Meeting Title: Brainforge Marketing and Content Retro Date: 2025-09-19 Meeting participants: Rico Rejoso, Ryan Brosas, Raymund Verzosa, Hannah Wang
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1 00:00:18.700 ⇒ 00:00:19.400 Rico Rejoso: Yep.
2 00:00:19.640 ⇒ 00:00:23.820 Rico Rejoso: I don’t know what happened. Guess I’m not the host for this meeting.
3 00:00:26.680 ⇒ 00:00:28.730 Hannah Wang: Weird. Yeah, okay.
4 00:00:28.730 ⇒ 00:00:31.830 Rico Rejoso: I’ll edit that moving forward. Sorry, guys.
5 00:00:32.200 ⇒ 00:00:33.269 Hannah Wang: It’s okay.
6 00:00:33.940 ⇒ 00:00:40.490 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, go ahead, Hannah. Where were we, I think I was discussing your, feats for the week, right?
7 00:00:42.090 ⇒ 00:00:46.139 Hannah Wang: I think you were saying… What went well for you?
8 00:00:47.240 ⇒ 00:00:47.810 Rico Rejoso: Oh…
9 00:00:48.370 ⇒ 00:00:52.980 Hannah Wang: And then… I guess moving on to needs improvement.
10 00:00:53.910 ⇒ 00:00:54.900 Rico Rejoso: Yeah,
11 00:00:57.670 ⇒ 00:01:11.540 Rico Rejoso: Damn, I forgot. Well, yeah, as I was, saying a while ago, yeah, great job for the marketing team with 81% completion and content with 61%, although, I think it will be higher later on as you guys
12 00:01:11.540 ⇒ 00:01:21.330 Rico Rejoso: close some of the projects or, task tickets that you are… you guys are working on. Most of them, or all of them, are due today, so hopefully we can close all of the tickets. If not.
13 00:01:21.430 ⇒ 00:01:33.930 Rico Rejoso: discuss or explain why it hasn’t been finished. As mentioned by Justine a while ago, we’re going or transitioning into a new process, for the PM, and also managing you guys, and…
14 00:01:33.930 ⇒ 00:01:43.970 Rico Rejoso: It’ll be glad if we can have that implemented. I think it’s, you know, a win for us to be able to manage correctly some of the tickets that we’re working on, especially for marketing and sales.
15 00:01:44.090 ⇒ 00:01:51.009 Rico Rejoso: since you guys are fast-paced, and there’s a lot of tickets coming in your way as well. So I think,
16 00:01:51.340 ⇒ 00:02:00.649 Rico Rejoso: that’s what went well for me, overviewing everything that you guys have been doing on the marketing and content side. Moving forward to what needs improvement.
17 00:02:01.690 ⇒ 00:02:08.009 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, a great feedback on this one with, I mean, from Hannah, on Ryan’s note. Maybe we can start off with Ryan.
18 00:02:08.430 ⇒ 00:02:09.199 Rico Rejoso: this suck.
19 00:02:12.690 ⇒ 00:02:15.740 Ryan Brosas: so, yeah.
20 00:02:16.000 ⇒ 00:02:32.160 Ryan Brosas: So, yeah, for the… well, I think, for the first, we are… already have, like, a good presence on… on UTAM, but I need to, like, apply those, those,
21 00:02:32.420 ⇒ 00:02:38.260 Ryan Brosas: those, well, those strategies to Robert’s account also, because…
22 00:02:38.490 ⇒ 00:02:45.830 Ryan Brosas: well, I need to… well, we need to, because, this is… this too is our mains, like.
23 00:02:46.000 ⇒ 00:02:48.279 Ryan Brosas: our landing page on LinkedIn.
24 00:02:48.290 ⇒ 00:03:04.930 Ryan Brosas: So, we need to apply consistency on LinkedIn content, we need to, you know, show more of Robert. I think that is much more of the algorithm right now, is more of, like, personal brand, personal growth, and that is something I want to, like.
25 00:03:04.930 ⇒ 00:03:15.900 Ryan Brosas: apply on Robert. So I will just, like, keep asking for his, like, like, experience of, like, how he transitioned on to
26 00:03:15.960 ⇒ 00:03:24.929 Ryan Brosas: being, from an employee to being, a CEO or something. Yeah, I think I will be pushing that,
27 00:03:25.140 ⇒ 00:03:31.210 Ryan Brosas: more and more for both of them, also, and yeah. So for,
28 00:03:31.850 ⇒ 00:03:37.790 Ryan Brosas: Image generation, yeah, I… yeah, that is a good question.
