Meeting Title: Javy-Project-Internal-Review Date: 2024-10-21 Meeting participants: Brian Pei, Nicolas Sucari, Payas Parab


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1 00:05:18.380 00:05:19.750 Payas Parab: Hey, Nico! How are you?

2 00:05:21.830 00:05:22.900 Payas Parab: Hey? Brian?

3 00:05:23.480 00:05:25.140 Nicolas Sucari: Anybody else. How are you.

4 00:05:25.300 00:05:26.819 Payas Parab: Good. How are you guys.

5 00:05:28.110 00:05:29.110 Nicolas Sucari: All good.

6 00:05:31.450 00:05:32.450 Nicolas Sucari: good.

7 00:05:37.310 00:05:43.779 Payas Parab: Just give me just like one just 30 seconds. Here I’m on the checkout page for booking a flight, and I want to just book it before the prices change.

8 00:05:43.780 00:05:45.410 Brian Pei: Oh, please go for it.

9 00:05:45.960 00:05:46.970 Payas Parab: Sorry.

10 00:05:48.750 00:05:50.250 Brian Pei: Vacation, season.

11 00:05:51.120 00:05:52.300 Payas Parab: Yeah, before.

12 00:05:52.300 00:05:54.370 Brian Pei: And get get their r and R in.

13 00:05:54.880 00:05:56.960 Payas Parab: Yeah, you’re going to Florida, Brian.

14 00:05:57.730 00:05:58.475 Brian Pei: Yeah,

15 00:06:00.460 00:06:01.270 Payas Parab: Where, exactly.

16 00:06:01.270 00:06:05.534 Brian Pei: My like family reunion, I guess, but my my parents and I

17 00:06:05.920 00:06:09.830 Brian Pei: purchased a small, tiny little condo in West Palm Beach.

18 00:06:09.830 00:06:11.740 Payas Parab: Oh, West Palm Beach. Okay. Very cool.

19 00:06:15.090 00:06:16.249 Nicolas Sucari: I’m going to.

20 00:06:16.500 00:06:21.819 Nicolas Sucari: but I think I’m arriving there, Brian, on November second, so I don’t.

21 00:06:22.850 00:06:24.049 Brian Pei: That’s the day.

22 00:06:24.050 00:06:24.370 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.

23 00:06:24.370 00:06:26.069 Brian Pei: Or the day before I get back.

24 00:06:26.880 00:06:33.200 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, actually, I’m going to New York to on the 10th of November. So maybe if you’re there.

25 00:06:33.200 00:06:33.770 Brian Pei: Cool

26 00:06:35.150 00:06:37.869 Brian Pei: where wait? Where? In New York, specifically.

27 00:06:38.730 00:06:39.839 Nicolas Sucari: In Manhattan.

28 00:06:41.150 00:06:43.241 Brian Pei: Just, or what? What borough.

29 00:06:46.330 00:06:48.249 Nicolas Sucari: I don’t know. Let me see.

30 00:06:48.910 00:06:51.519 Nicolas Sucari: Near Central Park. I’ll be around there.

31 00:06:52.159 00:06:52.799 Brian Pei: Okay.

32 00:06:54.120 00:06:56.589 Brian Pei: I mean, yeah, hit me up. We’ll see.

33 00:06:57.480 00:06:58.110 Nicolas Sucari: Yep.

34 00:07:00.060 00:07:00.660 Payas Parab: Next

35 00:07:01.237 00:07:03.122 Payas Parab: alright. The flight is booked.

36 00:07:05.380 00:07:06.609 Brian Pei: Nice. And where are you going.

37 00:07:06.912 00:07:32.000 Payas Parab: I’m going to Chicago. It’s actually it’s a work. It’s a it’s it’s a work trip. It’s kind of work trip. My, I along with kind of contracting with Pungo. I also me and my buddies. Back home started a a another consulting firm that does like government contracts government education, like boomer sectors, custom app development. And yeah, we, we have our annual meeting, which is also just like all of us hanging out because we’ve been friends for like.

