Robert Reid (author)

Robert H. "Rob" Reid (born October 2, 1966) is an American author and entrepreneur. He is best known for his bestselling book Architects of the Web and as the founder of Listen.com Inc., which created the Rhapsody digital music service.

Education and personal life

Reid was born in New York City, and grew up in Darien, Connecticut. As an undergraduate at Stanford University he studied Arabic and International Relations. He also has an MBA from Harvard. In 1994 Reid moved to Silicon Valley to work for Silicon Graphics, where he managed the company's relations with Netscape.

Reid is married to G4 personality and technology journalist Morgan Webb. The two collaborated on the online show Webbalert — a daily video podcast covering developments in the tech world. WebbAlert ran until 2009.

Writer

After Silicon Graphics, Reid became a venture capitalist. He continued to write as well, for places such as Wired, including a 1997 cover story about online video.

Reid is the author of three books, Architects of the Web, a book about the Silicon Valley, Year Zero, a work of fiction, and Year One, a book about Harvard Business School. He wrote his first book, Year One, which was an examination of student life, as a student at Harvard. The paperback was released by Avon the following year, in the wake of positive reviews from Business Week and others.