> Unfortunately, I think it is rather unlikely for someone to just be able to drop in to a company in this region and begin working on this kind of neat problem

> Unfortunately, I think it is rather unlikely for someone to just be able to drop in to a company in this region and begin working on this kind of neat problem. This is basically what I specialize in, albeit mostly accidentally. It's actually not as hard as you'd think, because almost every company that gets to 2.5M ARR has already gone through at least one and sometimes two complete rewrites, that have solved some but not all of their issues. So at this point they already understand that their marginal cost of adding new features is increasing, they know what their problems are, and they understand the value of software architecture. If you want to do this though then you can't really just apply for a job at the company, the technical co-founder has to kind of invite you to come in to work on this stuff.