38 00:07:32.000 00:07:32.660 Brian Pei: Okay. Yeah.

39 00:07:32.660 00:07:45.765 Payas Parab: But like we actually do have like annual planning, like, we try and plan figure out like, you know how it’s going, what we did. Well, what we didn’t do. We like review all the finances and decide everyone’s payouts and stuff.

40 00:07:46.070 00:07:46.660 Brian Pei: Gotcha.

41 00:07:46.660 00:07:51.590 Payas Parab: So it’s kinda like, it’s fun. I mean, I’m sure you guys have fun with what you guys do, too, right like.

42 00:07:52.560 00:07:54.023 Payas Parab: But it still work.

43 00:07:55.940 00:07:58.619 Brian Pei: A little bit of work, and then a lot of bit of a

44 00:07:58.950 00:07:59.596 Brian Pei: hanging out.

45 00:07:59.920 00:08:06.650 Payas Parab: Exactly exactly sweet. So I don’t know what you guys wanted to go over today. I know I still owe some items around

46 00:08:06.740 00:08:20.389 Payas Parab: kind of playing around with that stuff. I’ll be honest, I didn’t have a too much time to dive in, but that was I was gonna do that this midday today. I’m just like some of the like. The Jared asked around like the revenue metrics, and tying those all out.

47 00:08:21.630 00:08:22.265 Brian Pei: Yeah.

48 00:08:23.000 00:08:28.129 Brian Pei: that’s what like. The like. Discount validation is something

49 00:08:28.280 00:08:29.589 Brian Pei: that I’m

50 00:08:30.180 00:08:32.870 Brian Pei: ready to pair on whenever.

51 00:08:32.870 00:08:33.270 Payas Parab: Sure.

52 00:08:33.270 00:08:39.055 Brian Pei: Like in the in my time around that I was just configuring

53 00:08:39.640 00:08:46.150 Brian Pei: the data modeling schedule. So yeah, I turned that on on Friday it ran over the weekend.

54 00:08:46.230 00:08:55.269 Brian Pei: The data is updated. I just gotta make sure that it’s not the last thing I need to make sure is that it’s not

55 00:08:55.460 00:08:58.730 Brian Pei: crunching. Too many snowflake credits

56 00:09:00.380 00:09:01.420 Brian Pei: increase

57 00:09:01.600 00:09:04.759 Brian Pei: the snowflake budget. Yeah.

58 00:09:05.490 00:09:21.940 Payas Parab: Another thing as well, while I kind of get that stream started. I was wondering if we could start setting up Meta Base for them as well, like just kind of. I think it’s just like you set up the account, and maybe we can do that collaboratively right now and then. We connect it to the snowflake, and it shouldn’t be anything crazy, and we could probably set them up on like a free trial.

59 00:09:22.050 00:09:23.210 Payas Parab: Essentially.

60 00:09:23.940 00:09:36.960 Brian Pei: Yeah, I can make a meta based user, because I think all of our personal accounts have the duo verify. But for Dbt cloud we set up a snowflake user without the password protection stuff so that it doesn’t

61 00:09:38.390 00:09:39.420 Brian Pei: mess with anything.

62 00:09:39.420 00:09:40.190 Nicolas Sucari: Can we.

63 00:09:40.760 00:09:41.140 Payas Parab: Like, there’s

64 00:09:42.160 00:09:43.749 Payas Parab: email or something. Right? Yeah.

65 00:09:43.750 00:09:44.380 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.

66 00:09:44.840 00:09:50.799 Brian Pei: Yeah, with with snowflake accounts. You don’t need an email. Actually, I can. Just, I can just create a string for.

67 00:09:50.800 00:09:51.720 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, yeah.

68 00:09:52.210 00:09:54.189 Brian Pei: So I I would just do that

69 00:09:54.420 00:09:57.260 Brian Pei: for metabase for anything like metabase. In fact.

70 00:09:58.580 00:09:59.500 Payas Parab: Got it.

