Yeah well :) Billion dollar projects like the NBN are like these huge huge conquests for the big corporates involved. It's hard for startups to compete with all the resources, salesmanship, box seats at the footy and other wining and dining that goes on behind the scenes to win the bid. All up, I'm relatively happy with the experience, we built and pitched a high quality product, built it very fast, and got out fast. As fails go, I'm very happy overall with how it was executed. The bet had a very nice risk / reward ratio had we been successful.