Mary Meeker

Gambling Man

by Lionel Barber  · 3 Oct 2024  · 424pp  · 123,730 words

of dot-com research at Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street powerhouse. From that day on, the word was with Henry Blodget.1 Another influencer was Mary Meeker, the Morgan Stanley analyst dubbed the Queen of the Internet. She declared it was time to be ‘recklessly rational’, whatever that meant. Morgan Stanley was

Wall Street Meat

by Andy Kessler  · 17 Mar 2003  · 270pp  · 75,803 words

Fixer 219 5 Afterword 233 Index 247 About the Author Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher Foreword by Michael Lewis J ack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, Mary Meeker, and Henry Blodget, were Wall Street’s best-known promoters of the Internettelecom boom. A few years ago, they were spoken of in a single

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keeps riding Worldcom to new highs—I think I saw it crack $65 this morning. Deals galore flow from Frank Quattrone at CS First Boston. Mary Meeker at Morgan Stanley discovers an Internet company a week to feel good about. It’s hard to find time to even think. We are doing

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what’s going on. The next Monday morning, this same woman poked her head into my office and Something about Mary said, “Hi, I’m Mary Meeker. I’m just starting today. How do you get a PC around here?” My response: “Welcome aboard.” For some reason, that was the official greeting

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, and you can’t wait for someone else new to start so you can start saying it instead of having it pounded in your ears. Mary Meeker came from Cowen, a so-so boutique that had a decent technology presence. She was an assistant to Michele Preston, the somewhat outdated computer analyst

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way as she did and they liked the feel of her reports. Hey, whatever works. I would often tell people that I used to carry Mary Meeker’s bags, so a lot of folks thought I worked for her. But I really did carry her bags. I would show up at JFK

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of Compaq computer, and added lots of zeros to his net worth. Note to self: see if this whole Ben Rosen thing is worth emulating. · · · Mary Meeker kept doing deals, which enhanced her reputation with institutions. They figured she knew more about Intuit, for example, than anyone, and would call her to

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D.C., before boarding the shuttle plane back to LaGuardia. Over time, this grueling trip added a stop in Wayne, Pennsylvania, home to Pilgrim Baxter. Mary Meeker and I were on one of these trips that found us in the office of Gary Pilgrim, whose name was on the door. “Tell me

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at home.” Finally, I got tired of the half-day comment and started replying, “It only takes me a quarter day, what’s your problem?” Mary Meeker was one of those stay-all-night analysts. I’m not sure why. Maybe the most creative thoughts came late at night. Maybe she was

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,” I said. “You know, Andy, I just don’t understand. We made George Kelly into the analyst he is today, and are about to make Mary Meeker into a top analyst. Why don’t you let us do that for you?” “Got it, Frankie,” I said. I think I said “asshole” after

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Quattrone called. “I can’t even believe it, but John Sculley wants to see you and me in his office next week. I’ve invited Mary Meeker and Bill Brady to the meeting, too. Let’s work up something unique for him, he could do lots of business.” The four of us

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they liked my views, but they needed investors, not investment bankers. I started thinking that I was in the wrong business. · · · 158 Something about Mary Mary Meeker started doing better with the sales force. Her calls got better, and some stocks she recommended actually went up. She got good at being an

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never again, and beat up his bankers to dig deep to find problems at companies and then run away at the hint of any improprieties. Mary Meeker had an analytical crew she could count on to wade through due diligence and analysis of banking clients, but I don’t think she ever

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felt comfortable with her own analysis. The bankers were her filters. Bad move. · · · Just after the Institutional Investor poll had come out, I stopped into Mary Meeker’s office with some advice about how it was all a marketing game and how she could use the sales force to her advantage. Her

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Trip Hawkins and backed by Kleiner Perkins, AT&T and TimeWarner, wanted to go public and picked us. They were my deals, but Frankie got Mary Meeker involved with both of them, which annoyed me a bit, but then I stopped caring. The deals were great for me, but unfortunately, a little

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me. I had seen the writing on the wall. Frank Quattrone and, to be fair, the whole firm, were more interested in banking analysts like Mary Meeker and George Kelly than in stock picking analysts. I was getting dinged for not bringing in more deals, until Avid and 3DO came along, albeit

