It depends what the buyer wants. A clean code base is generally not the first thing I would look at when buying a company. Fundamentals are much more important

It depends what the buyer wants. A clean code base is generally not the first thing I would look at when buying a company. Fundamentals are much more important such as revenue. Focus on improving your fundamentals. You put effort into cleaning up the scrappy mvp when it starts to hinder your efforts to improve those fundamentals.