“I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.”

Indian-American web and technology writer and journalist

Om Prakash Malik is an Indian-American web and technology writer and journalist. He founded Gigaom, an influential early technology news site, and has written for publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Fast Company, and Wired. His work has focused on startups, Silicon Valley, and the wider technology industry. He has also been a partner at True Ventures in Palo Alto and continues to publish on his personal site, On my Om.