I got some of jeds comments. Maynard we met about five years ago as jed was beginning to think about the stadium. I went to see him and said how can i help . How do i get involved . Cory this new thing is a huge deal. When we first met, i was arguing the importance of having a stadium in San Francisco. You chose santa clara. It is interesting because it is a technical marvel if the heart of this world of technology. What do you want to do there . Jed i think we wanted to bring out the best of the bay area and really make that the staple of the stadium. Technology through sustainability. Really make levi stadium a focal point for everything that i think is great about the bay area. Cory in terms of technology what are you trying to do for the innovative experience . Jed we want to make sure it is a seamless transition going to a game. When you can use a smart phone or device to interact in everyday life, we ant to make sure that everything that is difficult about going to a game, having tickets, parking, we want to make that seamless. We want to make sure that you can use wifi to enhance your experience at a stadium. Maynard the technology is so cool that he is bundling it and creating it as a company and taking it on the road. Can you talk about that a little bit . Jed sure. The company we helped incubate was called venuenext, and levy stadium was a petri dish. Now our c. E. O. John paul is taking it to other sports and Entertainment Venues around the world. Cory interesting. In Major League Baseball they have had Great Success with that. First they started streaming and now they are streaming hbo. Do you think you have some advantage there . Jed it is revolutionizing the venue and in Game Experience for fans. It is allowing the fans to know the venue better. Cory there is a guy named mark cuban. Jed heard of him. Cory he owns the dallas mavericks. He approached a reconstruction of that has a lot of the same ideas. I do not know if he would say so, but it feels like he would say, i do not want every technology. He told bloomberg there is no question people use phones and devices at games, but they use them when they are bored. They dont want more reasons to use them. They want fewer. How do you balance that with the experience of being at the game . Jed first of all, fans are going to use the phones. That is what people use and that is what theyre going to do. Instead of having them get up and go stand in line for a beer, you can have it delivered for you. Instead of standing in line for a restroom, you can use the phone and say, the line is red and two sections down it is green. It is easier to get in and out. You want to make sure that again, those points are taken out of the live venue experience. Maynard one thing i use is i get to control which play i want to replay and when and how. So often, you are on a break and waiting for the camera to come back. I can look at a play and replay it any time. Cory i was really struck. I went to a couple games at levi stadium and i caught some great weather and there was a lot of fun. I went to a game with crummy weather in seattle, where my favorite team, the 49ers is playing in seattle. It was a great game. Unfortunately they lost, but the difference i noticed was particularly this new stadium. The seats at levi stadium were pretty empty right after halftime. In seattle, it was packed and they were passionate and loud and i thought that gave the team an advantage. Do you think about developing technology and how it will affect what is happening on the field . The 12th man is an important deal for every stadium. Jed again, that is part of the technology, getting people to stay in their seats and not have to leave and go back to the bar and go somewhere else. For the first year at levi stadium, they are still trying to figure at the venue and figure out everything that work and does not work at levi stadium. It is a lot different than candlestick. From zero amenities to a lot of amenities. Trying to transition to the next generation and really making levi the new home of the 49ers. Cory the super bowl, are the niners going to be in it and what are you going to do to get them ready . Jed we have a long way to go for the 49ers. For the bay area and levi stadium, we will be the most philanthropic super bowl to take place. We are putting 2. 5 million back into the community already. The super bowl 50 fund announced that just last week. We have got everybody in the bay area working together from santa clara to san jose to San Francisco. When you offer the best of the bay area, it will be an unbelievable week. Cory here you are trying to manage one of the most important businesses flat out in a pro bowl of Business Leaders whether it is tim cook or all of the other people i cover that i will not be so nice to on the air but i think world of sometimes. You have got to be one of these managers around here. The big news of the day, a 24yearold linebacker after a breakout year. Fantastic draft pick by you guys, announcing his retirement. What do you make of Chris Borlands retirement . Jed we respect it. I love chris. He is a great kid. It is certainly a surprise to us and some teammates. You have to respect that decision. If he fears for his health and safety going forward, i do not want someone going out there and doing something i would not feel comfortable doing. I would never try to talk someone out of retirement. It was not an easy decision for him but we respect him and wish him the best. Cory you go across the defensive oriented team, you have got pat willis retiring and it is unclear what is happening with justin smith. You have Chris Borland leaving. Do we know whats happening with justin smith yet . Jed he has been working out with the guys. He is in the decisionmaking process. We obviously would love to have justin back. He has got to be comfortable going out and putting his body through it one more year, and if he is not, we will have to step up and have someone else make plays. Cory you made a tough decision about your coach. You said it was mutual and he said it wasnt. I do not really want to get into that, but when you make that kind of decision about moving forward as a leader, the fans, since we said the interview is happened, questions and emails, how could you let that guy go, even if everybody hated him . Bill belichick, we talked about it earlier, great coach. Not universally loved. Bill parcells was a great coach. Despised sometimes by his own teammates or his own players. What matters besides winning . Jed things off the field obviously matter. We are trying to win a super bowl. Everything that we do, we are trying to win a super bowl. We havent been able to do that. What were trying to do is build a team that focuses on our core strengths. Like any other company you want to talk to. You will focus on core strengths i think we got away from that little bit and tried to do too much of something that we were not. You will see them get back to the basics and let them make plays. That will give us an opportunity to get back. Cory was harbaugh not doing that . Jed you look at our offense last year. It was not where it should have been. We have better talent than what our results showed. I am not the experts in terms of calling xs and os and writing plays and doing things like that. I know our players are equipped to play the game and compete for championships. We need to make sure these things are together and moving forward and giving ourselves a chance to ultimately host and win the super bowl this year. Maynard speaking of the super bowl, what is it you would like Silicon Valley and the San Francisco bay area to do to help you make sure this is the best super bowl ever . Jed getting the 49ers there that would be a great way to make this a great super bowl for the bay area. Ultimately what you want watching mayor lee work with mayor matthews, bringing everybody together and making sure we put on the best face and working together as a unit. When you Work Together as a unit, i do not think there is a better place in the world. Cory i was a Sports Reporter for a long time. I feel sports is a metaphor that is why we all love it. It seems clear. There is a score at the end of the day. That is why i love talking about sports as a metaphor for business, when you look at you were talking about the offense as a problem for the 49ers. You hire a defensive coach. Do you look around Silicon Valley to make that make sense. The fans look at that and say, offense is a problem. Why did you hire a defensive guy . Jed that is a good question but i think the coach has seen this Team Transition from an average Football Team to a really good Football Team, trying to focus on what we have done well and making sure you have somebody who knows the quarterback well, who can run the offense, building the right staff around them, making sure we get back to running the football and making sure that we get back to doing things that colin is good at. Let him use his athleticism. Do not try to change the offense week to week. Stick to what works. Its a great question on the surface. An offensiveminded guy being your head coach. Look at bill belichick. He is a defensiveminded guy. Hes won four super bowls. A lot of coaches that have had great careers, most of them have been defensiveminded. When you look at the long game it is about making sure everything works together. Not just offense or defense and not just special teams. It is making sure all three of those phases Work Together. That is really what we want. We want an entire team of 53 and not just individual groups and units. Cory the question of leadership and making decisions. If the super bowl the only answer, is that the only way the only goal that could work . If the next coach doesnt win a super bowl, is he gone . Maynard let me talk about business. You have to produce results. Day in and day out. You have got to get voted on the Team Every Year and every day. You have to produce results. You have to make sure you build a team that can produce results for tomorrow. Cory maynard webb and jed york. Well be right back. Cory this is the best of bloomberg west. Im cory johnson. Forget football. The buzz of Silicon Valley for the last month has been sex and finance. The gender discrimination lawsuit filed by ellen pao against her former employer, the legendary firm Kleiner Perkins caufield and byers. She is seeking 16 million in damages. There have been plenty of big name witnesses from pao to kleiner partners. Mary said on the stand Kleiner Perkins is the best place to be a woman in the business. Brad, there is a great it is a story called the story that that makes the shudder. Guest kleiner is one of the brightest lights in the Venture Capital universe and it has done the best job of bringing women into the firm, of evangelizing for femaleled entrepreneurs. Here they are sort of ironically being hauled into court by one of their junior partners. It is also this is the story we have worked on this week. The trial demonstrates a lot of what the valley is talking about. In the wake of Sheryl Sandbergs lean in, not about these very visible forms of Sexual Harassment in the workplace. That is what the ellen pao case is about. Whether she was treated differently than the male partners. Cory i want to get to the specifics of the case. I think that is why this resonates. Here we are, two white dudes but that is kind of a common scene in Silicon Valley, where men far outnumber women, where white dudes and asian men outnumber women as well in the workplace. Guest when the case was filed it was before lean in and before tech Company Started releasing their dismal statistics showing less than 30 of their workforce was female. It is a world in which it is called out when you make calls. Everything is very sensitive to all the things mentioned in the case. Like where she sat at the table and whether she was told she had to take notes, even though she should have been at the same level as the men. That is really the thing people look at here and think, i have seen myself in that. I have talked to a lot of women in tech and i do not know what happened to ellen pao, but i do know that looks a little bit like me. Cory lets look at the specific case. She is alleging that she was kept out of meetings, that she did not get the same seats on the board that males got. Is that the essence of her case . Guest there is more to it. I think one of the more powerful allegations, she said it this week, the kind of behavior she was criticized for was exactly the kind of behavior prized in the male partners. Being combative, having strong opinions, having sharp elbows with colleagues. She had negative performance reviews. She is alleging there was a double standard. There are other complicated parts of this case that make it a trial. She had a consensual affair with a coworker and after they broke up, the coworker made her life miserable and that the firm was too slow to fire that coworker. Cory lets talk about that affair and what that meant to the business. This is a senior partner at the firm, a married senior partner at the firm. A few salacious details emerging from the trial that seems to be a central part of the complaint, that in some way, it was consensual but should not have been allowed in that they were treated differently when it came out. Guest yeah, in this case, it is interesting to look at ellen pao. She is not some perfect symbol of a woman who was wronged. She is a complicated character. She had an affair. Sometimes, maybe she didnt do everything to get deals done and she is saying, you should have listened to me when i did this or that, but a lot of the trials are really hinging on, is she likable . Is she somebody that we can trust . Is she somebody in a position to be at the firm, whether or not she is a woman, just raced on her personality . That makes it a lot murkier. Cory in the world of finance, it is interesting to me. Mary worked for years and years and years at morgan stanley. She was an analyst when that was a junior position. She made some she made some really bad calls in her early days and plenty of good ones. I am sure she heard of that from the trading floors where the environment is anything but warm and welcoming. Especially to women. When she compared what perkins was like having left a career at wall street, she said it was fantastic. Guest thats right. And i think that is one of the ironies here is that they have done a better job not only in investment banks, but at other Venture Capital firms. If you look at the website, they look like the directories of the moose lodge from 1912. Cory well be right back with more of the best of bloomberg west. Cory im cory johnson. This is the best of bloomberg west. Here are some of the stories that made headlines in Technology Last week. Godaddy plans to sell 22 million shares between 17 and 19 apiece. By comparison, it comes three years after the company was taken private. It was a 2. 3 billion deal. They posted a loss of 143 million last year despite revenues of 1. 4 billion. Yahoo is closing its office in china and cutting between 200 and 300 jobs according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Yahoo does not offer any products in china. They are under pressure to cut costs. Apple will accept android phones under a tradein program for the first time. Apple started the iphone tradein program in 2013, trying to encourage people to upgrade but expanding the program to other phones, apple wants to accelerate market share gains against android smart phones samsung, htc and the like. These days youre probably using apple or android phones for work. What if you dont work at a traditional employer . Youre a freelancer. Where can you find Health Insurance . Enter stride health. Its a Company Using big data to predict Health Care Expenses and offer plan recommendations. We get the details from their c. E. O. Guest these are individuals now, one in every three American Workers, 60 million American Workers by the end of the decade that are on their own. Right . They love their freelancing lifestyle. Taking fractional work when it makes sense in their days or in their weeks, but they are on their own when it comes to picking their own healthcare coverage and understanding how to navigate that system throughout the year. Cory what do you do to help . Guest were a mobile first web app. You can download any software and go to stridehealth. Com. We help them build a Health Profile about themselves that we can use to forecast their healthcare use for the next year. It is a fairly complex Financial Model on the back end but for the user it is fairly simple. Cory you look at what the Insurance Companies have to offer and you for them . Guest we dont just drive you to an insurance company. We stick with you. We build this profile for you sort of like a Financial Advisor that will map you to the right decision. The right choice of a health plan. Cory a robo advisor . Guest sure. Then we stick with them throughout the rest of the year. We enroll you in that health plan. Youll get your government subsidy if you qualify for one. Cory is obamacare, the Affordable Care act, been a thing that leads your business to a fast rate option . Guest it is one of the things that enables our business. It structured health plans so they would be more machine readable so we can create an index of allhe health plans the market and use an intelligent engine to make recommendations for you. Cory to paraphrase, the Affordable Care act made the plans codified and n similar wa so they ca