidiary · New York
      • VHX Subsidiary · Brooklyn
    • Bending Spoons Apps ApS Subsidiary · 100% · København Ø, Denmark
    • Easy Tiger Apps ApS Subsidiary · 100% · København Ø, Denmark
    • Fonts ApS Subsidiary · 100% · København Ø, Denmark
    • Remini Web ApS Subsidiary · 100% · København Ø, Denmark
    • AI CREATIVITY S.R.L. Subsidiary · Milano, Italy
    • BENDING SPOONS HOLDINGS S.P.A. Subsidiary · Milano, Italy
    • BENDING SPOONS OPERATIONS S.P.A. Subsidiary · Milano, Italy
      • SPLICE VIDEO EDITOR S.R.L. Subsidiary · Milano, Italy
    • Evernote Owned
    • Harvest Owned
    • Komoot Owned
    • Miro Owned
    • Remini Owned
    • StreamYard Owned
    • WeTransfer Owned

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 of annual reports filed with the SEC; subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

Founded by Tim O'Reilly in 1978.1

The company began in 1978 as a private consulting firm doing technical writing, based in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, area. In 1984, it began to retain publishing rights on manuals created for Unix vendors. A few 70-page "Nutshell Handbooks" were well-received, but the focus remained on the consulting business until 1988. After a conference displaying O'Reilly's preliminary Xlib manuals attracted significant attention, the company began increasing production of manuals and books. The original cover art consisted of animal designs developed by Edie Freedman because she thought that Unix program names sounded like "weird animals".

From Wikipedia’s article on O'Reilly Media, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Leadership

Who has led O’Reilly Media, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

  • book
  • software

Listed on Wikidata.1

Global Network Navigator

In 1993 O'Reilly Media created the first web portal, when they launched one of the first Web-based resources, Global Network Navigator (GNN). GNN was sold to AOL in 1995, in one of the first large transactions of the dot-com bubble. GNN was the first site on the World Wide Web to feature paid advertising.

O'Reilly Network

In the late 1990s, O'Reilly founded the O'Reilly Network, which grew to include sites such as:

LinuxDevCenter.com

MacDevCenter.com

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WindowsDevCenter.com

ONLamp.com

O'Reilly Radar

In 2008 the company revised its online model and stopped publishing on several of its sites (including Codezoo and O'Reilly Connection). The company also produced dev2dev (a WebLogic-oriented site) in association with BEA and java.net (an open-source community for Java programmers) in association with Sun Microsystems and CollabNet.

From Wikipedia’s article on O'Reilly Media, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

In 2014 O'Reilly acquired Infinite Skills, a Canadian publisher of online and DVD video courses.

From Wikipedia’s article on O'Reilly Media, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Timeline

  1. 1978Founded Founded1

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