29 00:03:37.900 ⇒ 00:03:55.360 Ryan Brosas: But yeah, I think we really need to apply that, because it’s just… even it’s just a, you know, an experimentation, it’s still, like, we tried of, like, applying, some of that. As I’m seeing a lot of,
30 00:03:55.510 ⇒ 00:04:02.460 Ryan Brosas: like, traction on, like, Instagram, it is, like, a good way to also, like.
31 00:04:02.670 ⇒ 00:04:12.089 Ryan Brosas: embrace that also, because we are a AI company, and we want to, incorporate, like, image generation on our, like.
32 00:04:12.290 ⇒ 00:04:19.110 Ryan Brosas: Content, to make, like, a visual storytelling or any that would spark attention.
33 00:04:19.839 ⇒ 00:04:23.830 Ryan Brosas: I think that is, good. That’s what I’m thinking.
34 00:04:23.960 ⇒ 00:04:29.629 Ryan Brosas: But, yeah, I’m really open on any feedback, but we… I’m still, like,
35 00:04:29.780 ⇒ 00:04:45.670 Ryan Brosas: right now, I’m learning on how we could do that, and I will, like, send, like, a whole carousel, then I can explain the whole process, how I did it, so we can, any of us on the, you know, on marketing team can replicate that.
36 00:04:45.890 ⇒ 00:04:50.350 Ryan Brosas: So, next would be time between content and sales.
37 00:04:50.540 ⇒ 00:04:54.290 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, this is kind of, like, huh.
38 00:04:54.580 ⇒ 00:05:08.500 Ryan Brosas: I like… I love both, content. I love to, like, collaborate with, with a video and writing content, and I think that’s, like, a…
39 00:05:08.760 ⇒ 00:05:13.019 Ryan Brosas: issues sometimes, because sometimes I need, there’s, like, some…
40 00:05:13.120 ⇒ 00:05:30.990 Ryan Brosas: some of the tasks, like, I got… I just got pinged and, like, researching what to do on that, or a certain campaign that needs to be prioritized, and there’s, like, VG stuff that we’re, we’re running at, running on, so…
41 00:05:31.070 ⇒ 00:05:45.219 Ryan Brosas: that’s kind of, like, my… my… my struggle right now, so I… what I’m… what I was doing at this moment is just, doing it both, but it… I think it won’t hold on in a longer, like.
42 00:05:45.530 ⇒ 00:05:56.290 Ryan Brosas: in a longer, what do you call this, session or, pacing. But, yeah, any suggestion, of, like.
43 00:05:56.990 ⇒ 00:06:15.959 Ryan Brosas: what I can do for both, or how I can, like, divide the both of them, because sometimes I work, like, I’m working on both of them, like, I’m working on sales, like, go-to-market, then while I’m doing that, I’m collaborating with… with Ray.
44 00:06:16.950 ⇒ 00:06:18.600 Rico Rejoso: Okay, yeah,
45 00:06:19.270 ⇒ 00:06:25.559 Rico Rejoso: I think that’s one thing as well, a good thing that you’re exploring, and, you know, this floss as well. Maybe, Hannah, you have feedback on this one?
46 00:06:26.930 ⇒ 00:06:32.269 Hannah Wang: I’m just wondering, like, what you can hand off to Ray. Like, what…
47 00:06:32.610 ⇒ 00:06:39.589 Hannah Wang: What video stuff are you doing, and is it possible to have Ray take over so that you don’t have to do it?
48 00:06:41.030 ⇒ 00:06:46.650 Ryan Brosas: the, for example, like…
49 00:06:47.320 ⇒ 00:07:02.509 Ryan Brosas: for example, the propyl one, so, I’m collaborating with him, what would be the best, like, researching what would be the best, like, example for the hook is, so then, you know, while doing some stuff.
50 00:07:02.560 ⇒ 00:07:10.509 Ryan Brosas: And, yeah, I think, well, I’m enjoying most of that, because, it’s still, like, connected to content.
51 00:07:10.610 ⇒ 00:07:18.419 Ryan Brosas: And, yeah, I think, it’s possible that it’s… we can… well, it’s already, doing, we already, like.
