Mary Meeker

Morgan Stanley

Mary Meeker

Global technology team leader at Morgan Stanley Mary Meeker gives her update on all things tech and internet in her presentation at the 2008 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.  In this short, data-rich presentation she also gives her thoughts on the economy and the current recession. 

Meeker begins the presentation with her thoughts on the economy.  She answers the question, "how did we get here?" with lots of interesting data and lets us draw our own conclusions.  This data also gives us clues about the roots of our economic challenges and how long the current recession might last.  Advertising and technology are closely related to GDP and Meeker gives us more data to show what the current economy means for those important industries.  She points out that the market will lead and not lag the economy. 

Finally, Meeker shares with us the technologies and websites that her company is most excited about.  Mobile technology tops the list and she believes that it will be the single area in which the most wealth is created and at the same time lost.  She closes this informative presentation by giving us a forcast for future opportunities and clues about what companies will survive.    


Mary Meeker is a managing director and serves as leader of Morgan Stanley’s global technology research team. Meeker co-covers U.S.-based internet and consumer software companies including Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, eBay, and Amazon.com.

Meeker was an early and consistent believer in opportunities related to the development of the Internet. She has authored and coauthored numerous books and reports about the Internet including: The Internet Report, 1995; The Internet Advertising Report, 1996; The Internet Retailing Report, 1997; The Online Classified Advertising Report: It’s About Search / Find / Obtain (SFO), 2002; The China Internet Report, 2004 and 2005; and The Technology IPO Yearbook. All in, hundreds of thousands of copies of these reports are in circulation.

Meeker holds a B.A. from DePauw University and an M.B.A. in finance from Cornell University. She joined Morgan Stanley in 1991.

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