71 00:10:00.790 00:10:02.342 Nicolas Sucari: Hey? By us also.

72 00:10:02.890 00:10:12.809 Nicolas Sucari: From the last conversation with a man, I think we need to start working with getting access to north PIN so that we can bring the data in.

73 00:10:13.790 00:10:20.660 Nicolas Sucari: So I think we will need. I don’t know what we will need from them to start trying to look into

74 00:10:20.820 00:10:22.959 Nicolas Sucari: what kind of data we need to bring in.

75 00:10:23.400 00:10:30.290 Payas Parab: Yeah, should we just ping him now? He! He responds pretty well. We should just like see if we can get his login.

76 00:10:30.320 00:10:37.959 Payas Parab: or he can make us an account on North team. Is that what you guys need to be able to connect to the Api right? I’m guessing, or it’s some type of something like that.

77 00:10:38.460 00:10:41.609 Nicolas Sucari: I think. Yes, but maybe Brian can help us there. But

78 00:10:42.550 00:10:43.300 Nicolas Sucari: yeah.

79 00:10:45.190 00:10:48.535 Brian Pei: I also think so. I I’m not actually entirely sure.

80 00:10:48.840 00:10:56.700 Payas Parab: Yeah, why don’t we? Just you guys want to send that to him? It’s okay. I feel like, it’s so be like, Hey, in that chat that we have with him. Just him, and be like, Hey.

81 00:10:56.700 00:10:57.470 Nicolas Sucari: Sent him.

82 00:10:57.470 00:11:12.819 Payas Parab: Yeah, get that north beam access and then we can. Also, I will send a follow up being like. Also, we aligned. And we’re just like we’re gonna just do Meta base. Robert and I just the simplest, easiest, and you’ll have an analyst in the future. That’ll do. Sequel for you there. So

83 00:11:14.530 00:11:24.269 Payas Parab: yeah, we’ll we’ll we’ll send those 2 messages just like right after this call, or like right now and then. He can get the north beam. Brian can start working on the north beam and the

84 00:11:24.320 00:11:30.319 Payas Parab: and the Meta base setup. And then I can start doing. I still gotta do that. I’m a little backlogged on the the

85 00:11:30.640 00:11:34.259 Payas Parab: validation around the sales data and discounts data.

86 00:11:34.260 00:11:34.890 Nicolas Sucari: Okay?

87 00:11:35.505 00:11:43.110 Nicolas Sucari: Ideally, we need to. Yeah. Get your feedback from the from the dashboards and see if we can reach that gross margin.

88 00:11:43.140 00:11:48.169 Nicolas Sucari: Gross profit margin, right? So that that was like our main goal for a month, I think

89 00:11:48.660 00:11:49.650 Nicolas Sucari: the 1st one.

90 00:11:49.780 00:11:53.919 Nicolas Sucari: so that we can be accurate on that one. And yeah, then.

91 00:11:54.260 00:11:56.730 Nicolas Sucari: and start creating dashboards for anything else.

92 00:11:56.730 00:11:57.170 Payas Parab: Yep.

93 00:11:58.450 00:12:05.890 Nicolas Sucari: Also, maybe. Brian, we can just tell pay us about the 5 meeting we had last week.

94 00:12:06.830 00:12:10.530 Nicolas Sucari: We changed the plan from

95 00:12:10.670 00:12:14.460 Nicolas Sucari: standard to starters to reduce the costs.

96 00:12:15.208 00:12:18.699 Nicolas Sucari: And I think the estimation was around

97 00:12:18.840 00:12:23.619 Nicolas Sucari: 1,200 bucks a month. For that plan. Yeah.

98 00:12:23.740 00:12:28.476 Nicolas Sucari: yeah. But the the what we were getting was around 3 k, so we reduce it a lot.

99 00:12:30.090 00:12:34.970 Nicolas Sucari: But yeah, I mean, we are all. If if that if you think that’s gonna be like super

100 00:12:35.532 00:12:50.709 Nicolas Sucari: it like, it’s a high number for for a man and them we can also start looking into other alternatives. We have 2 different tools that would have mentioned me portable and polytonic. They are 2 different tools that we can start.

