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on champagne problems

Avoid "champagne problems" - in Silicon Valley startups, these are problems that arise after customers use your product enough.

"What if we win? We don't have glasses for the celebratory champagne! Let's get them now while we have time so we are ready."

or something along those lines

This is the same as:

  • what if our server can't scale to N requests/min? No need to solve that till your product is at N rpm.
  • customers will immediately ask for feature Y after trying feature X. Yes, probably. Get them to try X and care enough to ask for Y.

Musk is iterating on rockets that go to space. Iteration works. Do not get champagne glasses, just launch.