Sustainable Growth and Tech. Debt
Any technology-driven organisation that has successfully grown over a long time, would have done so by a mix of visionary leadership, luck and rapidly developing solutions for real-world problems.
They would have, along the way, made technical concessions in the solutions they devised. They would have pivoted from experiments and products brought to market. They would have made decisions without knowing what the future holds, decisions motivated by growth, speed or plain survival.