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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Careers, Business, Tech News, Technology, News, Entrepreneurship

5.0217 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Dylan Ratcliffe lives in San Francisco (for less than a year), but grew up on a farm in the bush in Australia, riding motorbikes and playing video games. He fondly remembers the days whenever you could get a free version of Age of Empires from a cereal box. He was always into computers, and earned a scholarship to head into Melbourne for University. He left his first job as an auditor with KPMG to join a startup called Puppet. Outside of tech, he still rides motorbikes, and has a super small one now (it's actually meant for kids). He loves all food, but prefers Asian and Indian cuisine. Dylan was deploying Puppet at a financial services company, and was pushing to get a win. When a late Friday afternoon deployment went haywire, he decided to leave his company and set out to build something to automatically discover dependencies on a network, to prevent deployment outages. This is the creation story of Overmind. Our Sponsors: * Check out Cash App and use my code CASHAPP10 for a great deal: https://click.cash.app/ui6m/mt82fpxl #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement. Cash App Green, overdraft coverage, borrow, cash back offers and promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit http://cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. * Check out Plaud AI and use my code CODESTORY for a great deal: https://plaud.ai Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

This episode is sponsored by Alcor. Global hiring for engineering teams can be a nightmare. Too many

0:06.0

providers, hidden fees, slow support, and local rules that don't make sense. Alcor is a different

0:11.7

kind of EOR partner. They're built for tech companies scaling across borders with deep expertise

0:17.4

in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Alcor combines employer of record services

0:22.6

with tech recruiting, helping you choose the right country, find and assess engineers and

0:27.7

onboard them in days, not months. Nearly 85% of what you pay go straight to your engineers.

0:34.9

Alcor's fee decreases as your team grows and you can always bring the team in-house

0:39.1

with zero exit fee.

0:41.1

That's why Silicon Valley startups,

0:43.1

including five unicorns, work

0:45.2

with Alcor.

0:47.0

Learn more at Alcor.com

0:48.9

or tap the link

0:51.3

in the show notes.

0:54.1

This episode is sponsored by Equity Bee. Stock options or tap the link in the show notes.

0:56.4

This episode is sponsored by Equity B.

1:02.8

Stock options can be valuable, but exercising them often means taking on real financial risk.

1:07.9

Putting tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket with uncertainty around the outcome makes exercising a difficult decision for many startup employees.

1:13.0

And that's where EquityB comes in. EquityB helps you exercise your options without using your

1:18.9

own capital, no out-of-pocket costs. They provide non-recourse funding to cover exercise costs and

1:25.2

taxes. There's no repayment unless the company has an exit.

1:28.8

With EquityB, you don't leave your equity behind. Go to codestory.com slash equity B to learn more.

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