> When a startup becomes wildly successful, you'll have the funds to pay off tech debt. I'm against holding this view. Sure, if (and that's a big "if") your st

> When a startup becomes wildly successful, you'll have the funds to pay off tech debt. I'm against holding this view. Sure, if (and that's a big "if") your startup becomes wildly successful then you'll be able to fix everything or re-build your app from scratch with an army of senior developers backed by millions of dollars of venture capital funding. However, the path that Uber and other tech giants took is the exception, 99% of startups won't experience that. With that said, I believe a lot of medium/large sized economically viable startup business can benefit from adopting a more balanced approach reagarding code quality, instead of cargo culting tech giants like Uber and friends. Nice story though, thanks for sharing.