- Startups - Om Malik, Founder GigaOm-TWiST #327

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From RocketSpace, Jason talks with Om Malik of GigaOm

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0:55 Thanks to SnapTerms for sponsoring the program. Visit snapterms.com and use the code TWiST

4:00 Welcome to the show Om Malik

8:10 What was is about writing and magazines that drew you in?

11:50 Do you think there is a shift back towards people wanting to write longer pieces?

13:05 When did you come to the US?

13:15 Had you been to the US before you moved here?

14:05 What did your parents say when you said you were leaving?

15:10 When you came here, what was it like to get off the plane?

16:35 How did New York look when you when you first arrived compared to what you had imagined?

17:25 What was your first salary in New York?

18:10 What did your parents do in India?

18:40 When did you get the big break to get into journalism?

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29:15 How do you think technology has changed society in our lifetime?

31:05 Do you think this generation takes connectivity for granted?

40:00 At what point did you work for Forbes.com?

42:40 When the internet collapsed, did you think that it was a fraud?

44:40 So at some point you decided to launch your own blog?

49:20 Who was the original managing editor at Businessweek?

50:45 So 2003 was the 1st time in your journalism career that was truly hard?

54:40 What was it about blogging that let it take off the way it did?

55:15 When did GigaOm become a company?

61:00 How many people work for you now?

64:40 Do you think respect for readers is the driving source in media right now?

68:30 Do you think Nick Denton will ever sell?

69:45 Do you think your work ethic almost pushed you over the edge?

70:55 How close do you think you were to dying?

71:50 How did your heart attack inform how you look at the world?

74:50 How do your parents look at your success?

75:50 Does the amount of love you have for what you do make it hard for you to find someone?

77:10 What is more enjoyable, the flow of writing, or the moment people respond back to you?

78:50 Do people ever tell you that your writing inspired them to do something?

81:00 What aer your plans for inside.com?

82:25 How do you balance fatherhood with entrepreneurship?

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