Great code has never been the requirement of success.
Throughout my career no software that hits $100m annual revenue was born from great code. That’s 2 fortune 100 hi-tech companies with other medium sized companies with revenue close to $1B.
There was one company that had better codebase than the others, unfortunately that company struggles to hit $2M MRR…
Looking back, it was painful to admit that code quality was not how the company succeed: it was overall strategy and luck.
Throughout my career no software that hits $100m annual revenue was born from great code. That’s 2 fortune 100 hi-tech companies with other medium sized companies with revenue close to $1B.
There was one company that had better codebase than the others, unfortunately that company struggles to hit $2M MRR…
Looking back, it was painful to admit that code quality was not how the company succeed: it was overall strategy and luck.