Meeting Title: Daily Sales Sync Date: 2024-12-16 Meeting participants: Robert Tseng, Miguel De Veyra, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:01:19.460 ⇒ 00:01:20.309 Uttam Kumaran: Here we go!
2 00:01:20.650 ⇒ 00:01:21.290 Miguel de Veyra: Hey? What’s him?
3 00:01:21.290 ⇒ 00:01:21.870 Uttam Kumaran: And.
4 00:01:22.460 ⇒ 00:01:23.560 Miguel de Veyra: How was the weekend.
5 00:01:24.530 ⇒ 00:01:27.640 Uttam Kumaran: Hey? Weekend was good relaxing.
6 00:01:28.120 ⇒ 00:01:28.939 Miguel de Veyra: How about you?
7 00:01:28.940 ⇒ 00:01:32.030 Miguel de Veyra: Yeah, it was a lot of marvel. Rivals.
8 00:01:35.190 ⇒ 00:01:36.909 Uttam Kumaran: What does that mean? What’s Mark?
9 00:01:40.167 ⇒ 00:01:42.950 Miguel de Veyra: It’s something. Have you played overwatch before.
10 00:01:43.720 ⇒ 00:01:47.780 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, once, but I know a lot about overwatch like familiar with the game.
11 00:01:47.780 ⇒ 00:01:51.040 Miguel de Veyra: It was something like that, but the characters are from marvel.
12 00:01:53.440 ⇒ 00:01:54.519 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, okay.
13 00:01:54.720 ⇒ 00:01:57.140 Miguel de Veyra: I played with Casey and Rico.
14 00:01:57.740 ⇒ 00:02:01.730 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, nice sick!
15 00:02:05.060 ⇒ 00:02:10.978 Uttam Kumaran: I’m just gonna send one message to the AI Channel. Maybe we’ll wait for Nico and Robert to join. But
16 00:02:12.102 ⇒ 00:02:16.260 Uttam Kumaran: I think we can run our 1st a project meeting today
17 00:02:16.630 ⇒ 00:02:27.900 Uttam Kumaran: I kind of started to get I’m almost done getting everything organized in notion. I’m you could. Probably I don’t know if you check notion today, but I moved a bunch of stuff around. So don’t worry but I’m gonna run.
18 00:02:28.290 ⇒ 00:02:29.442 Miguel de Veyra: I couldn’t track any.
19 00:02:29.730 ⇒ 00:02:35.239 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Okay, cool. Yeah. It’s all in a new area. I’ll I’m gonna show everything off in the brain forge team meeting.
20 00:02:35.690 ⇒ 00:02:37.339 Uttam Kumaran: But then, yeah, I think
21 00:02:37.930 ⇒ 00:02:45.749 Uttam Kumaran: let’s have them. I want to have a meeting today with the 3 of us. Go through all open items, a bunch of stuff. I think I have to. I’m gonna work on requirements for.
22 00:02:46.600 ⇒ 00:02:48.909 Miguel de Veyra: You mean Casey or Nico.
23 00:02:49.594 ⇒ 00:02:50.849 Uttam Kumaran: Me! You and Casey.
24 00:02:51.040 ⇒ 00:02:51.810 Miguel de Veyra: Okay. Okay.
25 00:02:56.185 ⇒ 00:03:00.010 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, see where the others are.
26 00:04:07.480 ⇒ 00:04:08.450 Uttam Kumaran: hey.
27 00:04:09.220 ⇒ 00:04:10.350 Robert Tseng: Hey? How’s it going.
28 00:04:10.840 ⇒ 00:04:11.660 Uttam Kumaran: Good.
29 00:04:14.300 ⇒ 00:04:15.520 Uttam Kumaran: How’s the weekend.
30 00:04:16.910 ⇒ 00:04:23.498 Robert Tseng: Weekend was good. Yeah. My my parents were in town until the weekend, and then
31 00:04:24.230 ⇒ 00:04:26.169 Robert Tseng: yeah, I just was able to
32 00:04:26.790 ⇒ 00:04:32.760 Robert Tseng: show that they could kind of hang out with my wife since we were not really together for like, 3 weeks.
33 00:04:32.760 ⇒ 00:04:33.170 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
34 00:04:35.310 ⇒ 00:04:42.159 Robert Tseng: Yeah. So all all good. And yeah. Now I feel ready to get out of this week.
35 00:04:43.890 ⇒ 00:04:45.370 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, weekend was good.
36 00:04:45.680 ⇒ 00:04:50.809 Uttam Kumaran: I last weekend I had some friends visiting, so this weekend was like really chill. I put up some Christmas lights.
37 00:04:50.940 ⇒ 00:04:55.050 Uttam Kumaran: although I I need to buy some more lights, cause I that was not enough.
