Editor?s note:� This guest post is written by Aileen Lee, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. �Aileen focuses on investing in early stage consumer internet ventures and previously �worked at Gap, Odwalla, The Northface and Morgan Stanley.� She was also founding CEO of KP-backed RMG Networks.� Full disclosure: some of the companies mentioned below are KP-backed companies. �You can read more about Aileen at KPCB.com and follow her on twitter at @aileenlee. It feels like we?re in a Golden Age of the web, led by consumer internet services and e-commerce. �Just consider these stats: Facebook?over 600 million users.� Twitter?25 billion tweets last year. Tumblr?1 billion page views a week. �Zynga?100 million users on Cityville in just 6 weeks.� We?re witnessing a generation of consumer web companies growing at an unprecedented rate in terms of both user adoption and revenue. But here's a little secret that's gone unnoticed by most.� It?s women.��Female users are the unsung heroines behind the most engaging, fastest growing, and most valuable consumer internet and e-commerce companies. �Especially when it comes to social and shopping, women rule the Internet.
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