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Wall Street analyst. It would take several years of detox to get it out of my system. My friends Jack Grubman and Frank Quattrone and Mary Meeker would all become superstars. At the end of the day, I was glad not to be one of them. 164 C H A P T

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markets at Salomon Brothers. One of his first hires was Jack Grubman, out of Paine Webber. That gave me a good chuckle. Wall Street Meat Mary Meeker kept cranking out her emotional tirades. She was still scouring the Valley with Frank Quattrone looking for deals. They did a few, nothing really interesting

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what was clearly going to be a hot, hot, hot IPO, sure to pop soon after trading began. Near Frank, you would have also observed Mary Meeker, chatting with a small clique of clients who were badgering her for earning estimates, growth prospects and, I suppose, how she really felt about the

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billionaire, not because I had had a shot at being involved (man, I could write a book about that), and not because Frank Quattrone and Mary Meeker were involved. It scared me because it was worth so damn much. The market was valuing Netscape at $2.2 billion. This for a brand

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. He did try to hire George Kelly, but George was too close to retirement to start something new. Frank really lamented when he talked about Mary Meeker, whom he tried hard to hire. She wouldn’t budge. Morgan Stanley finally figured out they were being raided and set up retention plans for

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, for a modest 7% fee. · · · One of the first high profile deals Frank won was Amazon.com, an online bookseller in Seattle. Morgan Stanley and Mary Meeker put on the big push to get the deal, which, like Netscape, was backed by Kleiner Perkins and venture capitalist John Doerr, who was as

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in dotcoms, but staying down the food chain. My biggest laugh was when I received an issue of Barron’s at the end of 1998. Mary Meeker was on the cover, and labeled the “Queen of the Net.” Fred remarked to me that most Queens eventually get beheaded. In order to keep

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justify higher stock prices. Eternal happiness. The ducks spread beyond stock funds. The bond guys wanted a piece of the action, too. Morgan Stanley and Mary Meeker got back in the good graces of Amazon.com. They suggested to Amazon that their stock would be going higher

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— Mary Meeker had a Buy rating to prove it—so don’t sell more 186 Price Targets as a Marketing Tool stock to the public, sell a

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had funded GeoCities, that skanky Goldman IPO, which was sold for tons to Yahoo. I told Cramer that Street research was conflicted. He nodded agreement. Mary Meeker was an invention of the system to sell deals. Cramer got up from his chair and started pacing the room. Investors needed unconflicted research, and

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started flinging pencils over my head. Wall Street was going horizontal, and would need independent research. Amen. TheStreet.com didn’t need to hire a Mary Meeker—they needed to invent one themselves. Cramer started grunting loudly. It wouldn’t even be all that hard. Jerry disagreed. Fred thought out both sides

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, the company expanded in London, spending $15 million setting up the office and site and sales force to sell ads. They could have hired 30 Mary Meeker clones, one of whom would surely have hit. I sold my shares. No lockup. · · · Others came in to fill the vacuum. Independent research has always

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the right thing by hanging up my analyst cleats? That could be me running a conference and lining up money for companies. Watching Jack and Mary Meeker be the toast of the town was awkward. Of course, I could have easily screwed up and been a bit player on Wall Street, too

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was stealing the old “Bob Cornell recounting Ben Rosen freezing with a pile of pink phone message slips” story. I’m not bashful. I called Mary Meeker to offer her the same advice. She didn’t return my call. But Henry stayed unfrozen. He never did pull his Buy recommendations, but he

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that Merrill was offering to reduce 225 Wall Street Meat headcount. He joined to huge fanfare, and in the end, slipped out the back door. Mary Meeker, on the other hand, decided to stick it out. Several class action suits naming her were thrown out. There are probably plenty more where they

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came from. Mayree Clark, the director of research at Morgan Stanley, put out a press release saying, “Our research is thorough and objective, and Mary Meeker’s integrity is beyond reproach.” Something bothers me about this quote. It is unsatisfying. It got Mary off the hook, but has no meaning, almost

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. My mistake. I suppose Spitzer succeeded in exposing analyst dirt. But he turned Jack Grubman, Henry Blodget and Frank Quattrone (and to a lesser extent Mary Meeker) into the 228 Spitzer Fixer smoking guns that shot the poker players. He made it seem as if they were personally to blame for individuals

