Om Malik
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Sep 6, 2026
Leo LaporteHOST
Stacey, uh, also writes a bunch of stuff for other people, I think, right? I s- I see your...
Leo LaporteHOST
Did we have you on after Om passed? 'Cause you wrote a beautiful piece about Om Malik.
Stacey HigginbothamGUEST
Y- you didn't.
Leo LaporteHOST
Yeah.
2 HRS 40 MINS LATER
speaker_5UNKNOWN
That's great.
Leo LaporteHOST
You did such a nice job.
Leo LaporteHOST
We sh- we didn't mention this GigaOm thing, but when Om passed, w- God, everybody loved Om Malik.
Leo LaporteHOST
We did, of course, talk about it, but w- I would have loved to have got you as one of the original GigaOm folks on.
Stacey HigginbothamGUEST
I really appreciate those.
Leo LaporteHOST
uh i thought we had blue jays but they were scrub jays so i don't i no longer know i just no longer know stacy uh also writes a bunch of stuff for other people i think right i see i see her did we have you on after om passed because you wrote a beautiful piece about om malik
Stacey HigginbothamGUEST
you didn't yeah but that's okay i
Leo LaporteHOST
think we wanted to
2 HRS 36 MINS LATER
Leo LaporteHOST
Oh, good.
Leo LaporteHOST
You did such a nice job.
Leo LaporteHOST
We didn't mention this GigaOM thing, but when OM passed, everybody loved OM Malik.
Leo LaporteHOST
We did, of course, talk about it, but I would have loved to have got you as one of the original GigaOM folks on.
NeilHOST
Finally, I'm attaching a photograph I made while I was in Warsaw for work and then vacation.
NeilHOST
Om Malik died around the time I made the image.
NeilHOST
Now, Om was a technology journalist and investor, but also an avid and deeply thoughtful photographer.
NeilHOST
I've been reading his professional writing for many years and his photography has played a meaningful role in how I've come to understand the medium.
Paris MarxHOST
One of those initiatives was to standardize its infrastructure so its teams could focus on the various digital tools and internal services they were working on instead of having to worry about servers.
Paris MarxHOST
Here's how CEO Jeff Bezos explained it in an interview with Om Malik in 2008.
Paris MarxHOST
Four years ago...
Jeff BezosSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
is when it started, and we had enough complexity inside Amazon that we were spending too much time on fine-grained coordination between our network engineering groups and our applications programming groups.