38 00:04:55.220 ⇒ 00:04:58.740 Uttam Kumaran: I really underestimated the length that I needed.
39 00:04:59.180 ⇒ 00:05:05.739 Robert Tseng: I say you need like a hundred string lights for every foot of tree that you have.
40 00:05:07.690 ⇒ 00:05:08.270 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
41 00:05:08.270 ⇒ 00:05:12.419 Robert Tseng: Do the whole like, yeah, yeah. So this one, I’m doing just the roof.
42 00:05:12.940 ⇒ 00:05:14.119 Robert Tseng: Oh, okay, okay.
43 00:05:14.120 ⇒ 00:05:18.600 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t have any. I don’t have any trees directly in my yard.
44 00:05:18.890 ⇒ 00:05:24.970 Uttam Kumaran: but I mean it could be nice to do the entire fence, too. I don’t know. This is the 1st time I’m like.
45 00:05:25.200 ⇒ 00:05:33.420 Uttam Kumaran: This is where I call my dad and be like yo. Can you just do the light. He’s coming in like a few in like a week or 2. So I’m gonna have him
46 00:05:33.800 ⇒ 00:05:39.200 Uttam Kumaran: he loves. If I just set them on like a house project.
47 00:05:39.790 ⇒ 00:05:48.889 Uttam Kumaran: The problem is, he’s not nearly as organized as I am, so we don’t work together very well at all. I am very frustrated because he doesn’t like
48 00:05:49.300 ⇒ 00:06:06.169 Uttam Kumaran: plan anything. And I’m like, Dude. How are you going to accomplish your goal if you don’t have clear steps and what you need? And he’s like, I don’t know. I’ll just like we’ll just try it out and like, and then the ending it’ll turn out. It’ll turn out like pretty good like it’ll work.
49 00:06:06.300 ⇒ 00:06:15.059 Uttam Kumaran: but he may spend like way too long on it. So we we don’t really like. We don’t really collaborate on projects these days so
50 00:06:16.190 ⇒ 00:06:25.770 Uttam Kumaran: well, he is a Pm. Actually, he actually is a Pm. Which is surprising because his personal life is very chaotic. But he does a really good job at work. But.
51 00:06:26.070 ⇒ 00:06:28.680 Robert Tseng: Yeah dude, I I get that. Now now that like.
52 00:06:28.680 ⇒ 00:06:30.639 Uttam Kumaran: I told Ivy, that’s my life. Yeah.
53 00:06:30.640 ⇒ 00:06:37.429 Robert Tseng: Yeah, you have to be so turned on during work like outside of work. Now, I’m just like, I don’t really care. Just go along whatever.
54 00:06:37.660 ⇒ 00:06:46.840 Uttam Kumaran: You know, a friend of mine really told me this in a good way that stuck with me. He said. You know you work really hard. You also have to relax equally as hard.
55 00:06:46.980 ⇒ 00:06:53.639 Uttam Kumaran: and something about that really stuck with me. And now, like you can’t be because my version like.
56 00:06:53.850 ⇒ 00:07:17.170 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know. Still, like we care a lot about this. So like, if you’re relaxing, you’re still on your phone doing work stuff, or you’re kind of like sitting there thinking about work stuff you really do have to just do something that’s either like fully occupying, like, you’re like talking to somebody, or you’re like hanging out friends, or like watching like TV. But like, very, just like focusing in on it. And like, not really thinking about work stuff.
57 00:07:17.940 ⇒ 00:07:18.270 Robert Tseng: Like family.
58 00:07:18.270 ⇒ 00:07:24.900 Uttam Kumaran: For for a while I felt like, I’m like every minute of the day I’m like working or like I’m processing something
59 00:07:25.000 ⇒ 00:07:27.429 Uttam Kumaran: or like someone from work calls me
60 00:07:27.992 ⇒ 00:07:34.709 Uttam Kumaran: you know, so it’s a little bit like it’s a little bit tough that way. But getting but I’m getting better at it.
61 00:07:34.840 ⇒ 00:07:36.690 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, so.
62 00:07:38.260 ⇒ 00:07:39.010 Robert Tseng: Nice.
63 00:07:40.530 ⇒ 00:07:42.940 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, we’re gonna wait on Nico, or should we just jump into it?
64 00:07:42.940 ⇒ 00:07:44.856 Uttam Kumaran: Let’s just jump into it.
65 00:07:45.470 ⇒ 00:07:46.240 Robert Tseng: Okay.
66 00:07:47.310 ⇒ 00:07:52.690 Uttam Kumaran: So the nice thing is, notion is almost like.
67 00:07:52.850 ⇒ 00:07:54.180 Robert Tseng: Yeah, it. Looks.
