"It's actually incredibly rare for a non-hacker co-founder (aka, a biz guy) to sell faster than the technology can keep up." Really now? In my experience it's

"It's actually incredibly rare for a non-hacker co-founder (aka, a biz guy) to sell faster than the technology can keep up." Really now? In my experience it's not that rare at all. Throw in the very common scenario of management that doesn't understand the need for things like refactoring and code maintenance, and it's downright common.