I would temper this with the fact that while premature optimization is bad, writing terrible, unmaintainable, inefficient code is also bad. Ideally when buildin

I would temper this with the fact that while premature optimization is bad, writing terrible, unmaintainable, inefficient code is also bad. Ideally when building your startup technical founders write code that can eventually be scaled up or out if necessary, leveraging previous experience to do so(hopefully) as to not waste time and be able to focus on business concerns as the author suggests.