I Analyzed 70 Startups' Codebases — The Ones With More Technical Debt Raised More Money
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My study of 70 venture-backed startups found shipping speed was more closely tied to funding success than clean code during the ZIRP era.
This post distills the findings of my master's thesis at the University of Twente and TU Berlin. I built an automated pipeline that analyzed the codebases of 70 open-source, venture-backed companies across 146 funding periods during the ZIRP era...