Meeting Title: Brainforge HR Discussion Date: 2025-07-25 Meeting participants: Uttam Kumaran, Robert Tseng
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1 00:04:19.290 ⇒ 00:04:20.360 Robert Tseng: Hello!
2 00:04:23.610 ⇒ 00:04:24.250 Uttam Kumaran: Alright.
3 00:04:29.320 ⇒ 00:04:30.320 Uttam Kumaran: Can you hear me?
4 00:04:30.510 ⇒ 00:04:31.480 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I can hear you.
5 00:04:32.010 ⇒ 00:04:34.450 Uttam Kumaran: Where are you? You’re in off your office somewhere.
6 00:04:35.094 ⇒ 00:04:38.439 Robert Tseng: Yeah. So I’m I’m on campus. I kinda come here.
7 00:04:38.440 ⇒ 00:04:38.910 Uttam Kumaran: Nice.
8 00:04:39.160 ⇒ 00:04:42.819 Robert Tseng: Yeah, there’s like a phone booth that no one uses. Because why would
9 00:04:45.420 ⇒ 00:04:47.620 Robert Tseng: I take a lot of my meetings in here now.
10 00:04:48.060 ⇒ 00:04:48.910 Uttam Kumaran: Nice.
11 00:04:49.300 ⇒ 00:04:49.890 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
12 00:04:50.190 ⇒ 00:04:51.080 Uttam Kumaran: Sick.
13 00:04:52.270 ⇒ 00:04:57.120 Robert Tseng: Yeah, it’s nice. It’s like having an office, and that someone cleans for me and stuff. So.
14 00:04:57.970 ⇒ 00:04:58.990 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, great!
15 00:05:00.770 ⇒ 00:05:01.520 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
16 00:05:04.390 ⇒ 00:05:07.309 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, let me just finish up this one email. I’m sending.
17 00:05:07.310 ⇒ 00:05:08.010 Robert Tseng: Have a good.
18 00:09:06.960 ⇒ 00:09:12.150 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, someone from tech systems is like messaging me.
19 00:09:12.857 ⇒ 00:09:16.910 Uttam Kumaran: But they’re actually open to doing something through Brain Forge. So like.
20 00:09:17.520 ⇒ 00:09:18.150 Robert Tseng: Cool.
21 00:09:21.930 ⇒ 00:09:23.140 Uttam Kumaran: Seeing what they’re saying.
22 00:09:24.006 ⇒ 00:09:26.503 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, so let’s let me get
23 00:09:28.360 ⇒ 00:09:33.770 Uttam Kumaran: Did you have something from your from your notes? Or I could just put everything into a note.
24 00:09:34.000 ⇒ 00:09:44.279 Robert Tseng: Oh, yeah, no. I just went back into our exec meeting notes. I copied some of the messages I sent over, and I mean, I can just. I can just share my screen as well.
25 00:09:50.330 ⇒ 00:09:57.100 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I I sort of sat on. It’s actually good that I didn’t answer. Then I sat on a lot of this and was like thinking about it a bit more.
26 00:09:59.070 ⇒ 00:10:01.130 Uttam Kumaran: So maybe I can get my
27 00:10:02.380 ⇒ 00:10:05.120 Uttam Kumaran: sort of thoughts as is. And I
28 00:10:05.240 ⇒ 00:10:07.480 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll probably start with like kind of
29 00:10:09.100 ⇒ 00:10:14.490 Uttam Kumaran: you know, in in making some of the decisions I’m trying to reflect a little bit on.
30 00:10:15.090 ⇒ 00:10:24.599 Uttam Kumaran: You know what I know, which is just like how I felt at past companies, and for both of for both Amber and Hannah, I think they’re really strong. I think.
31 00:10:25.239 ⇒ 00:10:35.670 Uttam Kumaran: I can kind of talk about both of them a little bit separately. So if I was to talk about Hannah I actually think my my like main
32 00:10:37.649 ⇒ 00:10:43.899 Uttam Kumaran: and we wanna maybe we should, we should pause this recording. So it doesn’t get into the the platform.
33 00:10:44.420 ⇒ 00:10:45.550 Robert Tseng: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
34 00:10:46.530 ⇒ 00:10:48.989 Uttam Kumaran: Probably my main
35 00:10:50.450 ⇒ 00:10:51.470 Robert Tseng: Oh!