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When adding new technologies as companies scale, Kabayama suggests focusing on three sequential steps: Buy in, onboarding, and usage. This process is not as formulaic as it seems, Kabayama said. There's a balance between triaging existing features versus implementing new features. For her part, Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo's director of ticketing Paula Urban chose to take the incremental approach. With 2.4 million guests coming to her events, she decided to split ticket sale launch times to quell traffic.