52 00:07:18.960 ⇒ 00:07:23.790 Ryan Brosas: Like… What do you call this? Nail that down, but…
53 00:07:23.950 ⇒ 00:07:33.580 Ryan Brosas: Sometimes that, he… we are collaborating on other stuff, like what would be the best short, or what would be the best, what do you call this?
54 00:07:33.680 ⇒ 00:07:43.280 Ryan Brosas: content for shorts. So sometimes that is kind of dividing me on, like, spending more on, like, reading transcript of.
55 00:07:43.710 ⇒ 00:07:50.410 Ryan Brosas: content, and what would be the… because, I think Gray doesn’t have, like.
56 00:07:51.220 ⇒ 00:07:56.939 Ryan Brosas: context of, like, what we do or something? I’m not sure. You can correct me, Ray, if…
57 00:07:57.050 ⇒ 00:08:03.810 Raymund Verzosa: If, I’m… I’m wrong. Oh, sometimes I just, I just don’t get some of the AI stuff, but…
58 00:08:03.810 ⇒ 00:08:12.029 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, that’s something that he needs to be, like, to have, like, context of. That’s why I’m collaborating with him closely.
59 00:08:12.290 ⇒ 00:08:12.940 Ryan Brosas: Yeah.
60 00:08:12.940 ⇒ 00:08:14.739 Hannah Wang: I get that, but…
61 00:08:15.040 ⇒ 00:08:27.569 Hannah Wang: I… I feel like as you continue to work here, Ray, like, it’ll become easy… er… obviously, I don’t understand everything, too, and I use AI a lot to help me understand, like, all the tools, and…
62 00:08:27.570 ⇒ 00:08:28.240 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah.
63 00:08:28.240 ⇒ 00:08:34.329 Hannah Wang: stuff for data and AI, so I think just over time, naturally, you will start to kind of
64 00:08:34.440 ⇒ 00:08:36.049 Hannah Wang: pick up on
65 00:08:36.179 ⇒ 00:08:42.760 Hannah Wang: what we do and the services that we offer, because I… it’s, like, it’s the same set of
66 00:08:42.830 ⇒ 00:08:48.199 Hannah Wang: services and stuff, so maybe moving forward, like, Ryan, you can kind of
67 00:08:48.200 ⇒ 00:09:04.250 Hannah Wang: teach Ray what you think, instead of… like, I don’t know what your current process looks like, but instead of, like, doing it for Ray and providing, like, oh, this is the timestamp that you should clip it, maybe have Ray try, and kind of, like, onboard him onto.
68 00:09:04.250 ⇒ 00:09:05.040 Raymund Verzosa: Oh, yeah.
69 00:09:05.040 ⇒ 00:09:07.550 Hannah Wang: and train him. Yeah, is that what you’re doing?
70 00:09:07.550 ⇒ 00:09:08.980 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah, I just…
71 00:09:08.980 ⇒ 00:09:09.530 Hannah Wang: Okay, cool.
72 00:09:09.530 ⇒ 00:09:12.170 Raymund Verzosa: Here, now and then, and stuff, yeah.
73 00:09:12.170 ⇒ 00:09:20.009 Hannah Wang: Okay, yeah, so just keep doing that. I think that’s a good idea, or tactic, and then I think eventually, Ray, you’ll start to, like.
74 00:09:20.860 ⇒ 00:09:24.539 Hannah Wang: grow that muscle. So yeah, just keep doing that. That’s good.
75 00:09:24.540 ⇒ 00:09:27.980 Rico Rejoso: Definitely. Yeah, and I think one,
76 00:09:28.320 ⇒ 00:09:46.190 Rico Rejoso: what Hannah was, like, referring to what the process looks like for, for Ryan and Ray, like, from getting the ideas, getting the requirement, drafting it, posting it for review, something, and want to, you know, dissect what part are you currently focused on when it comes to that process, Ryan, and…
77 00:09:46.460 ⇒ 00:09:47.689 Rico Rejoso: At the same time, if…
78 00:09:48.080 ⇒ 00:09:57.409 Rico Rejoso: For the issue that you are… you guys are experiencing, when it comes to, like, brainstorming, the content that you are working on, maybe it’s,
79 00:09:57.440 ⇒ 00:10:07.739 Rico Rejoso: good to also post it every now and then on Slack. So, aside from them getting the updates of your work, and the tickets that you’re working on, or videos that you’ve been editing.