68 00:07:54.180 ⇒ 00:08:00.354 Uttam Kumaran: Transition to like this new sort of version. The nice thing by new version is that
69 00:08:01.050 ⇒ 00:08:27.319 Uttam Kumaran: it’s honestly one. Someone else knows the structure now, like. So Marion built a lot of this. And so it’s we actually do have like a very kind of like overall architecture diagram. It’s a little bit. Od, it’s kind of like what I kind of wanted, and I’m glad she kind of has, like a very like she’s. She’s kind of like neurotic and like, she needs to see all the relationships which is really really great. I’m the same way, although, like, I don’t have time to do all that. So I’ll just like
70 00:08:27.510 ⇒ 00:08:34.769 Uttam Kumaran: skip a lot of that. But I’m glad we have all the flows written down. And then, yeah, we basically
71 00:08:35.169 ⇒ 00:08:42.250 Uttam Kumaran: one of the things that once we’re all ready, I’m gonna have her just do basically like trainings with everybody to kind of make sure everybody knows
72 00:08:42.809 ⇒ 00:08:46.790 Uttam Kumaran: everything from like their individual work to their teamwork to like
73 00:08:46.900 ⇒ 00:08:49.659 Uttam Kumaran: how we run meetings as a company through this.
74 00:08:49.790 ⇒ 00:08:51.100 Uttam Kumaran: But I think it’ll be.
75 00:08:52.320 ⇒ 00:08:55.820 Uttam Kumaran: Think it’ll be really good, nice
76 00:08:56.930 ⇒ 00:09:04.260 Uttam Kumaran: cool. So let’s talk about stuff that’s at the end. Hpi have not heard back from. I’ll bump
77 00:09:05.496 ⇒ 00:09:06.770 Uttam Kumaran: this week.
78 00:09:08.830 ⇒ 00:09:12.220 Uttam Kumaran: We send them an email asking like, hey? Do you guys want to move forward, or should we punt
79 00:09:13.830 ⇒ 00:09:18.029 Uttam Kumaran: Ergo, I don’t know if you sent this yet, Robert.
80 00:09:18.410 ⇒ 00:09:22.759 Robert Tseng: I did. Yeah, I’m gonna bump them today. Yeah.
81 00:09:23.990 ⇒ 00:09:25.849 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. So I’m just gonna say.
82 00:09:30.444 ⇒ 00:09:31.250 Uttam Kumaran: clever.
83 00:09:34.700 ⇒ 00:09:38.689 Robert Tseng: I didn’t check the brainforce email this morning yet, so I’m not sure did it.
84 00:09:38.690 ⇒ 00:09:41.899 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, yeah, no, we haven’t got anything. Never mind, we haven’t got anything yet.
85 00:09:41.900 ⇒ 00:09:49.349 Robert Tseng: Okay, yeah, yeah, we should probably just send a follow up with them, too.
86 00:09:50.570 ⇒ 00:09:54.050 Robert Tseng: I I can. I can follow up. Then.
87 00:09:54.670 ⇒ 00:09:56.770 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah, I know we’ve sent it out.
88 00:09:56.910 ⇒ 00:10:00.319 Uttam Kumaran: I guess he, he! I know he was meeting with some other people. So
89 00:10:00.570 ⇒ 00:10:02.599 Uttam Kumaran: maybe we can think about a follow up date.
90 00:10:03.560 ⇒ 00:10:04.160 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
91 00:10:06.950 ⇒ 00:10:11.779 Uttam Kumaran: Sasholic. I need to send this today. We kind of like finalize some stuff on Friday. And then I
92 00:10:12.300 ⇒ 00:10:15.229 Uttam Kumaran: sort of just like burnt out in the.
93 00:10:15.690 ⇒ 00:10:19.310 Uttam Kumaran: And so I need to do this. I need to do this like right now. After this.
94 00:10:19.770 ⇒ 00:10:20.510 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
95 00:10:21.050 ⇒ 00:10:22.560 Miguel de Veyra: Regarding South Pollock.
96 00:10:22.970 ⇒ 00:10:23.869 Robert Tseng: Yeah. Go ahead.
97 00:10:24.627 ⇒ 00:10:27.199 Miguel de Veyra: Regarding Sas Hollywood. Did they send anything or not? Yet.
98 00:10:27.490 ⇒ 00:10:31.039 Uttam Kumaran: No, not yet. So I’m gonna so I’m kinda gonna bump the whole thing.
99 00:10:31.390 ⇒ 00:10:32.180 Miguel de Veyra: Okay. Okay.
100 00:10:37.065 ⇒ 00:10:37.800 Uttam Kumaran: Rps.
