I'm not sure if the author has any idea what is it like to bootstrap a web product and watch the money go down the drain day after day, with zero income to compensate, and with the certainty that you won't make it for another 6 months if the product is not out and making revenue. I'll deal with the technical debt later, thanks. I'm pretty sure Facebook and Google didn't do anything remotely close to TDD when they first shipped, and yet they survived.