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securities business and is probably too old to revive his boxing career. Frank Quattrone faces civil charges of improperly allocating IPO shares and controlling research. Mary Meeker is still an analyst, with integrity beyond reproach according to her boss. Henry Blodget quit Merrill Lynch and is back to being a journalist. The

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along for the ride because of the revolution taking place in telecom. His reputation suffered, and then everybody turned on him when things went sour. Mary Meeker may think investors were impressed that she was involved with the Netscape IPO, but clients recognized the shift in her job function from analyst to

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Paine Webber (intro), 5–18 in Far East, 150–52, 233 as hardware and software analyst, 127–29 Institutional Investor listing, 79–81, 143 and Mary Meeker, 132–36, 152 media coverage of, 63–64, 67 recruitment by Morgan Stanley, 84–87 reputation of, 243, 246 as strategist, 153–54 251 Index

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, 221–24 civil charges pending, 231 CS First Boston and, 179–80 Deutsche Bank and, 169–71, 178–79 “friends of Frank” accounts, 190, 222 Mary Meeker and, 135, 155, 166, 171 Netscape and, 166–67 Synopsys and, 139 Qwest, 219, 220, 221 254 Real Networks, 175, 177 Redstone, Sumner, 154 Reed

The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street

by Jonathan A. Knee  · 31 Jul 2006  · 362pp  · 108,359 words

the boom’s impact on investment banking and investment bankers generally sometimes took outsized shape at Morgan Stanley because of a single individual: Mary Meeker, Queen of the Net.12 Mary Meeker had been a fairly undistinguished PC and computer software research analyst in the early 1990s, slaving away on reports covering companies like

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probably never suspected the extent to which at Morgan Stanley many not so secretly wished they could give her away. The problem was that having Mary Meeker at Morgan Stanley created client expectations that simply could not be fulfilled. This was partly a function of the overwhelming demand for all things Meeker

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exponentially expanded Mary’s potential reach. And given her unique place in the new economy, no one, it seemed, was willing to say “no” to Mary Meeker. In my world, media, the problem this created became quite acute, as it seemed every client we had was trying to recharacterize themselves as some

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the history of media or that they added to the general pool of human knowledge. In a 2001 article, Fortune’s Peter Elkind argued that “Mary Meeker got so caught up in the allure of the Internet—the celebrity, the money, the thrill of dealmaking—that she forgot that she was supposed

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fragile Jerry Levin. 12 Mary was so dubbed by Barron’s in an influential December 21, 1998, article by Andrew Barry titled “Net Queen: How Mary Meeker Came to Rule the Internet.” 13 De Baubigny later founded a high-end wine storage business in San Francisco, where he continues to work today

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of follow-on volumes to the original Internet Report. None of these subsequent equity research reports managed to be published commercially. 15 Peter Elkind, “Where Mary Meeker Went Wrong,” Fortune, May 14, 2001. 16 E.g., Randall Smith, “High Tech Banker Scores Deals With Mule and ‘Rocky Raccoon,’” Wall Street Journal, September

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

by Ken Auletta  · 1 Jan 2009  · 532pp  · 139,706 words

with a May 1995 memo, “The Internet Tidal Wave,” warning of this disruptive technology. The year 1995 was also when a Morgan Stanley analyst named Mary Meeker teamed up with a fellow analyst, Chris DePuy, to author The Internet Report, a thick volume that heralded a brave new world. “In this report

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financing to pump money into a four-year-old company that had yet to have a profitable year. Among the people Sandberg spoke with was Mary Meeker, the author of the seminal Internet report at Morgan Stanley. Their discussions, Meeker said, made her take greater notice of Google. “Before Sheryl arrived,” said

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-offs. Total marketing spending—direct mail, event marketing, public relations, etcetera—dropped 1.7 percent in 2008. In a December 2008 report, Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker produced a chart that should alarm traditional media. Titled “Media Time Spent vs. Ad Spend Out of Whack,” the chart reveals that advertising expenditures don

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rest in Treasury bills), to renegotiate contracts, and to be honest with employees but “keep up their hope.” There were some at this conference, like Mary Meeker, whose optimism about the Web was unwavering. Although Meeker gave an unremittingly bleak analysis of the American economy at large, she offered a euphoric analysis

