#6 Mary Meeker

Mary Meeker on Forbes

Mary Meeker joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in December 2010. She focuses on investments in the firm’s digital practice and helps lead KP’s Digital Growth Funds, targeting high-growth Internet companies that have achieved rapid adoption and scale. Mary serves on the boards of Square, Lending Club and DocuSign and has been involved in KP’s investments in Ring, Airbnb, Pinterest, Stance, Instacart, Slack, Snap, NextDoor, Houzz, SoundCloud, Trendyol, Spotify, LegalZoom, Jawbone and Affectiva. She also led KPCB’s investments in Bitstrips (acquired by Snap), Waze (acquired by Google / Alphabet), JD.com (NASDAQ: JD), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB).

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There is no president of the Internet. But there is a queen. That only-somewhat-exaggerated sobriquet belongs to Mary Meeker, the 53-year-old financial analyst turned venture capitalist.

Mary Meeker on Forbes

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner Mary Meeker presented her famous state-of-the-internet slide deck today at the Code Conference. In more than 200 slides, she outlined the latest trends in mobile, commerce, transportation and advertising. Watch Meeker present and comment here in its entirety, or read the highlights here.

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Mary Meeker joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in December 2010. She focuses on investments in the firm’s digital practice and helps lead KPCB’s Digital Growth Funds, targeting high-growth Internet companies that have achieved rapid adoption and scale. Mary serves on the boards of Square, Lending Club and DocuSign and has been involved in KPCB’s investments in SoundCloud, LegalZoom, Spotify, Twitter, Instacart, NextDoor, Stance, slack, Bitstrips, Houzz, Affectiva, One Kings Lane, Trendyol and Jawbone. She also previously led KPCB’s investments in Waze (acquired by Google), JD.com (NASDAQ: JD), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB).

The internet is slowing down, messaging is taking on the home screen, and voice search is big.

Mary Meeker (born September 1959) is an American venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst. Her primary work is on Internet and new technologies. She is a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.[1][2] In 2014, she was listed as the 77th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[3]