Meeting Title: Eden Project Management Check-in Date: 2025-09-10 Meeting participants: Zoran Selinger, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:00:17.890 ⇒ 00:00:20.309 Zoran Selinger: Hey, man. How are you?
2 00:00:21.110 ⇒ 00:00:22.129 Uttam Kumaran: How’s everything?
3 00:00:23.020 ⇒ 00:00:24.760 Zoran Selinger: Yeah, good, good.
4 00:00:25.340 ⇒ 00:00:30.060 Zoran Selinger: Running around a little bit today, or this week in general, but…
5 00:00:30.290 ⇒ 00:00:30.970 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, that’s fantastic.
6 00:00:30.970 ⇒ 00:00:33.860 Zoran Selinger: The son’s starting school, so,
7 00:00:33.860 ⇒ 00:00:34.269 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, no.
8 00:00:34.270 ⇒ 00:00:43.010 Zoran Selinger: meetings with the teacher, and, you know, getting all… everything ready, and, you know, equipment, and all that stuff. So, yeah, a little bit of a.
9 00:00:43.010 ⇒ 00:00:46.860 Uttam Kumaran: What is he, how old is he? What is he, interested in these days?
10 00:00:47.490 ⇒ 00:00:52.469 Zoran Selinger: Yeah, I mean, no, he’s, he’s just about to turn 7.
11 00:00:52.690 ⇒ 00:00:53.710 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, wow.
12 00:00:53.710 ⇒ 00:00:54.530 Zoran Selinger: Yeah, yeah.
13 00:00:55.530 ⇒ 00:01:10.239 Zoran Selinger: Just excited to start. He’s ready, not everyone in their class kind of knows how to read, or he does know already, so…
14 00:01:10.240 ⇒ 00:01:10.940 Uttam Kumaran: Nice.
15 00:01:10.940 ⇒ 00:01:16.019 Zoran Selinger: I’m just excited to get to something that’s… that’s interesting.
16 00:01:16.020 ⇒ 00:01:18.009 Uttam Kumaran: Haha, that’s great, that’s great.
17 00:01:18.400 ⇒ 00:01:18.860 Zoran Selinger: Yeah.
18 00:01:18.860 ⇒ 00:01:19.840 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, wonderful.
19 00:01:21.230 ⇒ 00:01:28.050 Zoran Selinger: So just… My first child in school, so kind of figuring… figuring it out.
20 00:01:28.520 ⇒ 00:01:40.140 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, no, that’s so exciting. My, my girlfriend is, she was a teacher, she’s a behavioral therapist now, so she works with kids all day. But, very exhausting.
21 00:01:40.600 ⇒ 00:01:40.920 Uttam Kumaran: fun.
22 00:01:40.950 ⇒ 00:01:41.780 Zoran Selinger: That part.
23 00:01:41.780 ⇒ 00:01:44.270 Uttam Kumaran: Mine are all the kids.
24 00:01:44.270 ⇒ 00:01:47.719 Zoran Selinger: Yeah, of course, of course.
25 00:01:47.720 ⇒ 00:01:52.349 Uttam Kumaran: Science are also exhausting, different… different type of exhausting, but…
26 00:01:52.960 ⇒ 00:02:02.349 Zoran Selinger: Yeah, I mean, I think I’ve… I’ve seen all types of clients. Very hands-off, very hands-on, micromanagers.
27 00:02:02.350 ⇒ 00:02:03.150 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah.
28 00:02:03.150 ⇒ 00:02:05.560 Zoran Selinger: Bipolar as well, so…
29 00:02:05.860 ⇒ 00:02:06.499 Uttam Kumaran: No, I mean, look.
30 00:02:06.500 ⇒ 00:02:09.860 Zoran Selinger: Very hands-off, the other week, he’s very hands-on, and all that.
31 00:02:09.860 ⇒ 00:02:22.320 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. I don’t… I don’t blame them, like, I… I understand why, if you were running a company, or… you would feel that way, and do those things, but… I don’t know, like, also…
32 00:02:22.860 ⇒ 00:02:28.710 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I don’t… I don’t know. There’s some… I feel that there are some right ways of doing this. For us, we have to roll with all the punches, right? No matter what.
