[ZephyrBlu]

This is a false equivalency. Pieter does not run a hypergrowth startup. His businesses are completely different to AirBnB and Stripe.

He does this because he's the only person who works on the codebase and because it generates a lot of attention due to how polarizing this choice is.

I'd also argue that messy code is the product of hypergrowth, rather than messy code being required for hypergrowth. Purposefully writing shit code because you're "moving fast and breaking things" seems like a dumb idea.

[felipe_csl]

Agreed! Thanks for pointing out my logical fallacies.