Comment by sightbroke
4 months ago
I'm not disagreeing with you.
Just an observation though:
There seems to be a world in software where "it works" well enough to grow a large user base to achieve a a large valuation and then dip out is also a viable option.
Growing/evolving the code does not matter because the product no longer matters after the founders have made a large sum of money.
I hear what you're saying; but the implications seem ... net harmful? If you're actively hacking something together with the intent of boosting a valuation, selling your company and GTFOing before your purchasers figure out the bag of unmaintainable garbage you've sold them, that ...
You're harming:
I think "grift" is a good term (GPT recommended 'predatory exit' as an alternative) for what a team that's done that has done.
There’s nothing wrong with iterating fast or building MVPs. But when teams knowingly pass off a brittle mess to others, they’ve stopped building products and started selling lies.
> but the implications seem ... net harmful?
I was not trying to imply that it was not. Just observing that when money is on the table there appears little incentive in some cases to build a good product.
Or to follow good engineering practices because the founders & investors already made money without it.