Om Malik was a great tech blogger in the times when tech was fun. "Blogging is not about opinion but it is about viewing the world in a certain way and sharing it with others how you look at things," he once wrote, celebrating a decade at the console. Malik died Wednesday, June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital. He was 59 years old. As posted by his family:
Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in the comments below or by posting and tagging his accounts on X/Twitter, Instagram, Threads, or LinkedIn. To learn more about Om's life and work, you can visit his About page
Born September 29, 1966, Malik was raised in New Delhi, graduated from St. Stephen's College in 1986 with a degree in chemistry, and moved to London and then New York to pursue a career in journalism. Part of Forbes.com's 1997 launch team, he founded Gigaom as a one-person blog in late 2001, initially to promote his book Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist, a classic investigation into the financial shenanigans of the dotcom bubble. By the mid-2000s he'd noticed that readers engaged more with his blog than his magazine work and went full-time. From a conversation with John C. Dvorak, two decades ago:
Comments are what makes blogging different from mainstream media, tapping into the collective intelligence. Engage every single comment. Single most important lesson learned.
He built the one-man site into a media company and research firm, but a heart attack reshaped his priorities, drawing him toward venture capital; he left Gigaom in 2014 and became a partner at True Ventures. He didn't stop writing. His last, earlier this month, was about the history evoked by the name of Mythos, Anthropic's controversial frontier language model.
Every significant deployment of mythos shares the same features. It operates in a domain where evidence is unavailable or inconvenient. It names things so the answer is already inside the word. Manifest. Divine. Destiny. Mythos. It requires an inside and an outside, the trusted and the untrusted, the believers and the skeptics. That is not a security policy. That is a priesthood.