80 00:10:07.740 ⇒ 00:10:18.990 Rico Rejoso: you can also gain feedback from different people, from Jake’s perspective, with Tom and Robert as well. I think that’s a good point, since Jake has been collaborating with all of you guys ever since he got onboarded, right?
81 00:10:19.720 ⇒ 00:10:20.480 Ryan Brosas: Yeah.
82 00:10:21.320 ⇒ 00:10:26.470 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, I need to have that discussion on Slack channels. I mean, I know, I mean, I know it’s kind of like…
83 00:10:26.780 ⇒ 00:10:45.980 Rico Rejoso: I mean, for me, it’s before I post anything on Slack, it’s kind of like, I have to think about if this is something that I should be posting on everything. But again, this is a company where failure is embraced, right? Maybe if we try to correct some of the stuff there, and then we can get to that spot where Ray would be comfortable,
84 00:10:46.150 ⇒ 00:10:51.229 Rico Rejoso: Deciding on his own about the project or videos that he’s editing on. What do you think?
85 00:10:52.140 ⇒ 00:10:57.560 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, I think that’s a really good process, because, yeah, I believe that
86 00:10:57.700 ⇒ 00:11:05.020 Ryan Brosas: Well, it’s a continuous rate duration, and, like, a guidance would be… Good for that.
87 00:11:05.040 ⇒ 00:11:14.650 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, I would, be open to do that more, and also, like, hand over most of the stuff that I’m doing on
88 00:11:14.650 ⇒ 00:11:29.059 Ryan Brosas: YouTube, like, writing, like, hand over the co-writer for writing, a description and, like, all the stuff that is… I’m currently doing on YouTube and shorts. Yeah, I’m really open to do that as well.
89 00:11:29.350 ⇒ 00:11:43.370 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, I mean, Ray’s good, Ray’s great when it comes to this work, so maybe he could… I mean, I know for a fact that he can pick up whatever it is that he needs from you right away once you try to hand up some of this stuff for your convenience as well, you know?
90 00:11:43.840 ⇒ 00:11:57.639 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, so that’s my problem. So, yeah, I need to work on that also, like, I need to stop hogging all of the stuff, and yeah, I’m really guilty on that.
91 00:11:58.300 ⇒ 00:11:59.149 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, actually…
92 00:11:59.150 ⇒ 00:12:00.320 Hannah Wang: That’s okay.
93 00:12:00.320 ⇒ 00:12:01.889 Rico Rejoso: I mean, go ahead. Yeah, I mean…
94 00:12:01.890 ⇒ 00:12:09.159 Hannah Wang: Oh, sorry, I was just gonna say, like, that’s okay, I mean, you’re used to doing all the content stuff yourself, and it’s, like, hard to…
95 00:12:09.260 ⇒ 00:12:22.389 Hannah Wang: I guess, knowledge transfer, everything, like, I understand, so… yeah, because in the beginning, it’s hard, like, helping someone understand it. It might be difficult, because you have to, like, train them, but then eventually, like.
96 00:12:22.870 ⇒ 00:12:27.990 Hannah Wang: Hopefully they’ll get to a point where they can do it just as good as you, and then…
97 00:12:28.130 ⇒ 00:12:31.699 Hannah Wang: It’s a partnership at that point, it’s not like you…
98 00:12:31.950 ⇒ 00:12:35.179 Hannah Wang: Yeah, you’re gonna work together and collaborate, so…
99 00:12:35.670 ⇒ 00:12:45.509 Hannah Wang: Anyway, I’m just… yeah, just keep trying to hand stuff off to people, because I think, Ryan, you’re, like, needed in a lot of different places, so…
100 00:12:45.740 ⇒ 00:12:46.500 Hannah Wang: Yeah.
101 00:12:47.310 ⇒ 00:12:48.920 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, they get banana.
102 00:12:49.080 ⇒ 00:12:53.279 Rico Rejoso: Very well. I mean, I think that’s one thing that he… I mean, if he had to prove on.
103 00:12:53.870 ⇒ 00:12:56.279 Rico Rejoso: In a short span of time already.
104 00:12:56.420 ⇒ 00:12:59.530 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, and Ray can easily pick that up. Trust him.
