What the Meeker Report Means for Churches
Yesterday, the annual "Meeker Report", as it is colloquially referred to, was released by Mary Meeker, venture partner at Kleiner Perkins. If you are a pastor and that sentence immediately left you feeling alienated, let me explain. Mary Meeker is widely considered one of the smartest people in tech, and each year, as a part of a Venture Capital company called Kleiner Perkins, she releases an epic, in-depth slide deck presentation she calls her "Internet Trends" report. This presentation outlines thoroughly researched trends in technology from the past year and is a tech aficionado's dream. The trends that Mary Meeker points out can make or break a fledgling startup's ability to get funding. The Meeker Report is full of statistics, complicated graphs, forecasts of new tech adoption, and analysis on a wide-array of topics. It has become a de facto State of the Union for the Tech Industry and is widely cited and shared across not just the tech sector, but the entire business community. This year, the Meeker Report was 355 slides long, and covered topics like mobile growth, smartphone adoption, voice recognition technology, media disruption growth (Netflix), and had entire sections for China and India's tech growth. If you want to read through the entire document, here it is.