PE firm acquired my scheduling platform for 4.8M. Sat in the boardroom while their CTO talked about our microservices architecture and event-driven pipeline. I smiled and said yes exactly. I understood maybe 4% of that meeting. Brother it is one file. One enormous cursor-generated file. No microservices! No event pipeline! The earnout means I stay on as CTO for 18 months! Hail Mary! I have 14 engineers reporting to me. Yesterday I googled what a sprint retrospective is. If my laptop dies I am done but I lived a goo dlife