[ghaff]

Mary and others like Steve Milunovich at Morgan Stanley were in a rather unique place and time 15 years ago because the Internet was just becoming this very-important-thing and very few people really understood it. Today's a lot different. That said, this presentation is widely viewed as pretty important annual snapshot of certain trends. Note though that Mary is at KPCB [Edit: Corrected] these days so her focus is presumably a bit different than when she was employed in financial services.

[yvsong]

Very impressive and helpful data/charts in the KPCB report. That being said, there is a saying on Wall St that if an economist (or anyone) could predict future, she wouldn't need any employment. One usually gets wiser as she ages, but I don't think predicting future is easier than 15 years ago.

[cschmidt]

I think you mean KPCB, or else she still would be in financial services of a sort.

[ghaff]

Duh. You're right of course. Corrected.

[mathattack]

At MS she was in the business of hyping their tech equities. What's her role now? Creating hype around the KPCB brand? I assume she's not an active investor.