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"Successful" by literally any measure.

• yayana 8y ago
  I'm not sure about "any" measure, the average startup probably has no surviving code in production.. Even the average in acquired startups, if we count acquihires..
• dwaltrip 8y ago
  Success, in this context, means having solved some problem for a meaningful length of time.
  • Retra 8y ago
    That doesn't exclude anything. Code can exist to pad resumes, feed paranoia, and bolster egos, manipulate people, or simply because someone can't admit their own mistakes. Anything can be a solution to a problem.
    • dwaltrip 8y ago
      Yes, those things do happen. However, that isn't what I meant by the word "problem". I was talking about end-user problems.