Tim Sullivan

Tim is an editor with a16z crypto, working to help team members bring their ideas to life.

Tim started his editorial career at Princeton University Press, where he oversaw the economics and sociology lists and worked with some of the world’s leading social scientists. His books included Marc Levinson’s The Box, Bryan Caplan’s The Myth of the Rational Voter, Scott Page’s The Difference, and Peter Leeson’s The Invisible Hook, and textbooks like Matthew Jackson’s Networks and Steve Tadelis’s Game Theory. He also worked with luminaries including Robert Shiller, Tyler Cowen, Eric Maskin, Stephen Ross, Robert K. Merton, Michael Woodford, Cass Sunstein, Richard Thaler, Michael Kremer, Douglass North, Tom Sargent, and Edmund Phelps. 

Tim was the editorial director of Harvard Business Review Press and a senior editor at Harvard Business Review, where he worked with the executive team to expand its multimedia reach and to coordinate the publishing programs of the press, the magazine, and the website, including launching the celebrated HBR on… series. There, he worked with authors including Clayton Christensen, Whole Foods’ John Mackey, P&G’s A.G. Lafley, Michael Mauboussin, Joshua Gans, and Roger Martin.

Prior to joining a16z crypto, Tim was Executive Director of the University of California Press, one of the oldest and largest academic publishers in the United States. He also worked at Portfolio and Basic Books, where he signed Brad de Long’s New York Times best-selling Slouching Towards Utopia.Tim is also the coauthor of two books on popular economics, The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office, which was shortlisted for the Goldman Sachs-FT Business Book of the Year, and The Inner Lives of Markets. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, USA Today, Slate, and other outlets. He’s lectured on economics and publishing at Yale, Harvard, MIT, UC Berkeley, and elsewhere.

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