I worked for a startup once for a brief time.

Engineering would make tools for the sales guys to make websites. We hated those bastards because they would litter the pates with adds.

"We need revenue" they'd protest. Engineering would respond that past two ads, the revenue was too small to be worth destroying the brand.

What I got out of that was that business folks, often, don't give a shit about the product reputation on a timescale longer then their ownership of it.