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NERDS ON NOODLES

Like most raging tech-export success stories, this one has humble beginnings. When John Daniel Trask (JD) and Jeremy Boyd met while working for Wellington IT company Intergen they already shared a track record for computer coding from a very young age. They also quickly acknowledged and respected each other’s coding skills.

When JD had the crazy idea of launching Mindscape in 2007 – a software developer tools company situated above a drug and alcohol rehab clinic – they stocked the shoebox-sized office with two-minute noodles with the aim of, in JD’s words, “running the company super lean and pulling in all-nighters on

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