our reporters, alice strong of the tech block, quartz and quentin hardee "the new york times," this time"press:here." >>> good morning, everyone, i'm scott mcgrew. one of the key drivers in silicon valley is venture capital, money to help grow your company in exchange for a piece of the pie. if the value were a living breathing thing then venture capital is its blood and sand hill road is its heart, which is what makes the company, appster, so mysterious started by two teenaged australians who haven't taken a cent of outside money. the company growing so fast it will hire 150 people in san francisco by the end of the month. the young men who share the title of ceo started their company in melbourne with $3,000. last year, appster made 10 million in revenue. josiah humphrey is one half of that team at appster, joined by quentin hardee "the new york times" and alice trond of quartz. you started the company with $3,000 of your own money. i suppose if we are talking about this littlement amount of money, get specific australian or u.s.? >> australian dollars. >> so $2300 u.s. >> there you go

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the hardee's to put it back. i mention those -- now the two lights they eliminated, there's six lights in its place. how did that make it becomes very dangerous in what they've done. >> okay, all right. chris edwards? >> the caller is discussing the efficiency or inefficiency of his local government infrastructure spending. northern virginia i notice that local governments often seem to do odd and seemingly wasteful things with putting in new lights and changing sidewalks and that sort of stuff. i think the solution here is more transparency by local governments. it's often very difficult to find out how local governments are spending their infrastructure money. a few years ago in my neighborhood in northern virginia they repaved some streets in our neighborhood but not others. i called to try to complain. i couldn't get an answer. and there's no transparency in the current system. i think that is a solution for local government infrastructure. >> isn't that an argument for federal guidelines to have the federal

our reporters, alice strong of the tech block, quartz and quentin hardee "the new york times," this time

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us which launches those are and if those might go away with sequestration at that stage and also hardee's new launches that are being put out for competition or was it always assumed that these would be competitive launches? >> we had competitive launches and fy16 there are three launches which will be competitive. in fy16 i think there are three to four. decisions on what payloads go on those launches are still pretty decisional but when that contract is awarded than that announcement will be made. >> because you are zooming you will have a new and turned the rationale for this new entrant has been that it will decrease the cost of launch substantially through competition so how much less re-able to budget for elv or launches because you have this competition? >> we have said all along competition is a good thing. it's a good thing for air force and a good thing for a nation because it gives us a better product and it does drive down costs when competitors know they're someone competing for the same workload. last year when we awarded our elv contract we think that was one reason why we