105 00:13:01.130 ⇒ 00:13:05.190 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, maybe, Ray, you can let us know what needs improvement on your end?
106 00:13:05.930 ⇒ 00:13:09.230 Raymund Verzosa: Yes, it’s kind of, like, connected to what
107 00:13:09.350 ⇒ 00:13:15.699 Raymund Verzosa: Udom mentioned this week? Is it this week? We’re making sure, all of the…
108 00:13:16.880 ⇒ 00:13:23.399 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah, shorts and, other backlog of finished videos get pushed out, so, yeah.
109 00:13:23.680 ⇒ 00:13:25.480 Rico Rejoso: How can we do that? What do you think?
110 00:13:25.700 ⇒ 00:13:32.199 Raymund Verzosa: It’s connected to my next step, actually, is to collaborate more with Ryan on publishing the backlogs.
111 00:13:32.410 ⇒ 00:13:35.919 Rico Rejoso: Okay? And aside from collaborating, maybe learners, and,
112 00:13:35.920 ⇒ 00:13:36.320 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah.
113 00:13:36.320 ⇒ 00:13:38.410 Rico Rejoso: the process and how Ryan is doing stuff.
114 00:13:38.410 ⇒ 00:13:42.460 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah, I’m… I’m… I cannot…
115 00:13:42.740 ⇒ 00:13:47.490 Raymund Verzosa: I think I needed to take over on the uploading side of YouTube as well, yeah.
116 00:13:47.750 ⇒ 00:13:50.180 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, you just get confirmation from Ryan that…
117 00:13:50.300 ⇒ 00:13:56.199 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah, just… yeah, I’m gonna collaborate on his description writing thingy.
118 00:13:56.200 ⇒ 00:14:04.349 Rico Rejoso: Just inform him about, you know, this is done, we want to send it out, you might want to get it reviewed by the team members and stuff.
119 00:14:04.740 ⇒ 00:14:11.149 Rico Rejoso: just communicate, and I think collaborating would be just, you know… or working on stuff would be much easier for you guys as well.
120 00:14:11.670 ⇒ 00:14:12.340 Rico Rejoso: Right?
121 00:14:12.590 ⇒ 00:14:13.190 Raymund Verzosa: Yep.
122 00:14:14.740 ⇒ 00:14:18.179 Rico Rejoso: Great point. And next up for Ryan.
123 00:14:18.330 ⇒ 00:14:20.470 Rico Rejoso: I need to learn to say no. Yeah.
124 00:14:22.900 ⇒ 00:14:24.320 Hannah Wang: Yeah, say no.
125 00:14:26.190 ⇒ 00:14:34.740 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, so, so it’s not like I… like, I’m, I’m, like, easy to, you know,
126 00:14:35.120 ⇒ 00:14:36.819 Ryan Brosas: What do you call this?
127 00:14:37.180 ⇒ 00:14:51.060 Ryan Brosas: to whatever it is. So, yeah, I learn… well, for me, it’s a… for every request on here in Brainforge, I see it’s, as a learning opportunity, because
128 00:14:51.060 ⇒ 00:15:00.309 Ryan Brosas: sometimes it’s, like, I’m involved on AI, and, like, sometimes I’m involved on, like, lead generation, so…
129 00:15:00.430 ⇒ 00:15:11.940 Ryan Brosas: I need to stop on looking on that and prioritize my commitment on sales or… well, on content. Yeah, I need to stop doing that.
130 00:15:12.140 ⇒ 00:15:14.100 Rico Rejoso: Alright. Hannah, anything on your end?
131 00:15:15.720 ⇒ 00:15:24.280 Hannah Wang: It’s just… yeah, I mean, go-to-market is totally new to me, so I kind of…
132 00:15:25.100 ⇒ 00:15:33.050 Hannah Wang: I’m still learning everything, and learning how to be strategic and stuff, and then… yeah, so it’s been… it’s been hard, but,
133 00:15:33.110 ⇒ 00:15:51.159 Hannah Wang: try my best, so I’ll just keep doing that. And then we have a lot of other, like, campaigns coming up for events, and conferences and stuff, so I think Ryan and I are both getting the hang of it, because we’ve done it once or twice before, so we’ll just keep getting better, hopefully.
134 00:15:51.160 ⇒ 00:15:51.730 Rico Rejoso: Great.
