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|name = Om Prakash Malik<br />
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|caption = Malik in 2019<br />
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|09|29}}<br />
|birth_place = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]<br />
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|website = {{URL|http://om.co}}<br />
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'''Om Prakash Malik''' (born September 29, 1966) is an [[Indian-American]] web and technology writer. He is the founder and a former senior writer for [[GigaOM]]. He is now a partner at True Ventures.<br />
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== Personal life and education ==<br />
Malik was born in [[New Delhi]]. He graduated from [[St. Stephen's College, Delhi|St. Stephens’ College]] in [[New Delhi]] in 1986, with an honors degree in [[chemistry]].<br />
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== Career ==<br />
Malik started out as a young writer in India, working with [[Delhi]]-based Newsmen Features, where he specialised in lifestyle features.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://om.co/2011/12/05/dev-anand-rip/|title=In Praise of Dev Anand, India's Gregory Peck. R.I.P!|date=December 6, 2011|website=On my Om|access-date=September 9, 2019}}</ref><br />
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He moved to [[New York City]] in 1993 to be a writer for ''[[India Abroad]]'' and then for ''[[Forbes]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Chris|first1=Preimesberger|title=Om Malik Says 'Goodnight, Sweetheart,' Closes Down GigaOm|url=http://www.eweek.com/it-management/om-malik-says-goodnight-sweetheart-closes-down-gigaom.html|access-date=14 March 2015|publisher=eweek.com}}</ref> He was also a senior writer for ''[[Red Herring (magazine)|Red Herring]]'', focusing on the telecommunications sector, and later became a senior writer there. In late 1994, he launched DesiParty.com, an events site for Indian immigrants. That same year, 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.<br />
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In 1997, Malik was on the original team at Forbes.com led by [[David Churbuck]]. In 1999 he left Forbes.com to work in the [[venture capital]] world, serving 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.<br />
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In 2000, he moved to [[San Francisco, California]] to write for ''[[Business 2.0]]'' magazine. In 2001, he started ''GigaOM'', a [[blog]] published by GigaOmniMedia, Inc. in [[San Francisco]]. The website had a monthly global audience of over 500,000, and was among the top 50 blogs worldwide by [[Technorati]] rank.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://technorati.com/search/gigaom.com|title=GigaOM on Technorati|publisher=Technorati|access-date=2007-03-16}}{{dead link|date=July 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> and was part of [[CNet]]'s 100 Most Influential Blogs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.cnet.com/2310-10784_3-0.html|title=Blog 100 Index|publisher=CNET|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120720211640/http://news.cnet.com/CNET-News.coms-Blog-100/2009-12_3-5887900.html|archive-date=2012-07-20|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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His first book, ''Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist'', was released on May 15, 2003.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Walker|first1=Rob|title=Best Business Books 2003: Corporate Scandals|url=http://www.strategy-business.com/article/999237?pg=all|access-date=14 March 2015|publisher=strategy-business.com}}</ref> Malik's writings have also appeared in newspapers and magazines such as ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', ''[[Brandweek]]'', and ''Crain's New York Business''.<br />
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[[File:Om Malik & Nick Bilton (15083880520).jpg|thumb|Malik with [[Nick Bilton]] in 2014]]<br />
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. In addition to ''GigaOM'', he also wrote for the [[blog]]s ''Web Worker Daily'' and ''Tablatronic''.<br />
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From July 2007 to March 2008, Malik hosted the podcast ''The GigaOm Show'' on [[Revision3]] with Joyce Kim, which focused on technology and business. He ended the podcast to focus on other things, among them his health. Malik was also a frequent guest on the former ''CrankyGeeks'' podcast with [[John C. Dvorak]].<br />
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Malik left GigaOM in January 2014. In March 2015, the company ceased operations.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Somaiya|first1=Ravi|title=Tech Blog GigaOm Abruptly Shuts Down|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/business/media/tech-blog-gigaom-abruptly-shuts-down.html|access-date=2 September 2016|work=The New York Times}} 2015/03/10</ref> In August 2015, the blog resumed under different ownership.<ref>[https://gigaom.com/2015/05/26/gigaom-com-acquired-by-knowingly-corp/ Gigaom.com acquired by Knowingly] 2015/05/26</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[TechCrunch]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
*{{cite journal |author=Mukherjee, Arindam |date=January 12, 2015 |title='Proliferation of visual sensors is extreme' |department=Interview |journal=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]] |volume=55 |issue=1 |page=140 |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/proliferation-of-visual-sensors-is-extreme/292954 |access-date=2016-01-07}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
{{commons category|Om Malik}}<br />
* [http://om.co/ Om's Personal Blog]<br />
* [http://www.sramanamitra.com/2007/06/01/om-malik-pioneering-blogs-part-1/ Interview with Sramana Mitra]<br />
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/technology/07blogger.html?ref=business NYT article about bloggers, including Om]<br />
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/business/media/tech-blog-gigaom-abruptly-shuts-down.html/ Tech Blog GigaOm Abruptly Shuts Down]<br />
* [http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/03/10/gigaom_shuts_down_why_did_om_malik_s_tech_blog_run_out_of_money.html/ GigaOm Was Universally Respected. Too Bad Respect Doesn’t Pay the Bills.]<br />
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