I don't want to sound all negative, but what happened with medium sized companies building apps/services, which are not only looking to *scale*?

I feel this.. I was working on the best team, but we were acquired and then laid off. And I feel we could’ve continued growing without the acquisition and built a much better product

It was profitable. The layoffs were communicated as a move to consolidate the product team to one locale. We had a lot of transition support and notice but still sad to think about what could’ve been