Om Malik, a longtime technology journalist who later became a venture capitalist, died on Wednesday. He was 59.
He was the founder of tech news site GigaOm, which he ran from 2001 to 2013. Malik was also a senior writer for Forbes, Red Herring and Business 2.0.
Since then, he was a partner in True Ventures.
When he left GigaOm in 2013, technology journalist Kara Swisher wrote, ““While Om has not been my only touchstone in the critical department of hey-kids-let’s-put-on-a show-that’s-all-ours — hello, Walt! — there is no question that his launch of Gigaom back then was one of the major watershed moments of my career. I remember sitting in my office at the Wall Street Journal and thinking: Wait. What?”
He also authored the 2003 book “Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist” and co-founded the South Asian Journalists Association in 1994.”