101 00:12:50.710 00:12:55.649 Payas Parab: We’d have to redo. We’d have to redo the builds. I mean, you have the data models, but you still have to like

102 00:12:56.300 00:13:09.379 Payas Parab: it’s it’s a pain in the ass. I think they’re just gonna start. They’re just they’re just cheap, like, like, I think it’s just like we even, we felt like they’re just kind of cheap and like, no, no, you run a business. You gotta be cheap. We get it. But like I I think they’re like, not

103 00:13:09.520 00:13:14.830 Payas Parab: super sold on over investing into any of this. But I think we just so. You said 1,200 a month.

104 00:13:15.370 00:13:16.820 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, something around.

105 00:13:16.820 00:13:19.400 Payas Parab: So like Meta Base will be like a couple 100.

106 00:13:19.600 00:13:20.469 Payas Parab: And then there’s.

107 00:13:20.470 00:13:20.940 Nicolas Sucari: Things. Okay.

108 00:13:20.940 00:13:23.840 Payas Parab: Costs on a monthly basis? Or do we have an estimate on that.

109 00:13:25.172 00:13:31.739 Nicolas Sucari: I don’t have an estimate on everything. But yeah, I think we can. We can get something and and yeah.

110 00:13:31.860 00:13:52.777 Nicolas Sucari: mention them, because I I don’t know exactly what’s the cost for metabase on Snowflake. But yeah, 5. We had that meeting last week with one of the guys we tried to reduce the usage that we were getting, and we deselected a lot of tables. It will depend the cost will depend on the amount of rows that we are getting every every day right

111 00:13:53.090 00:13:53.480 Payas Parab: And.

112 00:13:53.480 00:13:57.030 Nicolas Sucari: All of the updates that we’re getting there. But yeah, it was around

113 00:13:57.100 00:14:02.869 Nicolas Sucari: a hundred. Sorry, a thousand, a thousand 200. Something written about that.

114 00:14:03.430 00:14:06.820 Nicolas Sucari: If I’m not mistaken. Right, Brian, it was something like that.

115 00:14:09.360 00:14:11.850 Brian Pei: Yeah, 1,200 1,300.

116 00:14:12.390 00:14:13.100 Brian Pei: Yeah.

117 00:14:13.450 00:14:18.430 Payas Parab: So maybe we need to. So I also mentioned this to Mon, which I think we should do, which would be really good for them is like.

118 00:14:18.460 00:14:40.369 Payas Parab: I don’t know if it’s a notion, Doc, or Google, Doc, or something like that, where it’s just kind of like a like guide to your tech stack right like that. We’re kind of setting up for them all of their different tools, and like where things sit in like a really tldr way. I think maybe we have a section of that that’s just like ongoing costs of your data stack as well. So it’s just like a table tool monthly cost and like, why we pay it essentially.

119 00:14:42.035 00:14:47.190 Payas Parab: maybe that could be a good I don’t know if you guys have preference to that like Google docs or

120 00:14:49.420 00:15:01.371 Payas Parab: or in like notion, but maybe cause I think what we just should just like have also, as part of the deliverable right is just like a 1 pager of like. Here’s all the tools we’ve implemented and what they do. So you know, and I think, like

121 00:15:03.060 00:15:05.029 Payas Parab: we include that

122 00:15:06.290 00:15:16.916 Payas Parab: like the costing in there as well. So I’m gonna share that with you guys. Does that? Does that seem like a good plan? I can take the lead on that I know I meant I’m the one that brought it up to. I’m on, so I’m happy to take the lead on that. But

123 00:15:17.220 00:15:18.549 Payas Parab: Let me see.

124 00:15:25.610 00:15:26.820 Payas Parab: and then.

125 00:15:27.810 00:15:35.200 Nicolas Sucari: We? We haven’t been billed yet for 5. Tran we’re gonna be billed, I think the 1st days of November. But.

