Highlights of the Kleiner Parkins' latest report. The full report can be found here: https://www.kpcb.com/
- at 3.6B, the number of Internet users surpassed half of the world's population
- 0 growth in the smartphone sales in 2017
- 5.9hours/day spent with digital media per adult user
- despite Google and Apple’s latest release of smartphones priced at $1000, the smartphone prices are decreasing
- Twitch Streaming hours increased from 13m to 17m. Fortnite Battle Royale is the most watched game on Twitch
- Google ML Word Accuracy - 95%
- Amazon Echo installed based almost tripled in 2017 (from 11m to 31m)
- 17m nextdoor recommendations (people asking for a plumber and receiving recommendations, people posting real time news they encountered)
- Facebook annualised revenue per daily user - $34
- regulatory scrutiny increases
- Immigration remains important for U.S. tech companies. More than half of the most highly valued tech companies in the U.S. are founded by first- or second-generation immigrants. Uber, Tesla, WeWork and Wish all have first-generation founders
- ~ 3mm Uber Global Driver-partners earning on average $21/hour, 91% of them working for extra income
- ~2mm global active sellers on Etsy, 97% operate
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- 5m global active listings on Airbnb, 80% share the home in which they live, 60% of ‘Superhosts’ identify as Women
- iOS number of apps increases from less than 5000 in 2008 to 2m+ in 2018;
- cloud computing costs continue to decrease
- 55B messages/day sent on Whatsapp
- 900% query growth for “…” near me on Google between 2015-2017
- largest spend increase in 2018 will be seen in projects related to networks and AI
- USA consumers per Deloitte: 79% are willing to share personal data for ‘Clear Personal Benefit’
- actions taken by customers to address data privacy concerns: 64% deleted/avoided certain apps, 47% adjusted mobile pivacy settings, 28% disabled cookies, 26% closely read privacy agreements
- America and Europe encourage regulation. In contrast, China is encouraging data collection.
Source: https://www.recode.net/2018/5/30/17385116/mary-meeker-slides-internet-trends-code-conference-2018
or: https://www.kpcb.com/
