Then again, I know companies that never got of the ground because of being pivoted of a failed code-base from hell, that only became a success when they bit the

Then again, I know companies that never got of the ground because of being pivoted of a failed code-base from hell, that only became a success when they bit the bullet and forced a blank slate rewrite. Sometimes the repository is full of hard earned tacit knowledge, other times it is just a pile of stinking manure.