126 00:15:35.200 00:15:35.570 Payas Parab: Okay.

127 00:15:35.570 00:15:43.360 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, I mean, we have, like an estimation. We’re trying to be accurate on that one. That’s why we had that meeting last week with these these guys.

128 00:15:43.380 00:15:46.049 Nicolas Sucari: But yeah, it was something around

129 00:15:46.450 00:15:47.600 Nicolas Sucari: one K and

130 00:15:47.710 00:15:51.290 Nicolas Sucari: 1,300 something around that. Yeah, we’re trying to

131 00:15:51.990 00:15:54.850 Nicolas Sucari: to lower that down. But it depends on the amount of data.

132 00:15:55.860 00:15:56.560 Payas Parab: Yep.

133 00:15:57.200 00:16:00.889 Nicolas Sucari: And obviously, if we are gonna be bringing more

134 00:16:01.260 00:16:05.140 Nicolas Sucari: data sources in, obviously that cost may may increase.

135 00:16:08.160 00:16:10.519 Payas Parab: We can also add the amplitude.

136 00:16:11.240 00:16:13.550 Payas Parab: Okay, yeah, I just shared a doc with you guys.

137 00:16:14.066 00:16:18.959 Payas Parab: I’m adding the 5 tran just right now estimated 1,200 a month.

138 00:16:19.707 00:16:26.389 Payas Parab: I’ll leave a comment. If you guys can fill out like what exactly it does and why we need. There’s also Dbt. Has its own cost right.

139 00:16:28.716 00:16:32.290 Brian Pei: Dbt cloud is free for one user.

140 00:16:33.080 00:16:34.409 Payas Parab: Free for one user. Okay.

141 00:16:34.410 00:16:36.470 Brian Pei: Yeah. So right now, nothing.

142 00:16:36.893 00:16:42.469 Brian Pei: If they build up a data team, it’ll be, I think it’s a hundred dollars per extra user after the 1st one.

143 00:16:42.630 00:16:43.410 Payas Parab: Got it.

144 00:16:43.410 00:16:45.860 Brian Pei: For Dbt. Cloud we can put free, which is good.

145 00:16:45.860 00:16:51.809 Payas Parab: Yeah, let me write current monthly costs. And then let me add another column. That’s like potential ongoing costs. Just so again.

146 00:16:54.970 00:16:57.050 Payas Parab: You said, how much was it per user.

147 00:16:57.988 00:17:00.150 Brian Pei: I’m gonna triple check. But I think

148 00:17:00.480 00:17:01.700 Brian Pei: a hundred

149 00:17:07.950 00:17:12.260 Brian Pei: yeah, a hundred dollars per developer seat per month. After the first.st

150 00:17:12.790 00:17:13.480 Nicolas Sucari: 8.

151 00:17:16.170 00:17:17.329 Payas Parab: Got it. Okay?

152 00:17:17.680 00:17:22.270 Payas Parab: Alright, yeah. So I think we’ll have this like little section that’s like the ongoing data costs. And like.

153 00:17:22.579 00:17:27.100 Payas Parab: we’ll have a section that’s like what tools there are and like what they each do.

154 00:17:27.910 00:17:29.120 Payas Parab: Does that make sense?

155 00:17:29.440 00:17:33.829 Payas Parab: I I can share my screen, too. Sorry. I’m just like typing here while talking without.

156 00:17:33.830 00:17:34.970 Brian Pei: Okay, that makes sense.

157 00:17:35.150 00:17:37.669 Payas Parab: Yeah, I I just shared the doc with you. So

158 00:17:39.130 00:17:42.210 Payas Parab: But yeah, I’m thinking it’ll just be something like that.

159 00:17:42.420 00:17:46.350 Payas Parab: And then there’ll be a table here, and I really want to make this like a Tldr

160 00:17:46.740 00:17:47.475 Payas Parab: version.

161 00:17:48.210 00:17:49.020 Brian Pei: Yeah, for sure.

