Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 7)

Om navigates his destiny through the market downturn … SM: Red Herring crashed too didn’t it? OM: Red Herring lasted a bit. As the market started to turn down, I think it was in September 2001, just before 9/11, I got a chance to go back to New York because I had not felt comfortable

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Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 6)

Om stayed with Forbes for several years, helping it become an established online venue. He then left to join a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley amidst the madness of the late Dotcom era. SM: At Forbes, for the first time you were working in an American professional environment, right? OM: Yes. This was more

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Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 5)

One of the seminal moments in Om’s evolution has been his stint at Forbes.com, which at the time, intersected with the infancy era of online media. SM: How did you get involved with Forbes? OM: Forbes had a piece on ARPANET which had a really profound impact on me. From there I kept building. Forbes

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Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 4)

Om is largely a self-taught guy, with little formal journalism school style training. But he has great instincts as a reporter, which he has always used to his advantage. What you read below is a remarkable story of having, simply put, “fire in the belly”. SM: How did you manage to pull off the transition

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Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 3)

Om discusses his first brush with the Internet. And we talk some philosophy. SM: What year was this? OM: It was 1992. SM: It was before the Internet bubble had started. OM: That was one of the things that crystallized things for me. While I was in London I had acquired a laptop and signed

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Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 2)

Journalism is not the typical career path selected by young Indians in middle class families. However, Om made a choice and followed his passion. SM: What was the first significant journalism job you had, something you consider a milestone? OM: I don’t think there has been anything that significant. I have been going through an

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Om Malik: Pioneering Blogs (Part 1)

Om Malik is a successful writer, reporter and has been entrepreneurial in many ways. He is also one of the pioneers of the blogging phenomena with GigaOm. Om has been a close friend of mine for many years, and was responsible for getting me into blogging. Today, he is one of first bloggers, along with

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Congratulations, Om!

Business Week survey celebrates Om Malik.