I'm not saying other things aren't important or should be sacrificed. Just that when building a startup, if you can't get to market... you die. Having a great c

I'm not saying other things aren't important or should be sacrificed. Just that when building a startup, if you can't get to market... you die. Having a great culture or clean code or beautiful design doesn't save you if you don't ship. Those are still all things which can kill the company later, but none of them kill you as immediately and completely as failure to ship. So time to market becomes the ultimate priority.