135 00:15:51.940 ⇒ 00:15:58.310 Rico Rejoso: Great. And, yeah, I think, just for Ryan, just don’t say no directly.
136 00:15:58.470 ⇒ 00:16:17.959 Rico Rejoso: I mean, there’s a process that we’re also, like, looking into. I think I’ve raised this concern a few weeks back with the PM team, and just because we’re so busy with a lot of stuff for the PM side, we’re so busy, we weren’t able to come up with, you know, strategic steps on how we can overcome this, but as soon as Justine came in.
137 00:16:18.100 ⇒ 00:16:22.919 Rico Rejoso: Based on the experience… his experience, we were able to knock down some
138 00:16:22.930 ⇒ 00:16:40.329 Rico Rejoso: ideas on how we can get this over with, like, for… if you’re managing two departments, like, for Ryan, going to sales and marketing, or maybe content as well, maybe try to divide the points that we’re working and, you know, give allowance for you to work on ad hoc stuff. And mainly is to check, and I think this is…
139 00:16:40.330 ⇒ 00:16:46.869 Rico Rejoso: one thing that I’m also looking into, and that is to check in on your stuff, and make sure that what is bland
140 00:16:46.900 ⇒ 00:17:07.300 Rico Rejoso: for every Monday, for the whole week, we stick to it. Anything that, you know, ad hoc stuff that came in, we need to confirm with our stakeholders, with Tom and Robert, that it’s either they prioritize what they just requested, or we stick with the plan, or we eliminate some of the stuff, some of the stuff that we have planned on for the week.
141 00:17:07.300 ⇒ 00:17:10.560 Rico Rejoso: To replace the ad hocs for the repairs with.
142 00:17:11.210 ⇒ 00:17:12.079 Hannah Wang: Yes.
143 00:17:12.650 ⇒ 00:17:25.299 Hannah Wang: Agreed. Yeah. Like, I… I feel like when Utam and Robert… I mean, they throw out ideas all the time, which is great, but sometimes they don’t prioritize it. So for me, like, I’m still learning how to
144 00:17:25.430 ⇒ 00:17:32.810 Hannah Wang: figure out what’s urgent and what’s important, and I don’t really know how to prioritize, so I think the tendency for…
145 00:17:33.100 ⇒ 00:17:48.560 Hannah Wang: people like me and maybe this team is to be like, oh, if they tell us to do something, we have to do it right away, and then we, like, end up doing a bunch of ad hoc stuff. So, Rico, I think, yeah, UPMing sales and marketing would be helpful so that you can help us, like, prioritize
146 00:17:48.650 ⇒ 00:17:53.209 Hannah Wang: And then just keep working on the stuff that’s…
147 00:17:53.330 ⇒ 00:17:58.719 Hannah Wang: Slotted for the sprint only, and not doing other stuff.
148 00:17:58.720 ⇒ 00:18:17.930 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, I agree on that one. I mean, during our planning, we have Utam on the meeting, right, and we usually ask him what we need to prioritize, but instead of just doing that, maybe, you know, get their ideas every now and then. They have a lot of ideas when it comes to content and stuff, and they just throw it in to you guys for you to either take note or
149 00:18:17.930 ⇒ 00:18:24.849 Rico Rejoso: finalized, right? But if we just take those ideas, put them on backlogs, present it to them, like, hey.
150 00:18:24.890 ⇒ 00:18:44.190 Rico Rejoso: you mentioned doing this, but we’re currently working on this and that list down. Maybe they can say that, yeah, what I suggested is not, you know, high priority right now, it’s not urgent, maybe you can just focus on what you’re doing right now. I think it’s more of a communicating with our stakeholders on what work should be done during that, during that sprint.
151 00:18:44.740 ⇒ 00:18:49.030 Rico Rejoso: And at the same time, continue providing end-of-day updates.
152 00:18:49.650 ⇒ 00:18:52.799 Rico Rejoso: On Slack as… on Slack, because I think…
153 00:18:52.880 ⇒ 00:19:14.150 Rico Rejoso: that’s one thing I’m also implementing myself, since I haven’t done that. I’ve done that, like, for the first two weeks of my stay here, but I haven’t done it previously, since after, like, a lot of stuff, you just want to, like, sit down and, you know, relax for a bit. But yeah, it’s good that we provide end-of-day updates for all of us, and let them know what we’re working on, what our actual
154 00:19:14.240 ⇒ 00:19:21.069 Rico Rejoso: I mean, what are in progress, and what we’re planning on to finish, on the next day, or on the next week.
