Meeting Title: ABC Project Check-in and Intern Roles Date: 2025-06-27 Meeting participants: Luke Daque, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:00:33.240 ⇒ 00:00:34.350 Uttam Kumaran: Hey! Dude.
2 00:00:35.300 ⇒ 00:00:36.880 Luke Daque: Hey? How’s it going.
3 00:00:36.880 ⇒ 00:00:38.170 Uttam Kumaran: Hey? Good! How are you?
4 00:00:38.630 ⇒ 00:00:39.739 Luke Daque: Yeah, doing? Well.
5 00:00:40.750 ⇒ 00:00:41.970 Uttam Kumaran: As a family.
6 00:00:43.010 ⇒ 00:00:48.590 Luke Daque: Yeah, everyone’s doing fine. It’s like summer break here. So like the kids are.
7 00:00:49.313 ⇒ 00:00:55.960 Luke Daque: don’t pass schools. They have, like all the time in the world to do random stuff.
8 00:00:55.960 ⇒ 00:00:56.999 Uttam Kumaran: See how they’re doing.
9 00:00:59.650 ⇒ 00:01:04.100 Luke Daque: Nothing much really like house chores. Try to
10 00:01:04.370 ⇒ 00:01:11.379 Luke Daque: let them help with the house chores like even cleaning their dishes, or like folding their clothes and stuff like that, and then.
11 00:01:11.380 ⇒ 00:01:12.020 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
12 00:01:12.350 ⇒ 00:01:16.630 Luke Daque: Like. They also have, like jujit jitsu classes like to.
13 00:01:16.630 ⇒ 00:01:16.959 Uttam Kumaran: All right.
14 00:01:16.960 ⇒ 00:01:17.870 Luke Daque: Times a week.
15 00:01:18.250 ⇒ 00:01:20.839 Luke Daque: Just so we have some sort of physical activity.
16 00:01:21.450 ⇒ 00:01:23.489 Luke Daque: And then other than that, they have like
17 00:01:23.930 ⇒ 00:01:26.570 Luke Daque: they, they just basically do anything they want.
18 00:01:27.519 ⇒ 00:01:34.979 Uttam Kumaran: That’s good. Are they like, are they like it’s doing like no summer schools, or like summer class like somewhere like.
19 00:01:35.330 ⇒ 00:01:38.599 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know I used to do like science camps and stuff.
20 00:01:39.010 ⇒ 00:01:42.960 Luke Daque: Yeah, I didn’t enroll them to any summer class at the moment.
21 00:01:43.060 ⇒ 00:01:47.840 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah, nice.
22 00:01:48.690 ⇒ 00:01:51.840 Uttam Kumaran: How’s everything? Yeah. How’s everything? Otherwise.
23 00:01:52.280 ⇒ 00:01:55.020 Luke Daque: Everything’s going well so far.
24 00:01:55.850 ⇒ 00:01:57.549 Luke Daque: How about you like?
25 00:01:57.730 ⇒ 00:02:04.200 Luke Daque: It’s very different now, like, since the 1st time we started right like a year and a half.
26 00:02:04.200 ⇒ 00:02:04.850 Uttam Kumaran: Totally.
27 00:02:05.180 ⇒ 00:02:07.320 Luke Daque: It’s so cool like.
28 00:02:08.560 ⇒ 00:02:20.030 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I wonder what you think? Because even today I was like, I don’t know if anyone remembers and we didn’t have any interns or anything. I mean, I feel like we did grow a lot earlier this year in terms of people. And now we sort of stabilized.
29 00:02:20.030 ⇒ 00:02:23.899 Luke Daque: Yeah, yeah, that’d be amazing.
30 00:02:26.180 ⇒ 00:02:26.960 Luke Daque: Yeah.
31 00:02:28.090 ⇒ 00:02:36.190 Luke Daque: And like, are, are the interns like, what type of jobs are they gonna do like the interns are they like Beta related.
