The Mt. Everest of PowerPoints: Meeker KPCB 2015
May 31, 2015
You Internet user you, download and read “Internet Trends 2015” by Mary Meeker of KPCB. In case you forgot, that’s the outfit which a certain female found wanting. Ms. Meeker seems to be a happy and productive camper in terms of PowerPoint outputs.
I have no problem with the data on the slides. In fact, even though some of the data may be a bit difficult to verify, the overall messages are clear. I would summarize the 196 page deck with this summary:
Yo, mobile is important.
Your takeaways from this tour de PowerPoint are likely to be different from mine.
For me, the complainers who want PowerPoint outlawed may have to do some extra work to convince Ms. Meeker and her merrie band to ditch the slide presentation habit.
The slides lack the élan of some of the decks released by the poster boy for leaking classified information, but there are a couple of nifty touches.
I liked this slide a great deal. It is similar to a Van Gogh sunflower:
In case you are wondering, the USA is the red line. If you are color blind, well, you may be out of luck with the blue, green, and gold lines.
But the Starry Night equivalent is this gem:
Data? Who needs data?
I am looking forward to the 2016 edition. The US government PowerPoints have to meet this new benchmark in communication.
Stephen E Arnold, May 31, 2015
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