Just like any debt, technical debt is not "always bad". The point of incurring debt is to make a "large payment" (deliver software) quickly and immediately, in

Just like any debt, technical debt is not "always bad". The point of incurring debt is to make a "large payment" (deliver software) quickly and immediately, in exchange for paying interest over time. If you can deliver a working prototype, scale, get funded, and grow your business quickly in exchange of technical debt, that's not really a bad deal.