How to Survive the Worst Launch of Your Career: At the beginning, it all seemed so promising: a new product, an amazing game, a critical patch with everything that users wanted. Developers behind the products were eager, excited and enthused. Fast forward to launch, and all hell breaks loose. The patch erases data. The code blue screens the machine. Bugs plague the product. Now, the internet is on fire, and you feel like you threw months (or years!) of your life away, and for what? In this talk, Brenda Romero explores the effects of bad launches on the developers who went through them and shares her own journey of survival.