My dear friend, Om Malik, has decided to leave Business 2.0 and start out on his own:

“I wanted to wait till end of this month, to announce my decision to strike out on my own, and my role within Business 2.0 going forward. I wanted to call people I love and respect, and tell them individually. An archaic notion in this era of email, IM and broadband – but still! And then life happened. I will get to my future plans later in this post, but for a few minutes indulge me.”

I am very happy for Om and excited because it’s so much more fun and inspiring to run your own show. I’ve been running Muniwireless.com for three years and I simply can’t go back to working for someone else again. I was always working on other people’s projects and one day, I asked myself, “When do I get to work on my own projects?” I had a lot of ideas and one day I decided, that’s it. Time to launch my own gig.