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Managing director, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
AGE 38
ADDRESS 1585
Broadway, New York, N.Y.
BIO One of Wall Street's star
technology-stock analysts, Meeker is perhaps best known for
naming Microsoft, America Online, Compaq and Dell as good buys
when their stock prices were at a pittance, only to watch the
issues reap windfalls for those who took her advice. Her
influential Internet Report, Internet Advertising Report,
Internet Retailing Report and most recent The Technology ipo
Yearbook have helped cement her reputation as an authority on one
of the fastest-growing--if volatile and bizarrely valued--sectors
in the history of the stock market. More than 150,000 copies of
her books are said to be in circulation.
1998 POWER PLAY A
longtime cheerleader for Amazon.com, Meeker helped secure a
high-yield debt deal for the online bookseller, whose market cap
keeps climbing despite the company's inability to turn a profit.
Meeker was also instrumental in Broadcast.com's August ipo. The
company, whose website offers streaming audio and video, made
history with a stock-price rise of 248% in four hours of trading.
PLACE YOUR BETS When making investment decisions, remember
Meeker's mantra: with Internet stocks, there will be only a few
huge winners and hundreds of losers. But the wealth created by
the winners can more than make up for the mistakes. She calls
this theory the "Wal-Marting of the Web."
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