Rebecca Kaden, general partner, Maveron: “2016 was the year the internet quietly sped up — while the ease of online video is now a given, broadband speeds made a record jump step that will make possible the next post-video wave of high consumption media. For the first time, download speeds improved 42% and crossed 50 Mbps, making it 1,000 times faster than dial up (and twice as fast as Netflix recommends to stream ultra HD quality video.) So while we may not need or notice this advancement now, it opens up possibilities for new media consumption that were previously impossible.”