Fani Kiran Vulapalli

During my senior year of high school I stopped speaking to my best friend. She was playing the role of California in our U.S. Government class and I was the Democratic Candidate for President. She ended up casting all of California’s electoral votes for the Republican candidate. This put my entire fake presidential candidacy at risk. I was enraged. She tried to calm me down telling me it was, “Just a game.” That meant nothing to me. This was literally all I had going on in my life. I only had my academics and even those were not especially great. I only felt truly confident in American Government and English. All of my self-worth rested squarely on these two things alone. If I can’t be the best at something, I don’t want to do it. As you can probably imagine this often leaves me incredibly disappointed. I want to achieve effortless perfection. The kind I imagine in the people I look up to. I tell myself if I was truly good at something, I wouldn’t have to try so hard all t...

In May of 2013, KPCB’s Partner and world-renowned analyst Mary Meeker shared her latest Internet Trends Report. In that report, Ms. Meeker shared an interesting stat: “The average mobile consumer checks their device 150 times a day”.  That number raised a few eyebrows and led many analysts to question the difference between existing smartphones and highly anticipated “Wearables”. In this report, we have used data from Flurry Analytics to analyze the behavior of consumers that heavily use their smartphones or tablets, a segment we refer to as the “Mobile Addict”. We have defined a “Mobile Addict” as a consumer that launches apps more than 60 times per day. Looking at data Flurry sees from 500,000 apps across 1.3B devices as of March 2014, we know that on average, a consumer launches apps 10 times per day. So we have defined a “Mobile Addict” as someone who launches apps 6 times more per day than the average. Mobile Addicts Are Multiplying The chart below shows the year-over-y...