101 00:10:39.700 ⇒ 00:10:42.919 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I’m I’m I’m gonna send it today.
102 00:10:44.180 ⇒ 00:10:44.730 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
103 00:10:45.970 ⇒ 00:10:51.199 Uttam Kumaran: Alright, is it? You’re just gonna send it like, are you want to use that same template, or are you just gonna send it via text.
104 00:10:52.308 ⇒ 00:10:56.429 Robert Tseng: You mean your your template like the everything.
105 00:10:56.700 ⇒ 00:11:02.370 Robert Tseng: Yeah, yeah, let’s let’s let’s let’s use that. So how do I like, yeah, just.
106 00:11:02.370 ⇒ 00:11:02.976 Uttam Kumaran: Let me
107 00:11:06.562 ⇒ 00:11:13.090 Uttam Kumaran: let me just make sure you’re in figma with your brain forge email, and then I’ll show you exactly where to go, and then
108 00:11:13.360 ⇒ 00:11:15.590 Uttam Kumaran: the only thing you probably need.
109 00:11:18.190 ⇒ 00:11:20.239 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, let me just make sure you’re in here.
110 00:11:23.880 ⇒ 00:11:28.299 Robert Tseng: I’m assuming I would just like duplicate one of the signs of this edit directly onto it.
111 00:11:28.300 ⇒ 00:11:29.569 Uttam Kumaran: Exactly. Yeah.
112 00:11:29.570 ⇒ 00:11:30.220 Robert Tseng: Okay.
113 00:11:36.370 ⇒ 00:11:38.570 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, I I invited you
114 00:11:44.300 ⇒ 00:11:48.480 Uttam Kumaran: and then I’ll send you where the location is. But yeah, we’ll just edit that. And then.
115 00:11:48.720 ⇒ 00:11:54.110 Uttam Kumaran: hopefully, just, I think we’ll do a couple. And then basically, we’ll think about how to like, make a really clean template.
116 00:11:55.010 ⇒ 00:11:56.580 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool?
117 00:12:07.090 ⇒ 00:12:13.489 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. This. So this Demo went really, really? Well, we are going to be meeting again
118 00:12:13.710 ⇒ 00:12:16.810 Uttam Kumaran: to talk about pricing.
119 00:12:19.000 ⇒ 00:12:25.939 Uttam Kumaran: I think they bumped to next month because of holidays.
120 00:12:26.490 ⇒ 00:12:29.210 Uttam Kumaran: which you know it is what it is.
121 00:12:30.188 ⇒ 00:12:35.559 Uttam Kumaran: However, this meeting went super super well, and they were both like really Gung ho!
122 00:12:35.680 ⇒ 00:12:43.560 Uttam Kumaran: I also pitched them on the account, the outcome based pricing they were good with that. So I do think something will happen here. I think the challenge is, gonna be like
123 00:12:43.730 ⇒ 00:12:51.800 Uttam Kumaran: moving this faster. So for that meeting I’m gonna come with like, I’m gonna basically come with an sow to
124 00:12:52.110 ⇒ 00:12:54.220 Uttam Kumaran: like kind of red line. I’m not.
125 00:12:54.220 ⇒ 00:12:55.360 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I’ll be. I’ll be on that call.
126 00:12:55.360 ⇒ 00:12:56.880 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Cool.
127 00:12:57.640 ⇒ 00:12:58.270 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
128 00:13:05.350 ⇒ 00:13:12.290 Uttam Kumaran: This is gonna be on the 9, th which kind of sucks
129 00:13:12.600 ⇒ 00:13:18.370 Uttam Kumaran: but I mean we couldn’t really. We moved as fast as we could, so the demo was super strong, though
130 00:13:19.220 ⇒ 00:13:24.990 Uttam Kumaran: this I haven’t heard back with. I need to follow up with Robert from tech systems.
131 00:13:27.490 ⇒ 00:13:30.389 Uttam Kumaran: See if this is even moving forward, or if it’s killed.
132 00:13:30.730 ⇒ 00:13:35.149 Uttam Kumaran: The last I mentioned, he said, there’s going to be a meeting on the 16.th But I’m not sure
133 00:13:37.660 ⇒ 00:13:38.860 Uttam Kumaran: that’s okay.
134 00:13:44.070 ⇒ 00:13:45.720 Uttam Kumaran: This one.
135 00:13:46.220 ⇒ 00:13:51.480 Uttam Kumaran: I think we need to. We just need to follow up with these guys. I think about a strategy.
136 00:13:54.460 ⇒ 00:13:58.729 Uttam Kumaran: I know, Robert, you mentioned that. You may chat with Jack Chen.
