If you work at a startup that is still trying to become profitable and you have a $300,000 deal on a line that is dependent on a functioning product demo by Fri

If you work at a startup that is still trying to become profitable and you have a $300,000 deal on a line that is dependent on a functioning product demo by Friday, you rush as fast as you can, and you build it as well as you can in the time allotted. Unfortunately, there often simply isn't enough time and resources available to build it "right". But you manage to get a functioning demo/prototype working and the startup makes the sale and is able to stay alive for a couple more months. You do everything in your power to explain the compromises that were made to the CTO and the CEO, and they weigh their options and determine that they want to keep duct taping things together as fast as possible to keep making more of these quick sales. Building things "right" the first time is a luxury that is rarely possible in the real world, I've found. Maybe if you are working at a big company like Google or Amazon? But from what I've seen, even the projects coming out of those companies are often deeply flawed and have have a plethora of issues when they are initially released.