do you worry about the image of kleiner?ohn: the results of the partnership are some of the best we have ever seen. emily, in the last 24 months, kleiner has generated $4 billion in returns, we had the most exits of any firm. 13 such exits. we had huge winners like n.e.s.t. which we helped incubate. second largest acquisition by google. so, we are really doing well. in a competitive environment. emily: what do you see out there that could be the next google? the next amazon? ♪ emily: you guys made a shakeup a couple of years ago, two dozen junior partners, only five were promoted and 19 were fired. or told to get an operating role at a company. you now have a partnership with six general partners and you guys are equals. how is this going and how strong do you feel the partnership is today? john: partnership is firing on all cylinders. it is better than i ever remember. emily: john, you have been there for 35 years, kleiner was one that got in early. it seems you are making later stage investments, is that of the fundamental

what is the succession plan at kleiner? at any given time, kleiner has been unusual in that we have multiple generations of partners and we have been diverse in age, gender, and ethnicity. we are on our fourth generation transition in 40 years. and i am confident we will do it successfully. emily: how long do you plan to stay at the firm? john: i have no present plans to leave. emily: but this is your baby. john: that may be a public perception, but it is not the reality. the reality is that this is a partnership. emily: where do you see this firm in the next 10 years? john: a top three venture capital firm that is pioneering breakthrough, risky fields like augmented reality. that is even more diverse than we are today. and that's backing the world's best entrepreneurs. emily: thank you both so much for joining us. it has been really great to have you. john: emily, thank you. beth: thank you for having us. ♪ when you're on hold, your business is on hold. that's why comcast business doesn't leave you there. when you call, a

so i don't know that we're different at kleiner. there's more awareness in general.ted about the partners that we're hiring. we're focused on a number of initiatives. for example, we have a fellows program, 30% of the class this year were women, next year, 2016, our goal is 50% will be women and underrepresented minorities. so we're more focused on it, which is a really good thing for our country. it's great for business, it's the right thing for society, and it's great for our firm and for all these entrepreneur. >> last question for you. what health tech company do you perceive becoming a unicorn in the next five years? >> gosh, there are, there are a few unicorns already, and oscar is one, zoc doc is a unicorn. i hope that p instead of unicorns we have public companies that are billion dollar companies. so we're really excited about teledoc, for example, we're excited about a number of our companies that are going to go public. so i want to shift the conversation from unicorns to -- i was going to use this for biotech, but it's fine for digital health, to call the

stormtrack 7 weather team: welcome back i'm ear sky for much of the nightt here is a look stephanie kleiner and you can see the bright blue sky with the full sunshine shining on the them to us via email, facebook or twitter. there are a few clouds that will track in from the norrh. so sunday will be partly to mostly cloudy across the area, but mostly sunny skies will return as we head into the work week. so we are in for a relatiely quiet weather pattern for the next couple of days. here's a llk at the temperatures. a little chilly today, but typical for early january standards. we are in the 20s right now across the area. breezy today out of the west, d it will be eventtally switching to the northwest later tonight, creating cool wind chills. here's the current wind chills, or what it actuallyfeels like as you step outside. it is feeling several dgrees colder r utside thanksso the wind, soso maybe grab the hat and gloves as you head out later this evening. storm track 7 live weather network shows pretty quiet conditions across eastern iowa. we had perfect weether conditions to catch a very

randy komisar, kleiner perkins, thought you could be far bigger than even $3.2 billion. it was never about money. it was about building the right thing. this wasn't about money. the number was nice. don't get me wrong. but, this was a 10, 15 year vision. i knew we were going to need big arms to help us get there. i remember how long it took to go from ipod to iphone, and those things. and you need a lot of resources to do it. just to be standalone? people would say you need to go public, you need to raise more money. i did not want to go public. when you saw that number, when you had the gut the feeling, you just had to go with it. it is like when you get married. you never know what it's going to be like on the other side. you trust your gut. you have done all the analysis. at the end of the day, it is all about emotional decision. it's not a rational one. emily: it is funny because people still wonder why didn't you sell to apple. you worked at apple, it feels like apple, was that ever really an option? tony: we considered all the possible acquisition targets. through

kleiner perkins and jason who are wits, draper fisher and khosla ventures run by vinod khosla. joined this morning by far rad manju and laura sidel of npr. >> you know a lot about a lot of things and you had a background in sun micro estimates, but as you invest are there things that you don't know but you suspect would be good investments and how do you learn about the thing that you know nothing about? >> do you know what's misunderstood in my view about venture capital is it isn't about investing at all, it's about backing big ideas to go pursue new things and most of the returns in venture capital come from new ideas that you don't imagine before. >> how do you understand the company with the new idea that has nothing to do with your background, it's in biotech or something in which you are not familiar? >> i think you have to have a growth kind of mindset where you don't make a lot of assumptions about what you know. what i know is how little i know and i start with that assumption and i imagine the possible. i let great entrepreneurs take their ideas and try and make some

we have had google as investors, kleiner perkins, bill gates.bring to the table, makes those companies better. --etimes, when there have sometimes maybe a little bit of correction is not a bad thing. emily: 2016 will be the year of what? hopefully, this red ink is relatively short. emily: i will take it. us.k you for joining you do not seeng every day. a san francisco inventor has taken to kickstarter to build custom delorean hovercrafts. isn't that cool? you can see him test driving here. he hopes to sell his creation for 120,000. flux capacitor not included. i want to give you a quick look at what is going on with gopro. shares are way down. that does it for "bloomberg west " today. we will be back tomorrow. ♪ >> from our studios in new york city, charlie rose. rose: we're live this evening. president barack obama delivered his final state of the union address. tonight was less about the past and the future. president obama: let's talk about the future.

