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Prioritize Future Customers Over Current Complaints
- Prioritize serving future customers over satisfying every current complaint when scaling rapidly.
- Reid Hoffman recounts PayPal turning desk ringers off and delaying full support until they could build a scalable call center.
E-Vite Outage Revealed Viral Product Market Fit
- Selina Tobaccowala's $200 fridge computer tripped and users called asking what happened, revealing E-Vite's viral growth overnight.
- That single outage exposed a built-in viral coefficient and instantly shifted E-Vite from a dorm project to a scaling problem.
iLike Rented A U-Haul To Keep Servers Running
- iLike exploded on Facebook and the team doubled servers repeatedly until they rented a U-Haul and borrowed machines from data centers.
- They literally spent a holiday weekend unpacking and racking servers to keep the app alive.