32 00:02:36.570 ⇒ 00:02:39.849 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, they’re gonna be helping with like, internal
33 00:02:40.460 ⇒ 00:02:57.970 Uttam Kumaran: internal data measurement. So like helping our marketing team do measurement and helping me do some helping me do some financial and operations that like, I want to start measuring like our linear ticket velocity and like stuff like that. So yeah, they’re gonna be helping with that.
34 00:02:58.630 ⇒ 00:03:01.239 Luke Daque: Yeah, that’s a great project for them to have.
35 00:03:01.850 ⇒ 00:03:04.750 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so that should be good.
36 00:03:07.160 ⇒ 00:03:07.770 Luke Daque: Cool.
37 00:03:09.180 ⇒ 00:03:27.039 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I just wanna say, Hi and check in. And I know I kind of looked at sort of the projects you’re on. So I wanted to see. Yeah, I think I’ve been sort of running the AI team, and I think there is probably a little bit of room to spend on just talking about platform, you know, and I can. I think it’ll just probably
38 00:03:27.360 ⇒ 00:03:34.799 Uttam Kumaran: just talking about a couple of things I need with Meta playing. I think it’s been helpful. I think Amber’s looping you into. ABC,
39 00:03:35.110 ⇒ 00:03:35.940 Uttam Kumaran: yeah.
40 00:03:35.940 ⇒ 00:03:37.560 Luke Daque: So I guess, just like, yeah, yeah.
41 00:03:37.760 ⇒ 00:03:38.480 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
42 00:03:38.910 ⇒ 00:03:39.460 Luke Daque: Cool.
43 00:03:41.900 ⇒ 00:03:48.330 Luke Daque: Yeah. And I don’t like for pool parts. I don’t think there’s like much going on from the A data side. I think they’re like.
44 00:03:48.330 ⇒ 00:03:48.730 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
45 00:03:48.730 ⇒ 00:03:51.380 Luke Daque: Into the AI stuff. Now, so, yeah.
46 00:03:51.380 ⇒ 00:03:51.780 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
47 00:03:51.780 ⇒ 00:03:52.550 Luke Daque: A quote.
48 00:03:53.560 ⇒ 00:03:58.280 Uttam Kumaran: That’s correct. Yeah. So I think that’s fine, like.
49 00:03:58.660 ⇒ 00:04:01.470 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t sort of don’t mind that too much.
50 00:04:01.710 ⇒ 00:04:02.550 Luke Daque: Yeah.
51 00:04:03.190 ⇒ 00:04:04.020 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
52 00:04:07.050 ⇒ 00:04:09.879 Luke Daque: Yeah. And like, we’ve been like working pretty.
53 00:04:10.080 ⇒ 00:04:16.360 Luke Daque: I would say pretty decently with, between me, Annie and Amber, I wish for like matter more.
54 00:04:16.510 ⇒ 00:04:17.170 Luke Daque: Okay.
55 00:04:17.170 ⇒ 00:04:17.550 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
56 00:04:17.550 ⇒ 00:04:18.190 Luke Daque: Yeah, yeah.
57 00:04:18.190 ⇒ 00:04:18.930 Uttam Kumaran: Good.
58 00:04:19.839 ⇒ 00:04:21.319 Luke Daque: So, yeah, it should be.
59 00:04:21.760 ⇒ 00:04:23.919 Uttam Kumaran: I’m glad that seems to be pretty stable.
60 00:04:24.330 ⇒ 00:04:25.330 Luke Daque: Hmm, yeah.
61 00:04:27.450 ⇒ 00:04:34.084 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think I think, yeah, I think that would be a really interesting case study as well. And then, yeah, I feel like
62 00:04:35.230 ⇒ 00:04:42.119 Uttam Kumaran: I, I think, doing some help on the ABC work. And then we have, like we have probably, I think, another 3 or 4 clients starting.
63 00:04:42.120 ⇒ 00:04:42.640 Luke Daque: It’s what I mean.
64 00:04:42.640 ⇒ 00:04:48.200 Uttam Kumaran: Soon, which is kind of crazy, so there will be some ae work that comes out of that for sure.
65 00:04:49.060 ⇒ 00:04:50.440 Luke Daque: Yeah, that’s so cool.
66 00:04:51.100 ⇒ 00:04:53.349 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, it’s it’s really crazy.