155 00:19:21.150 ⇒ 00:19:31.929 Rico Rejoso: It’s good that we also communicate with them more, so that we can, you know, get a sense of what we’re doing, and just think about, maybe, at the same time, think that, wait.
156 00:19:31.930 ⇒ 00:19:45.349 Rico Rejoso: these guys are, like, doing a lot of stuff, maybe I shouldn’t, like, show any ideas. If, in case you have a Notion file where you guys throw their… Where they throw their ideas with, right? Maybe they just have to jot it down there, and maybe we can take a look at it afterwards.
157 00:19:46.830 ⇒ 00:19:56.250 Rico Rejoso: are some of the next steps that we’re planning on on the PM side as well, and great job on the next step that we have on the marketing side. Let’s work on this one. Any questions so far?
158 00:19:57.870 ⇒ 00:19:59.150 Rico Rejoso: Any suggestions?
159 00:19:59.590 ⇒ 00:20:00.770 Rico Rejoso: Action steps.
160 00:20:03.820 ⇒ 00:20:09.929 Hannah Wang: No, I think what you said is dead for, like, the note in Notion or something, but…
161 00:20:10.120 ⇒ 00:20:18.719 Hannah Wang: Yeah, well, I don’t know, I feel like Utam and Robert are always on the go and on their phones, so I feel like Slack is just more accessible to them than.
162 00:20:19.120 ⇒ 00:20:21.040 Hannah Wang: Ocean, so probably, like.
163 00:20:21.540 ⇒ 00:20:28.980 Hannah Wang: one of you… it’d be helpful if you, like, if they send it to Slack, like, you add it to the Notion, or something like that.
164 00:20:29.810 ⇒ 00:20:30.560 Rico Rejoso: I can do that.
165 00:20:30.560 ⇒ 00:20:31.489 Hannah Wang: By the way.
166 00:20:31.490 ⇒ 00:20:38.960 Rico Rejoso: Maybe you can ping me on that, because, there’s a lot… I mean, a lot of unread stuff on Slack that I’m also working on, like backlogs of…
167 00:20:39.090 ⇒ 00:20:40.900 Rico Rejoso: tickets that I’m working with other…
168 00:20:41.110 ⇒ 00:20:54.869 Rico Rejoso: team and personal request from Utang as well. Maybe we can… maybe if you can ping me on that, let me know that this is another thing. Because I also created a Notion page for Robert, where he can dump on his ideas for content and marketing stuff.
169 00:20:54.870 ⇒ 00:20:55.690 Hannah Wang: I see.
170 00:20:56.020 ⇒ 00:21:03.590 Rico Rejoso: Maybe I can work on it as well. But let’s try, let’s experiment, let’s explore a different process on how we can make things easier for the rest of us, right?
171 00:21:04.850 ⇒ 00:21:10.469 Hannah Wang: So just, like, ping you if they’re like, oh, can we do this, but give no priority?
172 00:21:10.860 ⇒ 00:21:17.049 Rico Rejoso: Yep, and I’ll ping them to let, to, like, ask them what needs to be prioritized.
173 00:21:17.520 ⇒ 00:21:25.700 Rico Rejoso: Okay. I’m sorry for that kind of request, guys, if I asked you guys to, like, you know, inform me, but I just want to make sure… Oh, that’s okay.
174 00:21:26.270 ⇒ 00:21:32.420 Hannah Wang: Yeah, that’s… that’s not… that’s not hard. Being, like, at Ricoh is not hard. Okay.
175 00:21:32.420 ⇒ 00:21:37.970 Rico Rejoso: Definitely. And like what you did with, Ann’s request, just ping me, let me know, I’ll work on it ASAP.
176 00:21:38.730 ⇒ 00:21:39.560 Hannah Wang: Okay.
177 00:21:39.560 ⇒ 00:21:48.760 Rico Rejoso: Alrighty, if we don’t have anything else for our retro, maybe we can proceed to stand up real quick, just to get an overview of the tickets that you guys are working on, and get updates from you guys.
178 00:21:49.020 ⇒ 00:21:49.639 Rico Rejoso: One study.
179 00:21:49.640 ⇒ 00:21:50.180 Hannah Wang: Yep.