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and scaled back, this executive said. “While Google’s success is hard to dispute, I don’t think they are a particularly well-managed company,” Mary Meeker said. “Part of the problem was that Larry and Sergey didn’t need to care about the numbers because growth was so steady and the

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have listened to you. It would have been the wrong question to ask at that time.” In a March 2009 Morgan Stanley conference interview with Mary Meeker, Eric Schmidt said, “Patrick is particularly good at business reviews, so we’ve been going through systematically business after business. In our hypergrowth period, we

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dating service Match.com has nearly 1.5 million paid subscribers. By mid-2008, China was generating $2.5 billion in online video game revenues. Mary Meeker predicts, “Ultimately, while advertising will remain the primary revenue driver for Internet content companies, I think we’ll find more and more examples of people

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time they are going to need to have a crisp vision of who they are and where they’re going, and focus on that.” Although Mary Meeker believes Google is a great company, she offers another caution: the power and precariousness of a culture shaped by its founders. When founders stay involved

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Internet Tidal Wave,” May 25, 1995, and available via a Google search. 36 “In this report”: Mary Meeker and Chris DePuy, The Internet Report, HarperBusiness, 1996. 37 “He had a dial-up Web connection”: author interview with Mary Meeker, January 23, 2009. 37 twenty-two billion dollars on wireless services: Mark Landler, “An Aerial

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... “all things take care of themselves”: author interviews with Sheryl Sandberg, September 10, 2007, and September 18, 2008. 87 “Before Sheryl arrived”: author interview with Mary Meeker, January 23, 2009. 87 Advertising ... had not been viewed “as a priority”: author interview with Eric Schmidt, October 9, 2007. 87 offered five million dollars

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almost 7 percent”: Tim Bradshaw, “Global Ad Spending to Fall 7%, Publicis Unit Warns,” Financial Times, April 14, 2009. 261 In a December 2008 report: Mary Meeker Morgan Stanley report, “Economy/ Internet Trends,” December 19, 2008. CHAPTER 14: Happy Birthday (2008-2009) 262 The first show was a new animation series: Brooks

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. Vascellaro and Robert A. Guth, “Google Tackles Microsoft in Launch of Browser,” Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2008. 265 “ten thousand iPhone applications: reproduced in Mary Meeker’s Morgan Stanley report, ”Economy/Internet Trends,“ December 19, 2008. 265 1.6 billion text messages: Schmidt speaks at annual Google shareholders meeting, May 8

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thing that happened at Google“: author interview with Bill Campbell, November 6, 2008. 272 ”While Google’s success is hard to dispute“: author interview with Mary Meeker, January 23, 2009. 272 ”When everything runs well“: author interview with Patrick Pichette, April 1, 2009. 272 ”Patrick is particularly good“: Eric Schmidt interviewed by

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Mary Meeker March 3, 2009, at the Morgan Stanley conference in San Francisco. 272 a bonus for 2008 of $1.2 million: Form 8-K, filed with

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‘s”: author interview with Quincy Smith, September 16, 2008. 302 The online dating service: author interview with Barry Diller, March 3, 2009. 302 Mary Meeker predicts: author interview with Mary Meeker, January 23, 2009. 302 By mid-2008 China: “China’s Internet Cafes Still Crucial to Online Game Growth,” VentureBeat.com, August 17, 2008

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, January 22, 2008. 333 “Google is like that fourteen-year-old”: author interview with Strauss Zelnick, January 9, 2008. 334 Although Mary Meeker believes Google is a great company: author interview with Mary Meeker, January 23, 2009. 334 “There is nothing about their model”: author interview with Clayton Christensen, April 17, 2009. 335 “There

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara  · 8 Jul 2019

woman whose unerring instinct for Internet picks gave her the title “Queen of the Net”—was a thirty-five-year-old Morgan Stanley analyst named Mary Meeker. Just like Ben Rosen and his microcomputers one generation earlier, the Indiana native had been doing deep-dive research on the Internet while no one

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of the Analyst is dead,” announced The New Yorker in 2001, less than two years after it had published a long and adulatory profile of Mary Meeker. Although the Queen of the Net had started modulating her excitement as the millennium approached, many of her big picks plunged by more than 90

