"A few days after our IPO date was set, I called my first meeting of the entire software department. I felt more nervous here than I had under the spotlight next to David Amram’s piano at the Living Room. I wanted to emphasize how important it was that nothing would go wrong in the next few weeks, so I handed out printouts of articles about highly publicized server crashes at EBay.com and at TheGlobe.com before and after their successful IPOs. “This is what we don’t want to happen,” I said. “The IPO is six weeks away, and the market is very volatile. Any perceived problem could harm the opening price. I don’t care what you have to do, but please keep those servers running until the end of March. We’ll figure out how to fix all our problems after we get there. Okay, go."
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