Gigaom is winding down and its assets are now controlled by the company’s lenders. It is not how you want the story of a company you founded to end. 

Every founder starts on a path — hopeful and optimistic, full of desire to build something that helps change the world for the better, reshape an industry and hopefully become independent, both metaphorically and financially. Business, much like life, is not a movie and not everyone gets to have a story book ending. 

There will be time for postmortems, but not today. Today, I want to thank all the people who make (and have helped make) Gigaom. Their role in this journey was what really made it all worth it. They are great people and they will all do great work wherever they go. I want to thank our investors who believed in the business long before it became fashionable. And most importantly, I want to thank you dear readers for coming along on this trip of a lifetime. 

I might have left Gigaom, the company, over a year ago, but Gigaom, the  idea still lives in my heart.

Goodnight sweetheart, I still love you!