11 Facts About Mary Meeker

Mary Meeker was born on September 1959 and is an American venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst.

In 2023, Meeker ranked 85th in Forbes list of "World's 100 most powerful women".

Mary Meeker's father Gordon was a "golf nut", which led to Meeker becoming captain of the golf team at Jay County High School; she credits her "intense and competitive" father for her type-A personality.

Mary Meeker worked for Cowen from 1990 to 1991 before moving to Morgan Stanley to specialize in covering the personal computer and consumer software industries.

Mary Meeker was vilified in the press as one of a number of star analysts who were questioned in fraud investigations after the dotcom bubble burst in 2000 to 2002.

Mary Meeker was named "one of the ten smartest people in tech" by Fortune magazine in 2010.

In December 2010 Mary Meeker left her position as a managing director at Morgan Stanley and head of the bank's global technology research team to become a partner at the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins, where she has participated in over 20 different deals.

Mary Meeker serves on the boards of electronic signature provider DocuSign, mobile payments company Square, Inc.

Mary Meeker was one of the witnesses in the Ellen Pao gender discrimination lawsuit.

In September 2018, Mary Meeker left Kleiner to start her own venture capital firm, Bond Capital, which is headquartered in San Francisco.

Mary Meeker published it every year since 1995 when she was a tech analyst at Morgan Stanley up until 2019.