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I took a calculated risk at ____ when we were preparing to launch our app in Mexico. All required application documents were submitted to the regulatory authority, but they turned our application down. This was a devastating blow as the driver service centers were already set up, and advertisements were running. Without approval, our team would burn hundreds of thousands of dollars daily and risk low user retention. I quickly gathered our government affairs, finance, and IT teams to brainstorm. The government affairs team analyzed news articles about how our competitor had security issues and operated without the proper license. I empathized with the transportation authority to understand their motivation and concluded that the most likely bottleneck was concern about driver and passenger safety. My team worked closely with the technology team to install a safety feature that would enable passengers to seamlessly alert the police if they felt endangered. We resubmitted our application and offered to share aggregated traffic statistics to help solve congestion problems. After confirming the safety feature worked and detecting our cooperativeness, the authority granted us the permit. We subsequently successfully launched operations in three more Mexican cities.