If you can&#x27;t make the sale on a value-added basis, then that&#x27;s that. As you said - &quot;it worked well enough&quot;.<p>You&#x2F;they can&#x27;t measure those improvements, so they don&#x27;t exist. What they may know and you are missing is the product&#x27;s position on the Schumpeter curve.<p>When it&#x27;s really bad is when one of your coworkers spends months assembling the data to <i>show</i> that the defects cost them money. It probably cost more to do that than to fix it in the first place.<p>&quot;Move fast and break things.&quot;
&quot;Yes, but what if the things cost $50,000?&quot;