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could be done. “The Valley’s fearlessness is coming back,” Andreessen told a reporter.9 Also coming back: the star analysts of 1990s Wall Street. Mary Meeker had never flagged in her faith in the Internet, even amid the plunging prices and shareholder lawsuits of the dot-com bust. Nor had Ruth

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at the cost of missed opportunities in social and mobile, despite the fact that it had beefed up its consumer-Internet credentials by hiring on Mary Meeker. Then Doerr and his firm were hit by even worse news: a junior partner named Ellen Pao filed a sex bias suit against the company

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, Meeker abruptly quit, bringing along several other of its senior late-stage investors to start a new venture firm under her own leadership. Theodore Schleifer, “Mary Meeker, the Legendary Internet Analyst, Is Leaving Kleiner Perkins,” Recode, September 14, 2018, https://www.recode.net/2018/9/14/17858582/kleiner-perkins

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-mary-meeker-split, archived at https://perma.cc/FJ8S-DVUM. 11. Jesse Drucker, “Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments,” The New York Times, November

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

by Sebastian Mallaby  · 1 Feb 2022  · 935pp  · 197,338 words

home runs of the era: Uber, Dropbox, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Stripe, and so on. The one standout Kleiner success in this period involved the hiring of Mary Meeker, the former Morgan Stanley analyst who had pioneered the evaluation of digital businesses. Unlike the other established fifty-somethings who arrived at the partnership around

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in the financial crisis of 1998, Milner had read a pile of investment bank studies, seeking career inspiration. Among them was an internet report by Mary Meeker, then Morgan Stanley’s star tech analyst. At the time, nobody in Russia was talking about the internet, and Milner himself did not even use

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Capital, and Morgan Stanley. Silicon Valley venture firms such as Kleiner Perkins joined too; Kleiner had recently signaled its enthusiasm for growth deals by hiring Mary Meeker. In June 2011, shortly after posing for the cover of the annual Forbes edition listing the world’s billionaires, Milner led a round for the

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following year. As smartphones became ubiquitous, dialing over the internet became almost as simple as dialing over traditional phone lines; Skype suddenly resembled one of Mary Meeker’s metaphorical surfboards, a platform exquisitely designed to catch the latest tech wave. Recognizing Skype’s promise, Microsoft swooped in to buy the firm for

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TO NOTE REFERENCE 24 In 1983, an estimated 200 machines were connected to the internet. In 1989, the number was still only 159,000. See Mary Meeker and Chris DePuy, “The Internet Report,” Morgan Stanley Research, Feb. 1996, 18. See also Janet Abbate, Inventing the Internet (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000), 186

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2005 to 2009, Doerr was listed first or second on the Midas List. But in 2015 he came thirtieth, and only one other Kleiner partner (Mary Meeker) featured in the top fifty; two other KP partners, Beth Seidenberg and Ted Schlein, ranked ninety-first and ninety-ninth. The 2020 Midas List showed

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account of Kleiner’s internal culture draws on interviews with numerous partners, including Brook Byers, Frank Caufield, Kevin Compton, John Doerr, Vinod Khosla, Aileen Lee, Mary Meeker, Ted Schlein, and Trae Vassallo. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 43 Frank Caufield, interview by the author, May 15, 2018. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 44 Khosla

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in Venture Capital,” SSRN, May 2014, ssrn.com/abstract=2445497. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 65 The four ex-Kleiner women running their own firms were Mary Meeker, Aileen Lee, Beth Seidenberg, and Trae Vassallo. The first three were also on the Midas List in 2018, 2019, and 2020, with Meeker ranked among

Nothing but Net: 10 Timeless Stock-Picking Lessons From One of Wall Street’s Top Tech Analysts

by Mark Mahaney  · 9 Nov 2021  · 311pp  · 90,172 words

Morgan Stanley in 2003 in the wake of the dot-com bust, after working there for five years as the top associate to legendary analyst Mary Meeker. I was also fired by infamous hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam at Galleon for “not getting enough edge” after grinding it out in that trading

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, a Wharton Business School classmate and friend of mine, Chris Boova, was kind enough to give me some of the research reports published by one Mary Meeker, who for over a decade was the Internet analyst at Morgan Stanley. She was also the lead author of The Internet Report, a 150-page

