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Hello, we are here on the A16Z podcast with the writers and makers of the

50 app. With us, I have three awesome American teenagers. And they, unlike most of us, when they watched what was happening in Ferguson,

most people like me sat there, read about it, got really upset, got frustrated, and then did nothing.

But these kids watched it, saw what was going on and said,

like, we can do something.

We're going to build an app that allows citizens to review police officers.

And in this way, make the whole policing process much more transparent

and much more like something that will work well in the future. And so we're very excited to have

Caleb, Ima, and Asha here. And will it get started? So, Emma. Yes, thank you for having us.

Why, what made you want to build 50?

Okay, well, we started developing this app about six months ago, and what really made us decide to start developing it was, you know, it was more so a culmination of everything that was going on in the media at the time.

And also we had some family members who

had also had some negative interactions with law enforcement. And that's something that had always

been on our minds. We talk to our parents often about these issues and they try to put everything

into context for us. And one of the things they really tried to focus and tell us was to focus on finding

solutions. And from there, that's how we decided to develop an app. We just rolled out of ideas

on the whiteboard, and we started thinking about every component that could go into an app like this,

and that's how we came up with 5-0. Wow. And so, Asha, when you, you know, normally if a family member has a run-in with the police that's negative, that's going to cause more rage than kind of constructive thinking. So how did you get to the point where you said, look, let's take a systematic approach and, you know, try and fix the whole

system as opposed to just get mad at a police officer? Right. So our family, all three of us,

we've been working on coding and we've been involved in tech since we were in middle school. So we've

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