137 00:13:59.040 ⇒ 00:14:06.174 Robert Tseng: Yeah. Jack didn’t. Didn’t give me anything on gondola. He did kind of say some stuff about
138 00:14:06.950 ⇒ 00:14:10.245 Robert Tseng: the other company forgot where it’s on top of my head. But
139 00:14:12.080 ⇒ 00:14:17.321 Robert Tseng: cause he had he had. He had. He was my mutual. For 2 of these leads I forgot what the second one was, but
140 00:14:17.780 ⇒ 00:14:23.309 Robert Tseng: yeah, I have to look back at Linkedin to see what he said.
141 00:14:23.920 ⇒ 00:14:30.860 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t want to send them like a just a blank. Follow up. I kind of want to give them a clear set of actions. So I’m going to think more about this
142 00:14:31.170 ⇒ 00:14:32.655 Uttam Kumaran: roar. I think
143 00:14:33.470 ⇒ 00:14:38.299 Uttam Kumaran: Miguel mean, I think we’ll talk about this on the AI team about how we can accomplish this today.
144 00:14:39.270 ⇒ 00:14:44.279 Uttam Kumaran: how we can accomplish this this week. But I’ll talk about like what the all the actions are here.
145 00:14:49.400 ⇒ 00:14:58.510 Robert Tseng: Yeah, yeah, I don’t think I have access to like add access to a lot of these pages. So that’s why, yeah.
146 00:14:59.299 ⇒ 00:15:02.849 Uttam Kumaran: Can you check that with your brain forge email?
147 00:15:04.420 ⇒ 00:15:08.880 Robert Tseng: Okay, yeah, I think I am on. I’m using it. Yeah.
148 00:15:11.460 ⇒ 00:15:14.510 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, here, let me just make you. I just made you an owner of everything.
149 00:15:15.140 ⇒ 00:15:23.969 Robert Tseng: Okay, okay, yeah. Now, I see stuff and and I still.
150 00:15:25.800 ⇒ 00:15:26.300 Uttam Kumaran: Still no.
151 00:15:26.300 ⇒ 00:15:31.750 Robert Tseng: Maybe it’s because Marianne owns it, or something that I can’t add directly to it. I’m not sure.
152 00:15:35.860 ⇒ 00:15:37.309 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, wait! Hold on
153 00:15:45.940 ⇒ 00:15:47.490 Uttam Kumaran: to notion.
154 00:15:47.860 ⇒ 00:15:51.499 Uttam Kumaran: Role is really complicated. Unfortunately.
155 00:15:51.500 ⇒ 00:15:52.180 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
156 00:15:56.590 ⇒ 00:15:59.050 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, try now. You should be good. Now.
157 00:15:59.600 ⇒ 00:16:00.230 Robert Tseng: Okay.
158 00:16:03.660 ⇒ 00:16:04.410 Robert Tseng: Yep.
159 00:16:05.300 ⇒ 00:16:13.509 Uttam Kumaran: Cool, cool. So one I need to move to partnership. This is still sort of in the
160 00:16:18.490 ⇒ 00:16:22.250 Uttam Kumaran: Televira health reconnecting. I’m gonna follow up with
161 00:16:34.170 ⇒ 00:16:36.260 Uttam Kumaran: anything on.
162 00:16:36.660 ⇒ 00:16:37.949 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, yeah, I guess
163 00:16:41.720 ⇒ 00:16:49.319 Uttam Kumaran: So the I think I’ll go the last one on my side. Christina Brady. Yeah, we’re circling back in January. Well, that was a really good meeting.
164 00:16:49.510 ⇒ 00:16:50.870 Uttam Kumaran: I think she liked us.
165 00:16:51.540 ⇒ 00:16:53.915 Uttam Kumaran: We’ll see serious.
166 00:16:55.660 ⇒ 00:17:04.020 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I I did the big demo. It’s kind of on them to think about it. This is more of like a weird, I don’t know, like I’m not super confident in them.
167 00:17:04.140 ⇒ 00:17:07.869 Uttam Kumaran: So I’m kind of just gonna leave this in the back burner and kind of let them think through.
168 00:17:10.020 ⇒ 00:17:16.870 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s that. Yeah, I guess, Robert, you can go ahead on on these ones.
169 00:17:17.310 ⇒ 00:17:19.619 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I just added a few. So
170 00:17:20.140 ⇒ 00:17:23.510 Robert Tseng: Suto, I think I don’t know. I haven’t heard anything, so let’s kill that one.
171 00:17:25.200 ⇒ 00:17:29.119 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I guess. Should I? Just okay, you’re.
172 00:17:29.120 ⇒ 00:17:33.719 Uttam Kumaran: I just threw in. So I just threw it in the status. I just created these like
173 00:17:33.870 ⇒ 00:17:38.210 Uttam Kumaran: statuses. And basically, if anything that’s lost, I also put the reason.
