<b>The 90-day clock after an acquisition</b>

<b>The 90-day clock after an acquisition</b>
Heard this week: a source close to a recently-acquired host says the founding infra team's retention packages cliff at the one-year mark, and most are already interviewing. The acquirer kept the brand, the logo, and roughly none of the people who knew where the bodies were buried.
What it means for you: the deep platform knowledge that made a host reliable walks out around month 12. That's when you see the weird outages nobody can root-cause fast.
Word is the new owner is backfilling with contractors.
Watch this: track the host's engineering blog. When the bylines you trusted stop posting, the institutional memory left with them.