Om had a very honest voice - I never met him, but have read his takes for a very long time now. Om Shanti.

So sad. I first met Om in 2001 or so. I pissed him off because I wouldn’t meet with him to do an interview for our startup. He always loved getting the early scoop and we weren’t ready for any publicity. In later years, we would laugh about it and I gave him the early scoop on the next one. During those years he became a friend and we would sometimes grab lunch and chat about all manner of things, from tech to family. I dished on some of what I watched go down in the dot-com bubble for his Broadbandits book. Later, I would go on to write contributed articles for GigaOm. Goodbye, buddy. 60 is too young. You were one of the best. Maybe you’re getting the early scoop in a different way.

Very sad news. :(

fondly remember meeting Om many years ago

I was so anxious I couldn't sleep the night before

then in the morning when I walked up to true ventures I was such a sleep deprived mess I worried I will just waste his time

he was a bit surprised and humored, I think, we grabbed some coffee and had a great conversation

ty for your kindness

RIP Om

On its launch, GigaOM had great influence in Brazil's Porto Digital startup scene back in the days.

RIP

Om was a bright light and so very kind. RIP

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.

Sad and shocking.

Many of us grew up reading GigaOM in the early 2000s when I was new in CS.

Condelence with his family

A sad day for us who learn of his passing. I hope it was painless and peaceful, as befits a person who gave so freely of himself. His collected body of work is a trustworthy chronicle of the Internet and the WWW's glow up era. It will inform generations to come. They will know Om too.

And through the same work, he remains alive to us; we who sought his dogged, prodigious, plain speaking influence, insight, and direct access to the beating heart of the place where it was all being invented and grown and scaled and blown up and resurrected.

Om's writing brought the excitement and possibility of the world to me, circa 2004. A 25-something B-school student, in faraway Pune, India, viscerally experiencing and studying the telecom boom at home, while also looking towards The Valley to see what might come to be, next.

I read him on GigaOm, and his various other later avatars / manifestations, but he is always going to be "Om Malik on Broadband" for me. As he will be for many of my cohort.

GigaOm is dead, long live GigaOm.com.

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