33 00:02:28.710 ⇒ 00:02:29.260 Zoran Selinger: Yeah.
34 00:02:29.260 ⇒ 00:02:44.749 Uttam Kumaran: we have to roll. So, some people, I think… for me, I mean, you’ve been doing client work for a long time, so it’s easy for us. For some new people, I think they’re like, you gotta get punched in the face once or twice, and they’re like, wake up, you know, so…
35 00:02:44.750 ⇒ 00:02:47.569 Zoran Selinger: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
36 00:02:47.930 ⇒ 00:02:56.529 Uttam Kumaran: How is, how is stuff going with, the current stuff you’re working on? I’ve been following a little bit loosely, but yeah, tell me.
37 00:02:57.620 ⇒ 00:03:05.520 Zoran Selinger: last week and a half or so was actually frustrating. I feel like we’re standing still. Yes.
38 00:03:05.520 ⇒ 00:03:20.470 Zoran Selinger: So, yeah, I don’t… only got a few, few accounts to connect yesterday, two more today, so I’m gonna complete that, for… for Ellie. But I’m kinda… I’m excited to see what’s next with, like, this ad and stuff.
39 00:03:20.470 ⇒ 00:03:28.420 Zoran Selinger: Sure. Sounds really interesting, and you might have a third one as well, if I understood correctly.
40 00:03:28.990 ⇒ 00:03:35.480 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so Eden is the first one. I think Robert has really enjoyed working with you, I agree, like, Ellie.
41 00:03:35.630 ⇒ 00:03:38.759 Uttam Kumaran: Like, as you can tell, like, someone’s out or something, like.
42 00:03:39.000 ⇒ 00:03:54.899 Uttam Kumaran: on our side, like, I honestly, I don’t blame… yeah, I rarely blame the client. I always am like, what could we have done better? I think we’re getting better, like, how do we keep up the project management momentum, and how do we continue to push even when clients are slow, or at least, like.
43 00:03:54.940 ⇒ 00:04:12.919 Uttam Kumaran: make it obvious, because the risk is that they say, we were slow, and we’re like, yo, we’ve been blocked, you know? So I think we’re gonna get a little bit better there. We’re bringing on another project manager, and some stuff is gonna get easier. And then, yes, Eden is honestly the opposite. Like, there is too much work. I think we are finding ways
44 00:04:12.920 ⇒ 00:04:18.799 Uttam Kumaran: To actually, like, try to limit, what we take on and, and, and,
45 00:04:18.899 ⇒ 00:04:31.580 Uttam Kumaran: like, just manage it with our project management team overall. But I… I’m happy to add you there. I think I’ll let you work with, and let me see, actually, if,
46 00:04:31.780 ⇒ 00:04:35.130 Uttam Kumaran: If Amber is actually free to join, I should have added her here.
47 00:04:37.270 ⇒ 00:04:43.019 Uttam Kumaran: But yeah, maybe I’ll let you connect with her, but maybe I’ll just give you the brief. So, Eden is a,
48 00:04:43.140 ⇒ 00:04:59.660 Uttam Kumaran: you familiar with, like, Ozempic or, like, any of these GLP-1 sort of medications that are now on the market right now? They are, like, they’re like an online pharmacist for that, so they’re a pretty big company here. There’s a lot of similar companies, here in the States that are growing pretty fast.
49 00:04:59.660 ⇒ 00:05:10.380 Uttam Kumaran: in that sort of market. So they have several pharmacies, and a huge online, like, sort of intake process by which they bring on, people to, take on.
50 00:05:10.720 ⇒ 00:05:17.130 Uttam Kumaran: To… who want to get prescribed for several different drugs. So we are kind of their whole data team.
