I mean this as a genuine question, but is there any company that didn't end up like this after an exponential growth phase? I'm not saying it's okay, but this feels par for the course. I've now been at two start ups during that hockey stick growth time and both went through this as well.
I'd be curious if anyone here has worked at a large, fast growing tech company where they didn't accumulate a ton of technical debt during growth. If so, what did the company do to prevent that?