67 00:04:53.510 ⇒ 00:05:00.219 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, but like we’ve been selling so much. So everything takes like 3 months. So to like close. So it’s.
68 00:05:00.450 ⇒ 00:05:02.610 Luke Daque: Sort of all accumulating.
69 00:05:04.230 ⇒ 00:05:11.659 Luke Daque: Now they’re suddenly yeah, like, I’m going to one by one, getting in.
70 00:05:12.170 ⇒ 00:05:16.140 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. And I think all our our team is really really great, too, you know. So
71 00:05:16.676 ⇒ 00:05:19.640 Uttam Kumaran: I think the current crew is all really, really solid.
72 00:05:20.160 ⇒ 00:05:21.220 Luke Daque: Yeah, nice.
73 00:05:23.180 ⇒ 00:05:29.430 Luke Daque: Do we have any like open positions? By the way, aside from the interns?
74 00:05:30.190 ⇒ 00:05:30.799 Luke Daque: Because I’ve got.
75 00:05:30.800 ⇒ 00:05:31.449 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean.
76 00:05:32.470 ⇒ 00:05:33.020 Luke Daque: Like.
77 00:05:33.020 ⇒ 00:05:33.350 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
78 00:05:33.350 ⇒ 00:05:39.909 Luke Daque: Folks that I worked with before at at tell us they got like laid off, or something so.
79 00:05:40.380 ⇒ 00:05:41.410 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, really. Okay.
80 00:05:41.410 ⇒ 00:05:43.599 Luke Daque: Like any openings or something.
81 00:05:43.980 ⇒ 00:05:51.220 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, you know me. I’m always. I’m always talking open to talking to any data. People like, what are their backgrounds.
82 00:05:52.570 ⇒ 00:05:56.279 Luke Daque: Yeah, like, once a senior data engineer.
83 00:05:56.540 ⇒ 00:06:03.220 Luke Daque: another one is I guess, junior, or like intermediate data engineer as well.
84 00:06:03.420 ⇒ 00:06:11.160 Luke Daque: And then another guy’s like he was a manager like Qa. Manager or like project manager as well. So
85 00:06:11.884 ⇒ 00:06:17.720 Luke Daque: if we need any. Qa. I I guess we don’t do any software. But so, okay.
86 00:06:18.550 ⇒ 00:06:21.420 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, but we are sort of looking for Pm, support as well.
87 00:06:21.420 ⇒ 00:06:26.300 Luke Daque: Yeah, yeah, he would be great for Pm. For pm, he was doing Pm. Roles as well.
88 00:06:26.730 ⇒ 00:06:28.939 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. So you work. You work directly with them.
89 00:06:29.250 ⇒ 00:06:32.289 Luke Daque: Yeah, like they, they were basically in a team before.
90 00:06:32.750 ⇒ 00:06:33.610 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, okay.
91 00:06:33.610 ⇒ 00:06:36.339 Luke Daque: Where I was like. Also the engineer.
92 00:06:36.980 ⇒ 00:06:37.980 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Okay.
93 00:06:38.490 ⇒ 00:06:40.950 Luke Daque: Today you can. Maybe I can send you.
94 00:06:40.950 ⇒ 00:06:45.159 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, if you could send me their their linkedins or resume, and then I would love if you like.
95 00:06:45.590 ⇒ 00:06:50.057 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, if you if you endorse them. Then I’m down to to chat with each of them.
96 00:06:50.450 ⇒ 00:06:55.119 Uttam Kumaran: I think, probably for the Pm. I’m going to have them talk to Amber.
97 00:06:56.680 ⇒ 00:07:01.510 Uttam Kumaran: But for the other 2 yeah, it’ll be either me or wish we can. Ha! We’re happy to talk to them.
98 00:07:02.070 ⇒ 00:07:02.730 Luke Daque: Sounds good.
99 00:07:03.420 ⇒ 00:07:15.549 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, especially, you know, other people losing great folks is their problem for us. It’s like, I just wanna make sure we have great staff, you know, so happy to consider them, especially if they work with you, which makes it a lot easier.
