Hold on to your smartphones—she's been criticized for talking too fast with too many ideas before and she intends to do it again now. Mary Meeker, formerly managing director at Morgan Stanley and now partner at famed Internet venture firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, reports on Internet trends. She tries for twelve trends in twelve minutes.
Meeker illustrates the phenomenon of ever-quicker adoption of devices, from AM radio to TV to PCs, the Internet, and mobile, even through periods of recession. She remarks on the adoption of both the Internet and mobile in a single generation. E-commerce continues to ramp up, taking share from traditional purchases, with many surprises regarding the players who have hung in and newcomers.
One of the next big things, says Meeker, is the development of audio on the Internet, with all manner of voice-in, voice-out, and audio products, for people who have hands and eyes busy, but ears free, for a fixed portion of the day, and otherwise, to focus attention on many market offerings.
Mary Meeker is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. She was managing director and research analyst at Morgan Stanley from 1991 to 2010. Since beginning her career as a securities analyst in 1986, Mary has focused on emerging technology trends and companies.
Mary is co-author of the industry-defining books, The Internet Report (1995) and The Internet Advertising Report (1996), and co-author of The Internet Retailing Report (1997), The Online Classified Advertising Report: It’s About Search / Find / Obtain (SFO) (2002), The China Internet Report (2004), The Mobile Internet Report (2009), USA Inc., a non-partisan report that looks at the U.S. government (and its financials) from a business perspective (2011), and The Technology IPO Yearbook.
She has covered
companies that have created more than 200,000 jobs over the past 25
years while the companies increased their collective market value by
more than $900 billion, as of February, 2011. These companies include
Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Adobe, Intuit, Electronic Arts, Activision,
Yahoo!, Amazon.com, eBay, priceline.com, Google and Alibaba.
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