Axios business editor Dan Primack writes about former technology journalist Om Malik, who died Wednesday at the age of 59.
Primack writes, “Social media is full of such sentiments, but I wanted to share two particular remembrances. The first from Katie Fehrenbacher, an Axios Pro reporter who was part of the original Gigaom team. The second from Kara Swisher, who was in the same tech reporting and media entrepreneur trenches.
“Katie: “Om had a unique way of looking at technology, using his knowledge of the underlying infrastructure to predict how people would use it. He also used design as a throughline in his career, shaping everything from his reporting to his media products to his hobbies.
:In 2006, I got coffee with Om at the Starbucks on Battery Street. As a young tech journalist, I was trying to convince him to help get me a job at Business 2.0. Instead he said he was starting something new and invited me to join Gigaom as the first employee. I took the job on the spot and spent the next nine years working alongside him.
“He wasn’t only a boss, or a mentor, he was a close friend. Om loved people and was always so generous with his time. His legacy is the countless young founders, journalists, designers and investors he advised along the way.”
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