51 00:05:17.130 ⇒ 00:05:36.949 Uttam Kumaran: So we ingest data into BigQuery, we manage it there, we then also visualized it all in Tableau. We are also doing a lot on the, advertising side with them, you know, which is, of course, like, where sort of your world comes in. We’re doing a lot of, like, Pixel and, like, sending events from the
52 00:05:36.950 ⇒ 00:05:44.400 Uttam Kumaran: from… BigQuery into, like, retargeting and stuff like that, so sort of like your world.
53 00:05:44.640 ⇒ 00:05:53.400 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll let Amber give the specifics. She has everything sort of cricketed out in terms of, like, what work is needed. But would love to sort of, like.
54 00:05:53.480 ⇒ 00:06:17.579 Uttam Kumaran: for you to take a look at that with her, and then, also just want to get a sense of, like, your availability. Like, do you think you can handle… like, it’s probably going to be at least another, like, 10 hours of work a week, maybe? So just wanted to get a sense of, like, your availability for that. I mean, you could also take a look at the work and see whether that’s… that’s correct, if it needs to be more or less, but, that’s generally the scope. I don’t think it’s…
55 00:06:17.580 ⇒ 00:06:22.080 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t think anything you’ll see are, like, too far out of your world. I actually think…
56 00:06:22.080 ⇒ 00:06:24.439 Uttam Kumaran: You’ll have an interesting time, because we’re…
57 00:06:24.440 ⇒ 00:06:28.030 Uttam Kumaran: Doing a lot more beyond just, like,
58 00:06:28.830 ⇒ 00:06:32.859 Uttam Kumaran: just, the kind of the scope for Ellie, so… and there’s a couple others.
59 00:06:32.860 ⇒ 00:06:33.300 Zoran Selinger: members there.
60 00:06:33.300 ⇒ 00:06:34.120 Uttam Kumaran: as well.
61 00:06:35.020 ⇒ 00:06:46.890 Zoran Selinger: Yeah. Okay, cool. Sounds… I mean, sounds interesting. And yes, I do have… I do have capacity. I was… that… part of my frustration for… over the last week or so is that, I…
62 00:06:46.890 ⇒ 00:06:47.240 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
63 00:06:47.240 ⇒ 00:06:53.009 Zoran Selinger: I wasn’t… basically, I wasn’t working on anything, very few, few, few hours.
64 00:06:53.010 ⇒ 00:06:57.840 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I want to get my hands dirty a little bit more, yeah.
65 00:06:58.000 ⇒ 00:07:13.389 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think this will be good, and then we have, we have, one or two more clients that are potentially starting soon, so I think start on this, and then, like, yeah, I mean, I’m… you’re top of mind now for me to consider how I can bring you on to… to more stuff.
66 00:07:13.400 ⇒ 00:07:29.270 Uttam Kumaran: So, how about I’m… I’ll send a note, and I’ll connect you with Amber. She has everything… Eden is fairly organized, and it’s one of our… we’ve… we’ve been, working with them for quite a while. They’re one of our bigger clients. So, I think, yeah, just…
67 00:07:29.430 ⇒ 00:07:37.749 Uttam Kumaran: talk chat with her, and then send me a ping or whatever, if you kind of get a… get the gist of what’s going on.
68 00:07:38.710 ⇒ 00:07:41.099 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, let me know, how else can I be helpful?
69 00:07:41.280 ⇒ 00:07:49.240 Zoran Selinger: Okay, excellent. Excellent, let’s do that. So, yeah, okay, connect me with Amber, and I’ll take it from there.
70 00:07:49.270 ⇒ 00:07:50.200 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, perfect.
71 00:07:50.570 ⇒ 00:07:51.220 Zoran Selinger: Excellent.
72 00:07:52.420 ⇒ 00:07:53.010 Zoran Selinger: Thank you.
73 00:07:53.010 ⇒ 00:07:55.129 Uttam Kumaran: Thank you so much. Yeah, stop me if you need anything.
74 00:07:55.130 ⇒ 00:07:56.610 Zoran Selinger: Yeah, thanks. Bye-bye.
75 00:07:56.610 ⇒ 00:07:57.750 Uttam Kumaran: Bye.