162 00:17:49.290 00:17:51.100 Payas Parab: Yeah.

163 00:17:51.190 00:17:55.560 Payas Parab: I’ll send the link in the chat. Is it popping up in like the weird vertical format.

164 00:17:56.240 00:17:56.590 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.

165 00:17:56.940 00:17:57.940 Payas Parab: Sorry. Yeah, I have my.

166 00:17:57.940 00:17:59.020 Nicolas Sucari: That’s fine! That’s fine!

167 00:17:59.020 00:17:59.730 Payas Parab: Vertical screen. Okay.

168 00:17:59.730 00:18:00.130 Nicolas Sucari: And

169 00:18:00.530 00:18:15.579 Payas Parab: You guys get the gist we don’t need to like go through doing all this right now. But I think that’s what we’ll just do and that can be like an interim deliverable as well to him on. So then he’s just like, okay, cool, like, we’re working on this. We’re getting them like some tldr and all these tools, and like what they do. So then everyone feels.

170 00:18:15.580 00:18:16.820 Nicolas Sucari: We we have.

171 00:18:17.020 00:18:22.670 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, we already have something for that. I have it in notion. But yeah, we can create something

172 00:18:23.110 00:18:33.019 Nicolas Sucari: with more information and share with them, because they have, like a like a yeah summary page for each of the tools, explaining what the tool is and how to

173 00:18:33.430 00:18:34.399 Nicolas Sucari: how those works.

174 00:18:34.400 00:18:35.860 Payas Parab: Oh, you do. Okay, that’s great.

175 00:18:35.860 00:18:40.950 Nicolas Sucari: But nothing but nothing custom to any client. It’s just like this tool and what it is, and explain.

176 00:18:40.950 00:18:47.280 Payas Parab: Sure. Yeah, we can just copy and paste from there. I just wanna so they know all the tools we’re implementing for them. And then, like what they do.

177 00:18:47.280 00:18:48.490 Nicolas Sucari: It’s interesting.

178 00:18:48.750 00:18:52.782 Payas Parab: Yeah, these guys don’t care about the details. So like a good Tldr version.

179 00:18:53.410 00:18:53.980 Payas Parab: I think.

180 00:18:53.980 00:18:56.760 Nicolas Sucari: I’ll send. I’ll send it to you so that you can take a look.

181 00:18:56.760 00:18:57.520 Payas Parab: Sweet.

182 00:18:58.916 00:19:00.589 Payas Parab: Okay, excellent!

183 00:19:01.230 00:19:03.770 Payas Parab: Alright! Is that everything, gents? For now.

184 00:19:04.950 00:19:07.750 Nicolas Sucari: I think. Yes, Brian, do you have anything else.

185 00:19:08.590 00:19:09.790 Brian Pei: That’s all I had as well.

186 00:19:10.600 00:19:22.820 Nicolas Sucari: Cool. So I’m I’m gonna message a man and get the access for north PIN so that we can start with that one. And then. We need to create that account for Meta base. Right?

187 00:19:25.390 00:19:26.906 Brian Pei: Oh, yeah, you can ping

188 00:19:27.390 00:19:33.689 Brian Pei: for the Meta base setup in our internal channel. I’ll make a user for it.

189 00:19:33.690 00:19:34.140 Payas Parab: Okay.

190 00:19:34.140 00:19:34.940 Brian Pei: Tested.

191 00:19:35.850 00:19:36.540 Brian Pei: cool.

192 00:19:37.060 00:19:38.120 Brian Pei: excellent.

193 00:19:39.550 00:19:40.090 Payas Parab: Sorry guys.

194 00:19:40.090 00:19:40.610 Nicolas Sucari: Nice.

195 00:19:40.610 00:19:42.110 Payas Parab: Thank you. All right.

196 00:19:42.110 00:19:42.650 Brian Pei: Thanks. Everyone.

197 00:19:42.650 00:19:43.280 Nicolas Sucari: Bye, mate.