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.