Paul Bradley Carr (born 7 December 1979) is a British writer, journalist and commentator, based in San Francisco.

[7] In 2011 it was reported that the movie rights for The Upgrade had been purchased by Neon Park[8] In March and April 2011, Carr spent 33 days staying on the Las Vegas Strip,[9] spending each night in a different hotel.

In 2001, while studying law[17] at university, Carr co-founded and edited the award-winning satirical "comment sheet," The Friday Thing.

[21] In July 2009 it was announced[22] that Carr would be writing a weekly column for technology news site TechCrunch and also blogging regularly for The Telegraph newspaper.

His byline has since been stripped from his articles, listing him only as "Contributor" [23] Prior to joining TechCrunch,[24] Carr wrote a weekly column for The Guardian newspaper entitled "Not Safe For Work"[25] which followed his adventures in the technology industry.

[39] In September 2011, having publicly resigned from TechCrunch[40] following the departure of founder Michael Arrington, it was reported that Carr planned[41] to return to entrepreneurship.

[42] Not Safe For Work Corporation, or "NSFWCORP", failed financially[43] and was sold to technology news Web site PandoDaily[44] which was founded by Sarah Lacy and also funded by Hsieh alongside Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel.