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Issue you've been hearing us talk about Silicon Valley and the problem of the broke culture for a long time now here on this show it's a great new book out that's really important she should pick up a copy it is called bro topia breaking up the boys club of Silicon Valley and the author is joining me on the Found She is host boomer technology in studio $1.00 Emily Chang Emily thanks so much for coming on the show today thank you so much for having me it's great to be here and you know right here in San Francisco right so this is I mean you're here you are here we are this stuff has been going on for a very long time and I mean if this is the question I always have to start with when we started about Silicon Valley is it started with dude so and I'm in no way ever excusing it but guys hang out playing video games they kind of ran this whole little thing and now are in other big companies with billions of dollars so it's time for a change but where you know just saying me too and you need to hire more women that's not even how we really get started with this is a way work in my mind it's more complicated to really break. It Up an end you know where do we go from here now that we have our eyeballs on it and spotlights on it and we're talking about your book is out what where do we go from the inside now one of the things that surprised me most is that it actually didn't start with Gates in fact in the early days the forty's and fifty's women were well represented among software programmers they were programming computers for the military and computers for NASA and in the sixty's and seventy's as the industry was exploding the jobs that they were doing started to take on higher status and they were higher paying and men wanted those jobs and so in some ways women actually got pushed out of the industry there were also these personality tests that were used to identify good programmers and those tasks were filtering for people who don't like people and 1st of all if you look for people who don't like people you hire far more men than women and there's no research to support the idea that people who don't like people are men are better at computers than women but the stereotypes have been widely held and perpetuated for decades and so you have people looking to hire people who look like Mark Zuckerberg people looking to fun people who look like Mark Zuckerberg and therefore you know an industry that has systematically kept women out for the last several decades what I think in my mind at least you just hit the nail on the head Emily Chang because it's the funding right if the v.c. Community has this weird little insular community that says I I am want to only wager on people like Mark Zuckerberg right or we're Jerry Chang or somebody like that and they never even considered what a woman brings to the table because it's a woman and by the way ages and becomes part of this too and if you're a woman who's 40 by the way absolutely forget about it. You know there isn't that really is the key so but how do you break up a venture capitalism culture because it's there $1000000000.00 not yours. 1st of all venture capital firms need to hire more women and it can't just be one woman you need 234 women to make a real culture change the people who have the power here are really the people who fund venture capitalists and they're called limited partners and what's interesting is you'll see more women represented among L.P.'s than in the v.c. Community and while they say they care about diversity what they really care about is making money is making returns and so when I spoke to L.P.'s they said well some of the best investors aren't the best people but they have the best returns and that kind of an attitude just isn't acceptable So what you're seeing is actually a lot of women venture capitalists leaving these male dominated firms and starting their own funds and I do think that they'll slowly start to change the norms of behavior and you know I interviewed some of these women and in this book where you know they're pitching for an investment from L.P.'s and the L.P.'s will say well wait how many kids do you have no I have 30 are you going to have the kids and the fund and that particular investor was wondering if she should take their money at all but decided that yes they have a weirdness about her being a working mom but maybe if she takes the money and she you know knocks it out of the park she can prove them wrong and pave the way for more women. Bloomberg host Emily Chang is joining me talking about her new book bro topia breaking up the boys club of Silicon Valley want to go back to something though because one of the things that I hear from my friends on the rights goes right back to the heart of something you said though about d.c. All they care about is getting maximum return we mean we still I mean your employer right we talk about money a lot I go on Fox Business we talk about money money you know are we are rich saying we should change you know I talk about capitalism 2.0 should be should be changing that is not just about profits and returns and we need to start contemplating morality and ethics beyond beyond just maximizing my returns on my investment Well here's an idea and i.m.f. Study shows that if you add one woman to the board or one woman to the leadership team of a company that profits go up 3 to 8 percent I argue in the book that this isn't just the right thing to do this is a smart thing to do for business if you think about a company like Google this is a company that actually in the early days focused on hiring women they got people like Sheryl Sandberg who scaled the entire ad business and then did it again at Facebook and social in which it's key to convince them to buy You Tube and is now running You Tube One of the interesting exercises that I did in this book was consider the idea What if women had been involved in more equal numbers from the start how different might the world be we had no idea what companies and people might have been funded if women had been given a seat at the table you know we we think that this is how it was supposed to be or this is the best way it possibly could be because this is how it is and these companies have made a lot of money but we don't know how much better you know the business world and how many more how much more wealth could have been created if women were involved and on top of that I interviewed Evan Williams who's a co-founder of Twitter and he told me that he thinks if there had been more women on the founding team at Twitter earlier. That online harassment and trolling wouldn't be such a problem they weren't thinking about how Twitter could be used to hurl death threats or harass people they were thinking about wonderful and amazing things that could be done with Twitter and so I think it's really important for all businesses to have a diversity of people at the table especially women and especially in an industry that is changing our lives every day we take it for granted we don't realize and think about the companies and the people who are making these products but this is an industry that is changing what we read what we see how we communicate how we shop the games our children are playing the social media that they use 95 percent of the people making the decisions about how these products are made should not be that. I actually totally now want oh man we have we have so much more to talk about but we just have a limited time get you to pick up a copy of this book it's called bro topia breaking up the boys club of Silicon Valley Bloomberg technology host Emily Chang Emily thanks so much for coming on the show today I appreciate it thanks for having me great to be here Absolutely thank you so much bro topia. Is such as it is I know what an interesting point though if Twitter it had more women representation went we are so full of all the hate that sometimes I get. On. With other. Parts of the holiday. Just got word of an accident. Very heavy from. Getting out of San Francisco. On my way. Visible from the westbound side. Of the island. From hospital curve just getting to the Bay Bridge. Got a variety of $20.00 fill ups with extra crispy original recipe crispy tenders or boneless chicken breasts that's 1234 ways to feed your hungry family k.f.c. It's finger lickin good nice and sunny today. 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Certain companies are good for my good friend David Lazarus from the Los Angeles Times his column is called consumer confidential. David look you and I have both dealt with the insurance companies and I don't know if you've ever had valid claims and I had but that's happened to me before and you gotta fight with them if this is a big problem oh yeah it's a big struggle and I write in my column but I own experience but more broadly it turns out that according to one federal study a number of claims get routinely denied and inherent of those cases the denial can be overturned by simply the patient appealing which raises a very intriguing question that's not very original to me and that is our interest deliberately denying claims yes to winnow out those who might not have the wherewithal or the stamina to go through this process and the appeals process is deliberately frustrating again to create this Darwinian struggle to take chase away the Bill of the weaker members of the herd and you know keep in mind any time an insurer pays money out that's a loss and they want to limit that would I think David Lazarus I was pretty sure David Lazarus that that oh what's your name Sarah Pailin claim that that's what was going to happen with Obamacare is that we have death panels debate these are insurance companies that have been doing this for ever by the way this is not a new phenomenon that they deny valid claims and you have to appeal so I mean where can I say it so they really do want people to die because in there with enough to pay for it I mean that sounds horrible and crass but I have to agree with Chuck Idelson who you quote It's immoral and it's unconscionable that they do this oh I agree and you know I think this is just yet another of the the series of by products collect all of a for profit health care system and when much of our insurance is a for profit endeavor then by it's just very nature health insurers have a fiduciary duty not to pay claims to protect their share of old. And to protect their revenue and thus they put as many obstacles in place to to get booted to prevent the claim from going through and as any patient will tell you who's ever gone through this or or the family of a patient it is an ex truly gut wrenching thing to have to go through when your mind when your heart when when everything that you're focused on is on something else and that is the betterment of yourself or a loved one and the idea that the insurer is going to make you jump through hoops meaningless hoops tedious hoops to try and get that which you have already paid for could make no mistake you were you've been paying your premiums you you are a customer in good standing and then to get them to uphold their part of the bargain suddenly becomes an exercise in pulling teeth and this is just simply unacceptable and as I wrote in my column not only does it often seem as though claims are being denied deliberately to scare off the faint of heart but for people with chronic conditions they just can't afford to walk away and they hurry to put up the fight there for a denied claim is just simply a reenlist pointless endeavor in making a difficult process all the more difficult and the article is called When Your insurer denies a valid claim because of lack of medical necessity l.a. Times consumer confidential columnist David Lazarus or David what would help empower me in for a 2nd and I mean this in the most genuine sense when an insurer denies my claim if I have and of course we want them to deny you know of frivolous fraudulent whatever they need to have those processes in place to stop that because obviously that costs all of us if they're allowing for listen fraudulent claims to go through but you know medically valid claim type one diabetes you need a new pump that's valid That's reasonable This is what you're paying for what is the process I have to go through what do I need to do what did you have to do when they deny. Your claim yet and since you're bringing up my thinks Ok so let's talk about the more micro-level here I have to switch in Flint pumps like you know what I have type one diabetes that's the auto a moon auto immune incurable type of diabetes the one not associated with obesity which is type 2 I've had for years I've worn an insulin pump for years my insulin pump maker went out of business so I have to switch to a new one and I go through the normal process and the claim gets submitted and I'm ready to go for the of a new pump and then I get a denial letter from my employer employers ensure that saying My claim has been denied for lack of medical necessity and let's let's just let's just stop and relish that for a moment because the implication seems to be that the well is the type one diabetes it'll just clear up just generally baby is not going to clear up Moreover all you have to do is look at my my record of claims over many years and you'll see thousands of test strips hundreds of vials of insulin all sorts of things that basically would it would have a commonsense person saying gosh I don't think he's faking that illness and right nevertheless the they they they denied the claim and when I dug into it it turned out of that the claim was denied because they didn't get a letter from my endocrinologist attesting to the fact that I have a disease that I've had for many years and again let's come back to the commonsense thing at this point the claims adjuster not having that letter but being able to see all of the other context in which th