Om Malik
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Om Prakash Malik | |
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| ॐ प्रकाश मलिक | |
 Malik in 2025 | |
| Born | September 29, 1966 |
| Alma mater | St. Stephen's College, Delhi Delhi University |
| Website | om |
Om Prakash Malik (Hindi: ॐ प्रकाश मलिक; born September 29, 1966) is an Indian-American web and technology writer. He founded and wrote content for Gigaom, which he sold in 2015 after it faced financial difficulty. He authored the book Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist and has written articles published in venues such asThe Wall Street Journal, Brandweek, and Crain Communications. He is now a partner at True Ventures.
Early life and education
Malik was born in and grew up in middle-class family in New Delhi.[1] He graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi affiliated with Delhi University in 1986, with an honors degree in chemistry.[2]
Career
After graduating, Malik had several journalism positions in New Delhi, including with VP Fun[1] and Newsmen Features, where he specialized in lifestyle features.[3]
He moved to London and then spent time in Eastern Europe.[1] He moved to New York City in 1993 to be a writer for India Abroad and then for Forbes.[4] He was also a senior writer for Red Herring, focusing on the telecommunications sector. In late 1994, he launched DesiParty.com, an events site for Indian immigrants. Also in 1994, he co-founded the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA). In 1995, he helped launch the now-defunct magazine, Masala, and its website Masala.com, a South Asian portal.[5]
In 1997, Malik was on the original team at Forbes.com led by David Churbuck. In 1999, he left Forbes.com to work as an investment manager at Hambrecht & Quist Asia Pacific; his stay there lasted only a few months because he decided he preferred being a writer.
In 2000, he moved to San Francisco, California to write for Business 2.0 magazine. In 2001, he started Gigaom, a blog. The website had a monthly global audience of over 500,000, and was among the top 50 blogs worldwide by Technorati rank.[6] It was listed in the Blog 100 Index by CNET.[7]
His book, Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist, was released in 2003. It investigated fraud by telecom companies during the dot-com bubble.[8]
Malik announced on June 12, 2006, that he was going to work on Gigaom full-time, although he continued to be a contributing editor and had a regular column in Business 2.0 until its demise in October 2007.[9]
In July 2006, Malik wrote a post about Twitter that was credited as one of the first media coverages of the social networking service.[10][11]
From July 2007 to March 2008, Malik hosted the podcast The GigaOm Show on Revision3 with Joyce Kim, which focused on technology and business.[12] Malik was also a frequent guest on the former CrankyGeeks podcast with John C. Dvorak.
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Malik left Gigaom in January 2014. In March 2015, the company ceased operations due to financial difficulty.[13] In May 2015, it was acquired by Knowingly Corporation.[14]