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and Chris Boova. Yes, he was kind enough to meet me in the lobby of Morgan Stanley, where he worked, to hand me some of Mary Meeker’s research reports. But he was also kind enough to inform me that one of Meeker’s two associates was soon to be leaving and

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, Chris! What then followed was a six-month interview process that ended with me joining the Morgan Stanley equity research department as an associate to Mary Meeker. That process involved me meeting several times with the associate who was leaving—a guy named Russ Grandinetti, who was leaving for what turned out

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hundred ‘dot.com’ stocks that have performed miraculous levitations.” At the time of that publication, I was working at Morgan Stanley under famed Internet analyst Mary Meeker, trying my best to figure out whether there really was value in the Internet sector. And I vividly recall Morgan Stanley’s senior market strategist

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first day of trading was that a highly influential analyst placed a Buy recommendation on those shares that very same morning. It was my boss, Mary Meeker, then the Internet analyst at Morgan Stanley. At the time, this was a highly unusual event. Regulations barred analysts at the syndicate banks from initiating

Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . And the Rise of a New Economy

by Daniel Gross  · 7 May 2012  · 391pp  · 97,018 words

its feet, the country rediscovered the competitive advantages it has long had, advantages that lay dormant during the credit and housing boom. In February 2011 Mary Meeker, who gained fame as an Internet stock analyst at Morgan Stanley in the 1990s and has since evolved into a venture capitalist, issued what was

Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market

by Daniel Reingold and Jennifer Reingold  · 1 Jan 2006  · 506pp  · 146,607 words

President of Investor Relations Connie Weaver, Director of Investor Relations MORGAN STANLEY (1989–1993) Research Department Ed Greenberg, senior telecom analyst Rick Klugman, my associate Mary Meeker, software analyst and later, Internet analyst Mayree Clark, head of global equity research Jack Curley, head of global equity research Jay Cushman, head of domestic

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two. I made a mental note to someday figure out exactly what he was talking about. Most people credit Mary Meeker with first educating Wall Street about the Internet. I sat next to Mary Meeker at Morgan Stanley for several years, but she hadn’t yet discovered it when I departed for Merrill Lynch

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quickly became the biggest losers. First to fall had been the Internet analysts, the most famous of whom were Henry Blodget of Merrill Lynch and Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley. In March of 2001, Henry Blodget’s role as analyst-cum-banker was highlighted in a series of articles in The Wall

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similar lawsuits. In May 2001, Fortune ran a cover story, “Can We Ever Trust Wall Street Again?” featuring a very unflattering, sinister-looking picture of Mary Meeker.7 I didn’t know either of them very well. But I thought the accusations were still far from hitting the bull’s-eye. After

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his job began with sexually-tinged insults about—bizarrely—me! As I later learned from reporter Gasparino, who was working on a book about Jack, Mary Meeker and Henry Blodget, Carol and Jack had a special nickname for me: DW, which alternately stood for either “dimwit” or “Dickless Wonder.” Some choice! One

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, “On the Firing Line at Qwest,” Business Week, October 29, 2001, p. 72. 7. Peter Elkind with Mary Danehy, Jessica Sung, and Julie Schlosser, “Where Mary Meeker Went Wrong,” Fortune, May 14, 2001, p. 68. 8. Gretchen Morgenson, “S.E.C. Warns Investors on Analysts,” New York Times, June 30, 2001, p

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by Doug Henwood  · 9 May 2005  · 306pp  · 78,893 words

, and was eventually absorbed by the better-financed GE subsidiary in 1991. Not only did (^NBC; deliver fresh stock prices and the latest news on Mary Meeker, it also created financial TV's first sex symbol, Maria Bartiromo, "the Money Honey," as the New York Post's Page Six dubbed her. Pre

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me?" At the peak, Quattrone made as much as $100 miUion a year (Pulliam and Smith 2001). A third great synergist was Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker, who cheered her stocks as tirelessly on the way up as the did as they were losing 90% of their value. She defended her multiple

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Work," Harper's (April), pp. 59-70. Eichenwald, Kurt (2003). "Company Man to the End, After All," NewYork Times, February 9. Elkind, Peter (2001). "Where Mary Meeker Went Wrong," Fortune, May 14. Ellis, Richard (2000). "The IT Labor Shortage: Fact or Fiction," Dr. Dobb's Journal (April) <www.ddj.com/articles/2000

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