Om Malik joins True as Venture Partner

My partners and I started True in 2005 with a very simple objective: build a new type of venture firm designed for the entrepreneur. Everyone on our team has previously started their own business(es) as a Founder, and many of us have invested in start-ups as VCs throughout our career. From these experiences, we share a conviction that the most important ingredient to early stage success is the entrepreneur. Other factors matter a great deal, such as market forces, timing and unique advantages like technology and product, but we feel the most important aspect of a startup is its leader. The mantra that “people are everything” has guided our portfolio and deal decisions, the construction of our investor base and, of course, our own team here at True.

We’re careful and cautious about growth, but we recognize our shortcomings and we are always striving to improve the products and services we offer entrepreneurs.

Imagine our excitement to announce that Om Malik joins True as a Venture Partner. We have known and worked closely with Om for a long time. He not only embodies the passion, talent and drive required to build a start-up, but Om is turning his idea for GigaOm into a leader in the blog-based media market before all of our eyes. Om’s entrepreneurial journey with GigaOm is ongoing and is happening now, and to be clear he will remain focused on that priority as job one.

As GigaOm has evolved though, so too has Om’s scope and ambition. I will leave it to Om’s own words to describe his motivations for joining us and the evolution of his career and life. With Om connected to the small but growing True platform, entrepreneurs inside and out of the True family stand to benefit from his day to day experience building GigaOm, industry vision and uncanny and prescient ability to glean trends from disparate pieces of data.

Our goal at True is clear: use our firm’s resources to provide better services and more talent to our customer the entrepreneur. The addition of Om to our already amazing Venture Partner team of Toni Schneider and Tony Conrad furthers True’s mission of having exceptionally gifted, real-live, active entrepreneurs involved in all aspects of our team’s decisions.

We consider it a tremendous privilege to call Om our Partner.

Welcome Om!