Most of life’s encounters, good or bad in social welfare, present us each individually with the opportunity to choose our own long term benefits and detriments. By circumstance, I was exposed professionally to see Mary Meeker’s high times at Morgan Stanley while the ink was still wet on my undergraduate diploma. I’ll call loosely the phenomenon “Mary’s World”. In the spirit of the Holiday Season, I’d like to offer “Thanks” for the wisdom provided by a youthful exposure to Mary’s World.