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Dylan Ratcliffe

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297 total appearances

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

through like hundreds and hundreds of interdependent pieces of infrastructure, 400 things and 2000 relationships.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And it's doing it perfectly.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And the magic definitely hasn't been lost on me.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

Every time I test it, I'm like, God, this kicks ass.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And it continues to not be lost on it.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

I'm always excited about the product, watching the product do what it does because it is awesome.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And the other thing is the team.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

It's really important to me that the people who work for me leave in a better situation than they came in.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And I've been able to watch the team grow in terms of size, but also individuals stepping up and taking on new responsibilities and learning and growing and getting better at their jobs and taking on new jobs.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

And that has been extremely satisfying.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

It's probably 50-50, but it's really important to me.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

The thing that has surprised me most, actually, in terms of things that I've been wrong about is, and it's more the team saving me from a mistake, but so that first trip in Greece when GPT-3 first came out, we were trying two things.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

I wanted to see whether it was possible for us to determine the routineness of a change so that we could say, hey, you do this all the time.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

Or, hey, you've never done this before.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

The other thing we wanted to see whether we could do was to assess the risks of a change, of if you do this could go wrong.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

I was totally convinced that the risks would not work.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E1: Dylan Ratcliffe, Overmind

I was like, there's no way that's going to work.