174 00:17:38.760 ⇒ 00:17:39.340 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
175 00:17:39.340 ⇒ 00:17:40.824 Uttam Kumaran: But lost, ghosted.
176 00:17:41.320 ⇒ 00:17:41.960 Robert Tseng: Yep.
177 00:17:42.110 ⇒ 00:17:43.170 Robert Tseng: Okay.
178 00:17:43.936 ⇒ 00:17:50.380 Robert Tseng: Yeah. I think elephant or element, I think also like lost. It seems like they probably got someone else or something.
179 00:17:53.570 ⇒ 00:17:59.360 Uttam Kumaran: Okay that way, it’s here. And in case we want to circle back later, we can circle back.
180 00:17:59.800 ⇒ 00:18:20.279 Robert Tseng: Yeah. So groom buggy. I don’t know if I mentioned this last week. But this guy he’s a he’s a founder of thumbtack. I’ve been talking to him for a while. I did like a pricing engagement with him like last last year. Yeah, now, he’s like wanting some help to do like market sizing research as they’re trying to raise like the series. A
181 00:18:20.762 ⇒ 00:18:26.750 Robert Tseng: it’s a little bit like, not like typical of a lead, but I think the team is
182 00:18:27.280 ⇒ 00:18:33.400 Robert Tseng: is good, and I would like to work with them again. So yeah, I mean, I already kind of like sent him.
183 00:18:33.760 ⇒ 00:18:44.710 Robert Tseng: We we chatted a bit over the weekend, and then yeah, I mean, they’re they’re looking to make a decision this week. So I guess. What if we do move forward, what it would end up being is, it would be like a
184 00:18:45.133 ⇒ 00:18:58.330 Robert Tseng: like a 6 to 10 week thing. And yeah, I mean, I already told them that we would do 200 an hour, and I think I think he’d be. I think it’d probably just be like a paper hour. Kind of thing.
185 00:18:59.150 ⇒ 00:18:59.760 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
186 00:19:03.360 ⇒ 00:19:06.844 Robert Tseng: They’re yeah, I mean, they’re they’re like
187 00:19:07.710 ⇒ 00:19:12.419 Robert Tseng: pet grooming like mobile pet grooming marketplace. Kind of thing.
188 00:19:13.670 ⇒ 00:19:14.770 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, interesting!
189 00:19:15.100 ⇒ 00:19:15.730 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
190 00:19:16.690 ⇒ 00:19:19.330 Uttam Kumaran: So you already sent them the note with the pricing and everything.
191 00:19:20.434 ⇒ 00:19:31.139 Robert Tseng: No, it was just he was looking for something very specific. So he just texted me. And then, I just like texted him like a project that I had done at Ruggle that was similar to what he was asking for.
192 00:19:31.587 ⇒ 00:19:40.219 Robert Tseng: And then he was like, Yeah, this is what I’m looking for like. Let me circle back the team. Let you know as they’re trying to find someone this week.
193 00:19:40.920 ⇒ 00:19:43.019 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, I’m gonna just set this as
194 00:19:43.900 ⇒ 00:19:45.750 Uttam Kumaran: review, and we’ll just talk about it.
195 00:19:46.650 ⇒ 00:19:52.990 Robert Tseng: Yeah, scrib. They just like lost a lot of product analysts. In the past, like
196 00:19:53.380 ⇒ 00:19:57.420 Robert Tseng: in Q 3. And so I’m talking. I’ve been talking to like they’re like.
197 00:19:57.910 ⇒ 00:20:06.450 Robert Tseng: I don’t know, like their product data manager, or whatever. Yeah, I think they’re open to contracting now. So I’m actually hopping on a call with them later today.
198 00:20:06.858 ⇒ 00:20:12.109 Robert Tseng: Just to see kind of like get a better sense of the scope. I would say, this is more like a discovery call.
199 00:20:12.420 ⇒ 00:20:13.560 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Great.
200 00:20:14.010 ⇒ 00:20:14.700 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
201 00:20:17.810 ⇒ 00:20:31.360 Robert Tseng: crab TV, I think I mentioned this. They’re basically like TV, based advertisements. I I mean, I think there’s a there’s a deal on the on the. There’s a proposal on the on the table. So we’re trying to, I’m trying to meet with their
202 00:20:31.510 ⇒ 00:20:46.279 Robert Tseng: team tomorrow. I I picked time. Slots that I saw were available on your calendar, too, Tom. I’m not sure if I would bring you into it at this point until there’s like, actually money on the table. But yeah, I think that’s that’s another.
