Om Malik

Om Malik–GigaOm founder, True Ventures partner, and one of the writers who, as the article I’m linking to puts it, taught Silicon Valley to read itself–died on June 24 after a long road with his heart. He was 59. I corresponded with Om infrequently but consistently over the years. We compared notes on our respective health challenges now and then, he would occasionally send me a few words whenever I wrote about the mobile industry, and he was one of the handful of people whose advice I sought before joining Microsoft. None of it was loud or frequent, but it was always generous, and always worth more than its length suggested. He will be missed.