The worst slides in Mary Meeker’s trends report

The worst slides in Mary Meeker’s trends report

ByJosh Bernoff

Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends Report for Kleiner Perkins is a comprehensive and provocative collection of data about technology change. It’s also the most cluttered, visually jumbled 213-slide pileup in the history of PowerPoint. Reading this deck is like walking through a construction site in which the Hell’s Angels are putting on three simultaneous Cirque de Soleil…

Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report spawns predictable cliches

Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report spawns predictable cliches

ByJosh Bernoff

Mary Meeker’s latest 197-slide Internet Trends report is not bullshit. While some of the stats on the slides are questionable, overall it’s a pretty interesting, international grab-bag of facts. My issue is with what comes next — media and analyst cliché predictions based on those facts. In the tech world, predictions are predictable. There’s a cliché for each stage of technology…