203 00:20:46.280 ⇒ 00:20:47.934 Uttam Kumaran: Dude. I know a lot about
204 00:20:49.000 ⇒ 00:20:52.280 Uttam Kumaran: TV, related analytics.
205 00:20:52.690 ⇒ 00:20:53.759 Robert Tseng: Oh, yeah, you do.
206 00:20:54.090 ⇒ 00:21:00.869 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, we did a lot of TV stuff at flow code, both like buying content.
207 00:21:01.220 ⇒ 00:21:05.430 Uttam Kumaran: We like processing the data from all the big networks like, you know. So I.
208 00:21:05.430 ⇒ 00:21:05.950 Robert Tseng: Okay.
209 00:21:05.950 ⇒ 00:21:17.279 Uttam Kumaran: All the data in that world. And then, yeah, I know, kind of like the stuff they probably try to do, which is like identity resolution. Also, like I have a friend that works at chive
210 00:21:18.005 ⇒ 00:21:28.059 Uttam Kumaran: formerly, or their chai, but they were now something else called atmosphere. He runs finance there. They’re like one of the big players. And basically like this sort of
211 00:21:28.160 ⇒ 00:21:33.744 Uttam Kumaran: full stack TV, so yeah, I think,
212 00:21:34.910 ⇒ 00:21:42.679 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I kind of know a little bit about how this this world works. And then also, like, yeah, I did a lot of research on visio and how their ads network works. So
213 00:21:42.790 ⇒ 00:21:46.129 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, it should be good. But let me in whenever.
214 00:21:46.690 ⇒ 00:21:53.779 Robert Tseng: Okay? So in that case, yeah, if it’s a meeting with like the grab TV execs, then I would probably bring you in there. Just wanna have you? Kind of.
215 00:21:54.120 ⇒ 00:22:05.469 Robert Tseng: you know, just share some of that knowledge with them. Right now, my main stakeholder, there has been like the chief, or like, I guess I don’t know head of product or something. So
216 00:22:06.980 ⇒ 00:22:18.970 Robert Tseng: yeah, I think the last thing I did for them was, well, I I tried to work with them like in q 1 of this year and didn’t end up working out so trying to sell them on like an activity, feed kind of thing. But
217 00:22:19.220 ⇒ 00:22:19.820 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
218 00:22:20.060 ⇒ 00:22:20.680 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
219 00:22:22.470 ⇒ 00:22:28.690 Robert Tseng: but it seems like they just raised like a 2 million round. And they’re looking to actually like, build out their data stack now. So I think it’s just
220 00:22:30.260 ⇒ 00:22:31.130 Robert Tseng: okay.
221 00:22:31.630 ⇒ 00:22:32.260 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
222 00:22:32.690 ⇒ 00:22:50.080 Robert Tseng: So in that line, TV vision is also on there TV vision. The Vp of finances, my buddy from flow space. He’s kind of. He started there a few months ago, and he’s kind of seeing like, hey, they actually need a lot of help on the data side. So yeah, we’re gonna we’re gonna chat this week as well.
223 00:22:51.160 ⇒ 00:22:52.299 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, nice. Okay.
224 00:22:52.870 ⇒ 00:22:57.930 Robert Tseng: Yeah. So it’s kind of a similar streaming analytics kind of thing.
225 00:22:57.930 ⇒ 00:23:03.640 Uttam Kumaran: Well, let me. I’m gonna message, my friend. At atmosphere atmosphere
226 00:23:10.300 ⇒ 00:23:13.599 Uttam Kumaran: is this company?
227 00:23:20.580 ⇒ 00:23:23.340 Uttam Kumaran: He they were like a huge.
228 00:23:23.720 ⇒ 00:23:27.369 Uttam Kumaran: like kind of like Vc. Darling company, and then they got
229 00:23:27.470 ⇒ 00:23:31.010 Uttam Kumaran: they just got like fucked like they ran out a lot of money.
230 00:23:31.580 ⇒ 00:23:32.020 Robert Tseng: Oh, yeah.
231 00:23:32.020 ⇒ 00:23:36.970 Uttam Kumaran: Size their business. But my friend is basically like head of finance here. I just met him.
232 00:23:37.380 ⇒ 00:23:40.189 Uttam Kumaran: I just I met him through a mutual friend here in Austin.
233 00:23:40.470 ⇒ 00:23:43.930 Uttam Kumaran: Good guy like a New York guy. So
234 00:23:45.130 ⇒ 00:23:48.720 Uttam Kumaran: I may just text some of these and be like, Yo, you know, the any of these guys.
235 00:23:49.360 ⇒ 00:23:54.000 Robert Tseng: Okay, that is oh, go ahead.
236 00:23:54.380 ⇒ 00:23:55.489 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, got it! Got it! Got it!
