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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I had only briefly heard about him in the past, but it's sad to hear he passed away.

Revisiting some of his old writings, I see he was deeply a humanist, and I love that. I especially liked https://om.co/2026/06/07/the-myth-the-mythos-and-the-man/

I met Om once in SF over a meal. I could tell he was a kind soul. RIP.

What a great loss. Thank you for your writing and photography

The first and seminal Indian tech blogger. I looked up to him. RIP.

Always enjoyed reading him online. Rest in peace.

Enjoyed his writing/commentary on all things tech over the years...

"My favorite thing Om wrote was actually an interview with Brunello Cucinelli in 2015. And to this day, I think it’s the single best thing you can read on running a business. Better than any book, better than any article." -Jason Fried

https://om.co/2015/04/27/brunello-cucinelli-2/

May he rest in peace.

thank hn: for putting me as secondary source