Influential technology analyst Mary Meeker has joined one of Silicon Valley’s most respected venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner.
The move marks the end of an era when investment banks employed high-powered analysts to bring insight to technology trends for their wealthy clients. Meeker, who leaves Morgan Stanley to join Kleiner, was one of a generation of bank analysts who emerged as an early champion of the Internet in the 1990s, and whose excitement about the potential of Internet stocks fueled exuberance that made her banking clients millions, if not billions of dollars — but which later backfired when the stock market crashed in 2000.
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Author: Matt Marshall
