Noah Labhart

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And today, how Dmitry Ovcharenko is offering you a disruptive alternative to tech outsourcing and the employer of record.

Dmytro Ovcharenko lives in Palo Alto, California.

He graduated from Berkeley in 2015, not as an engineer, but as a lawyer.

His first connection to tech was in his first role, as an attorney at a tech company.

But outside of technology, he loves good sushi and burgers.

In addition, he does a bit of hiking, some for fun, but also some for business.

He's been known to take a meeting or two on the hiking trail.

Demetrio very much enjoyed working at his prior company, but he noticed the large gap between what his business was charging and what the engineers themselves received.

He thought he could close this gap to provide a better wage for the workers while saving businesses money.

This is the creation story of Alcor.

So let's dive into that starting point.

Maybe it's right there or maybe it's after, but I'm curious about what you would consider the MVP for Alcor, right?

As I talk about MVPs a lot on this show and I realized that this is about the workers and the actual engineers themselves and that's the business you're building.

But I'm curious about what that MVP might be for Alcor and how long it took you to bring it to life and what you were using to do so.

So in that time frame, though, before you were ready to scale, tell me about a decision or a tradeoff you had to make and how you approached what you were offering with Alcor.

And that could be around, you know, how you approach the problem, how you organized your team, really all the things.

I'm curious about those decisions and tradeoffs you had to make and how you coped with them.

Global hiring for engineering teams can be a nightmare.