Idea: Startups, even moreso than mature businesses, behave similarly to organisms and exist on a fine balance between life and death. Corollary #1: all startups

Idea: Startups, even moreso than mature businesses, behave similarly to organisms and exist on a fine balance between life and death. Corollary #1: all startups, almost definitionally, have the maximum amount of technical debt possible without dying (otherwise they would "move faster and break more things"). Corollary #2: Startups whose core business is selling to developers (as opposed to applications of software) are much more sensitive to technical debt.