Why technical debt is a good thing

As a startup, your job is to take on technical debt because that is how you operate faster than a bigger company. Bigger companies don't take on technical debt. They pay it usually right away or they're paying back technical debt from the days when they were a startup. We think about it as like, is this a problem we need to solve today or is this a problem that the 50th engineer or the 100th engineer or the 500th engineer can solve? And if it is a problem that a future engineer can solve, We should use that future engineer now. We're saying we're going to push this to somebody in the future. And by the way, if the company fails, that engineer will never be hired. And all this won't matter anyways. It's kind of like financially in many ways. Financial debt is taken on to create leverage. It can be a good thing. Like if you're buying a house, you take on debt and you can buy something probably more than you can afford. I think it's the same thing. You can create products that you wouldn't be able to build with the small team that you have by taking on strategic technical debt.