we have had google as investors, kleiner perkins, bill gates. bring to the table, it makes those companies better. sometimes, maybe a little bit of correction is not a bad thing. emily: 2016 will be the year of what? alexis: hopefully, this red ink is relatively short. emily: i will take it. thank you for joining us. here is something you do not see every day. a san francisco inventor has taken to kickstarter to build custom delorean hovercrafts. isn't that cool? you can see him test driving here. he hopes to sell his creation for $120,000. flux capacitor not included. i want to give you a quick look at what is going on with gopro. shares are way down. that does it for "bloomberg west" today. we will be back tomorrow. ♪ we live in a pick and choose world. choose, choose, choose. but at bedtime? ...why settle for this? enter sleep number, and the lowest prices of the season. sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. you like the bed soft. he's more hardcore. so your sleep goes from good to great to wow! on

dicaprio in revenant, and eddie >> and the best picture nominees, they are, the big gardener and jeremy kleiner producers, bridge of spies. brooklyn. mad max fury road. the martian. and spotlight. >> for the complete liit of all the nominations, please visit oscar.com. >> join us sunday night, february 28th to celebrate these incredible artists and films at the oscars with our host, chris rock. see you then. >> february 28th here on denver 7. you can see the oscar nominations. 8films for best picture. >> i was like, are they going to keep going? >> big list. >> lot of people also wondering if star wars, and they got three nominations mentioned here, visual effects, editing and original score. revenant racking up. >> it did well go the golden globes as did the martians. i have catching up to do. >> i really want to see the >>> hollywood is also mourning a loss today. sad news, actor alan rickman has passed away. that came across today early this morning. well known actor. certainly recognize his face. had a wonderful voice. very good actor. recognized in his role in harry tter. he wws also the v

finally we are pleased to announce the sound selected aas they are the big short brad pitt and jeremy kleiner producers. bridge of spies steven spielberg mark and kristi kriegerkri producers. brook lyn. mad max fury road doug mitchellg mitc and george miller producers.he the martian simon canonsburgano ridley scott. michael schaefer and mark k k producer. the revenant steve and eliannd drama and keith redman producer. room. and gyn producer. and spotlight michael ste@ve and an nicole producers. the nominations please visit oscar.com. and joinn @ us sunday nightnit february 28 to celebrate these incredible artiststsfebruary . okay. any big shockers david.da i got to tell you big shockers isho guess maybe ones that are leftre off of there i hadr carol on my list and that is t not nominatedmi for best picture christian baleristia and therefore best supporting actor forn n the big short i was happy to see that. there's a lot of things that were very predictable for me because of their broadcatstheir bro rs out of these because we see allll of the movies.ies. going down the list checking ithec out

so dee dee gardner and jeremy kleiner from plan b came back and said, we have some news, brad read the script. i thought he'd say he hates it. he wants to be in it. so i had him audition. no, no. >> what people say about you adam mckay is often the funniest guy in the room. >> comedians say that. >> comedians say that. >> my mother has said that. >> you iraqi heard it too. so you've got a funny gene. >> yeah. i came from comedy, second city. >> "saturday night live." >> yes, yes. so, yeah, i definitely like to joke around. things on the movie was i had to watch my tone when we were doing it because there are some heartbreaking scenes in this movie and my instinct is to also keep a very playful set and there were times where i had to go silence on this one. >> you know, there's a lot of controversy this year about the oscars that there were no people of color nominated in the top categories. what are your thoughts about that, adam? you're in the huchblt. >> i think we work in the arts. we're writers, we're artists, we're directors. we should welcome these kinds of debates and i think it

jeremy kleiner producers. steven spielberg. kristi mccusker. mad max. road. ridley scott. producers. alejandra g. ed dining, producer. spotlight. steve go in. producers. >> for the complete list of all the nominations, please visit o.com. please join us to celebrate these incredible artist and films. greg: take away on that. we have a lot of movies to be seen. i saw martian. i did not see 45 years. revenant. rosanna: tony scott is coming up. the best support main nod for spotlight. fantastic in that movie. he got a nod for original screenplay straight out of compton. greg: more details. look at this guide. he has a couch. greg: welcome aboard my starship. ahoy, mateys! it's full of things i love... like me brave crew... and my fellow space adventures and free of things i don't. like aliens. just like eye patches. and when it's time to refuel, i eat chex cereal. it's full of stuff we pirates need. no artificial flavors, and it's gluten-free. excelsior! eat up, me hearties! keep it down! i'm exploring the galaxy. arrrr, that's not even in new york state, we believe tomorrow

selected as the best picture nominees, they are "the big short," brad pitt, dede gardner and jeremy kleiner, producers, "bridge of spies," steven spielberg, mark plat and kristie macosko krieger, producers, "brooklyn," finola dwyer and amanda posey, producers, "mad max: fury road," dove mitchell and george miller, producers. "the martian," simon kinberg, ridley scott, michael schaefer and mark huffam, producers, "the revenant," or nandz mill shonn, steve golin, alejandro inarritu, mary parent and keith redmon, producers. "room," ed giney, producer and steve golin, nicole rocklin and blye pagon faust, producers. >> for the complete list of all the nomination, please visit oscar.com. >> and join us sunday night, february 28th to celebrate these incredible artists and films at the oscars with our host chris rock. see you then. [ applause ] >> "star wars" and "straight outta compton." >> we are back now with jess and chris, what jumps out to you right away, chris? >> no "star wars" or "straight outta compton." particularly "straight outta compton," i was surprised. "star wars" weirdly because s