It's because code that failed to be profitable is worthless. It's a form of debt. You have to spend money to find engineers to work on it (and to even confirm i

It's because code that failed to be profitable is worthless. It's a form of debt. You have to spend money to find engineers to work on it (and to even confirm it works in the first place). If someone said, "Hey, I built this highly customized engine for a new type of car, but it costs much more to produce than consumers are willing to pay for it," would anyone want that? If there were a way to make this code profitable, wouldn't investors have put in a small amount of money to get there? The goal of a software company is to create customers, not code. If you can build a software company with no-code and Airtable, that's better than writing an app from scratch. The key thing is the customers, and if a business doesn't have them, then the business has no value (and indeed has negative value).