Dale Dougherty — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Considered the Father of the Maker Movement
President at Make Community LLC since 2019
Co-founder of O'Reilly Media, where he helped develop its publishing business
Founder of Make Magazine (2005) and Maker Faire (2006), which expanded to 225 events worldwide by 2017
Founder of Global Network Navigator (GNN) in 1993, the first commercial website and first site on the internet supported by advertising
Helped popularize the term "Web 2.0" at the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference in 2004
Author of the O'Reilly book 'sed & awk'

Biography

Dale Dougherty is the President of Make Community LLC, a company he relaunched in 2019 after acquiring its brands and content. He is widely recognized as the Father of the Maker Movement, a global phenomenon he helped launch through his work. Dougherty co-founded O'Reilly Media with Tim O'Reilly in 1984, contributing to its early publishing business and authoring the book 'sed & awk'.