100 00:07:15.890 ⇒ 00:07:24.870 Luke Daque: Yeah, cool sounds good. I’ll I’ll probably send you there. I’ll look for it.
101 00:07:25.170 ⇒ 00:07:27.659 Luke Daque: Their linkings if I have them or link.
102 00:07:28.214 ⇒ 00:07:30.489 Luke Daque: Okay, just send you an email or something.
103 00:07:30.740 ⇒ 00:07:31.410 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
104 00:07:35.390 ⇒ 00:07:35.940 Luke Daque: Nope.
105 00:07:36.790 ⇒ 00:07:45.929 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. Okay, that’s probably all I had. So yeah, I mean, I think, we’ll, I think we’ll probably start kicking off some more Meta plane stuff because I want to get Meta plane onto urban Sims.
106 00:07:46.616 ⇒ 00:07:53.019 Uttam Kumaran: And sort of just get get it ready for sort of get some documentation for ready on how we can add it to any
107 00:07:53.510 ⇒ 00:07:57.959 Uttam Kumaran: other clients. So yeah, we can talk through that Monday with the whole team.
108 00:07:58.990 ⇒ 00:08:00.309 Luke Daque: Oh, sounds good. Yeah.
109 00:08:00.790 ⇒ 00:08:01.630 Luke Daque: Nice.
110 00:08:03.720 ⇒ 00:08:06.729 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Perfect. Anything else.
111 00:08:10.010 ⇒ 00:08:16.339 Luke Daque: No, I think that’s pretty fine. I don’t think I have anything else.
112 00:08:16.600 ⇒ 00:08:21.790 Luke Daque: Maybe just the the next month I’ll be traveling to us, but.
113 00:08:21.790 ⇒ 00:08:22.970 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, okay.
114 00:08:22.970 ⇒ 00:08:24.029 Luke Daque: Yeah. So like
115 00:08:24.170 ⇒ 00:08:34.019 Luke Daque: June July 18, I’ll be flying to the Us. I’ll be landing at Atlanta and then have a 1 week road trip to New York.
116 00:08:34.510 ⇒ 00:08:42.039 Luke Daque: No way. Okay for around August 4, or like the weekend of that, I guess. Like.
117 00:08:42.450 ⇒ 00:08:48.230 Uttam Kumaran: Wow! Okay. Well, you should come. Well, one, you should certainly come. See Robert when you’re here.
118 00:08:48.810 ⇒ 00:08:50.050 Luke Daque: He’s in New York right.
119 00:08:50.685 ⇒ 00:08:51.319 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
120 00:08:51.320 ⇒ 00:08:53.270 Luke Daque: Cool. Yeah, I’ll do that.
121 00:08:53.420 ⇒ 00:08:55.039 Luke Daque: It’s not sending a message.
122 00:08:55.630 ⇒ 00:08:56.549 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, and then.
123 00:08:56.550 ⇒ 00:09:00.820 Luke Daque: Days, and then I’ll be in New Jersey like
124 00:09:01.370 ⇒ 00:09:12.560 Luke Daque: the rest of the next 2 weeks. It’s like, it’s my cousin’s wedding. Yeah. But yeah, they’ll be in New Jersey. But that’s just like a bus ride from New York, I guess.
125 00:09:12.820 ⇒ 00:09:18.179 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Okay, yeah. Text, send me the dates or, yeah, let’s plan something.
126 00:09:19.910 ⇒ 00:09:20.770 Luke Daque: That’s me!
127 00:09:22.450 ⇒ 00:09:24.060 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, perfect.
128 00:09:31.060 ⇒ 00:09:33.330 Luke Daque: Yeah, I think that’s about it on my end.
129 00:09:36.790 ⇒ 00:09:39.439 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, perfect. Alright. Well, slack me if you need anything.
130 00:09:40.210 ⇒ 00:09:41.510 Luke Daque: Sounds good. Thanks a lot.
131 00:09:41.510 ⇒ 00:09:43.490 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Thank you. Bye.
132 00:09:43.700 ⇒ 00:09:44.280 Luke Daque: Bye, bye.