237 00:23:56.200 ⇒ 00:23:57.960 Robert Tseng: Oh, yeah, sorry I was. I thought I was just kidding.
238 00:23:57.960 ⇒ 00:23:58.290 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
239 00:23:58.290 ⇒ 00:24:06.140 Robert Tseng: move on to the next one. Thatch is a they’re like a I guess, like a health insurance marketplace. Kind of thing.
240 00:24:06.597 ⇒ 00:24:17.150 Robert Tseng: I know they’re like product and Ops manager. So I I just I have a set up a call with him. This is just like we, we just. We’ve just been chatting a bit, trying to understand his data stack
241 00:24:17.180 ⇒ 00:24:39.699 Robert Tseng: right now. They they self host and deploy into metabase but they’re hiring right now, for, like their 1st analytics engineer. So I think I was just. I just asked the question. I was like, interesting that you set up like Meta Base. We don’t really have anybody doing the data modeling. So not really sure what they’re reporting on so I’m just trying to poke holes at like kind of what his setup is, and trying to see if there’s a way for for us to to get in on that.
242 00:24:41.710 ⇒ 00:24:44.169 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, it looks like they just raised money, too.
243 00:24:44.810 ⇒ 00:24:45.250 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
244 00:24:45.250 ⇒ 00:24:46.130 Uttam Kumaran: Recently.
245 00:24:46.560 ⇒ 00:24:53.460 Robert Tseng: This is a lead that was passed to me from metabase. It’s like somebody that they’re trying to as a client that they’re trying to activate more.
246 00:24:53.844 ⇒ 00:25:01.910 Robert Tseng: Since I’m a Meta based partner. They just told me. And I realized I had a mutual connect with them. So I just like tried to. I I just messaged them last week.
247 00:25:03.790 ⇒ 00:25:04.890 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Sick.
248 00:25:05.140 ⇒ 00:25:06.010 Uttam Kumaran: Nice.
249 00:25:06.290 ⇒ 00:25:13.919 Robert Tseng: Cool. Yeah, as far as the not I did Ping, or I sent a detail message last on on Friday, so I’ll probably follow up with him this week.
250 00:25:15.100 ⇒ 00:25:15.670 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
251 00:25:16.510 ⇒ 00:25:21.173 Robert Tseng: Yeah, yeah, that’s
252 00:25:21.930 ⇒ 00:25:24.829 Robert Tseng: That’s pretty much it on my side.
253 00:25:26.460 ⇒ 00:25:31.769 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, sick. So a couple of the like we, I mean, we have a bunch kind of in the final round. So.
254 00:25:32.100 ⇒ 00:25:32.780 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
255 00:25:32.920 ⇒ 00:25:33.970 Uttam Kumaran: Let’s see.
256 00:25:34.826 ⇒ 00:25:41.160 Uttam Kumaran: I think we’ll kind of think of a process once these close basic process to
257 00:25:41.330 ⇒ 00:25:45.650 Uttam Kumaran: execute and everything, and then onboarding, and then also for the ones that die.
258 00:25:45.770 ⇒ 00:25:54.410 Uttam Kumaran: we’ll think about a process on like, how do we get them into a funnel to circle back, basically or like follow up so we can think more about this. But I think this meeting is
259 00:25:55.140 ⇒ 00:25:56.110 Uttam Kumaran: is great.
260 00:25:56.486 ⇒ 00:26:14.269 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll kind of try to get a little bit more focused on what we talk about, and particularly, I think every day will be, I think, probably Monday and Friday, maybe a little bit more refresh by Monday is more like, Okay, what is everything in progress? But I think during the week it’s more about like, do we follow up this? What’s next? Things like that. So this will get better.
261 00:26:14.270 ⇒ 00:26:16.900 Robert Tseng: Be more tactical with the ones that are actually moving. Yeah.
262 00:26:17.180 ⇒ 00:26:18.956 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, and then
263 00:26:20.520 ⇒ 00:26:31.679 Uttam Kumaran: I think every day I’m look, I’m basically gonna I’ll try to look at this before I log off. Just make sure this is updated. And then I’m gonna message. I have a couple of messages to send for friends just to get their take on some of these, so I will. I’ll do that.
264 00:26:32.780 ⇒ 00:26:33.490 Robert Tseng: Okay.
265 00:26:33.620 ⇒ 00:26:34.440 Robert Tseng: Cool.
266 00:26:35.190 ⇒ 00:26:39.019 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, sick. Let’s hop on to the other meeting.
267 00:26:41.120 ⇒ 00:26:41.870 Robert Tseng: Alright!
268 00:26:43.260 ⇒ 00:26:44.909 Uttam Kumaran: Alright, guys, I’ll talk to you on there.