180 00:21:50.710 ⇒ 00:21:56.439 Rico Rejoso: marketing side, we only have, like, technically two tickets that you guys are working on. The others are for Utham and Robert’s team.
181 00:21:56.440 ⇒ 00:21:57.110 Hannah Wang: S?
182 00:21:57.350 ⇒ 00:21:59.600 Rico Rejoso: Can you update me on the tickets?
183 00:22:00.200 ⇒ 00:22:19.069 Hannah Wang: Yeah, 8.56, like I said, that’s a placeholder ticket that will probably figure out how to make tickets for me in the sales section of Linear. So, anyway, I’ll close that today, because I did that throughout this week, and then UTMs,
184 00:22:19.210 ⇒ 00:22:20.780 Hannah Wang: Yeah, Anna and I are…
185 00:22:20.960 ⇒ 00:22:34.859 Hannah Wang: talking back and forth about that. I asked her to check something and implement it, today, so she’ll probably get to it next week, so I think we need to create a carryover ticket, unfortunately.
186 00:22:34.860 ⇒ 00:22:35.810 Rico Rejoso: Okay.
187 00:22:36.850 ⇒ 00:22:41.800 Rico Rejoso: I just, you know, want to know what happened, why should we carry this over for next week?
188 00:22:42.720 ⇒ 00:22:45.230 Hannah Wang: Yeah, you can look at the thread, but…
189 00:22:45.460 ⇒ 00:22:52.580 Hannah Wang: It was just a lot of, like, oh, this isn’t possible, should we do this? Or, like, what about this? And then it was just back and forth.
190 00:22:52.770 ⇒ 00:23:02.959 Hannah Wang: because it’s, like, she’s… she works Asia hours, and I work U.S. hours, so we can’t, like, ping back and forth, so I think that’s why it was a bit slow.
191 00:23:03.680 ⇒ 00:23:07.689 Hannah Wang: Update-wise, because it’s, like, one day after the other.
192 00:23:07.690 ⇒ 00:23:08.759 Rico Rejoso: Yeah. So…
193 00:23:08.850 ⇒ 00:23:09.640 Hannah Wang: Yeah.
194 00:23:10.230 ⇒ 00:23:20.219 Rico Rejoso: Okay, I’ll look into this and create a copy for the next sprint. Other than that, you can close the 856 ticket, right? And that leaves us with the needs review. How are we on this?
195 00:23:21.200 ⇒ 00:23:28.180 Hannah Wang: I still haven’t gotten a review, but I’ll… I’ll ping Utam again today.
196 00:23:28.420 ⇒ 00:23:29.960 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, no worries, I think he’s back.
197 00:23:30.190 ⇒ 00:23:37.749 Rico Rejoso: On his office. And maybe this will go throughout the weekend for him, and maybe provide updates by then.
198 00:23:38.500 ⇒ 00:23:45.670 Hannah Wang: Yeah, and then… You can finish that up, and then I’ll… Finish my update.
199 00:23:47.740 ⇒ 00:23:54.850 Hannah Wang: For 825, I took a look at it, but I don’t think Anne did what I asked her to.
200 00:23:55.180 ⇒ 00:24:00.429 Hannah Wang: So that’s my bad. So, can you just move that to the next cycle?
201 00:24:00.660 ⇒ 00:24:01.340 Rico Rejoso: Okay.
202 00:24:01.830 ⇒ 00:24:03.390 Rico Rejoso: So the problem is…
203 00:24:04.680 ⇒ 00:24:07.739 Hannah Wang: she… I think she just misunderstood, like…
204 00:24:08.180 ⇒ 00:24:18.710 Hannah Wang: the ask, so I’ll update the ticket, and… yeah. I haven’t done marketing stuff today. I’ve only been doing sales stuff, so I’ll get to marketing later.
205 00:24:19.200 ⇒ 00:24:25.429 Rico Rejoso: No worries. I prayed a copy on this one, and maybe you can provide updates on the thread, or on a comment for 825 ticket.
206 00:24:26.290 ⇒ 00:24:30.589 Hannah Wang: I don’t think Anne took that long for this ticket, honestly, so you can just…
207 00:24:30.700 ⇒ 00:24:34.689 Hannah Wang: carry it over. Like, she probably did, like, 30 minutes of work.
208 00:24:34.690 ⇒ 00:24:35.160 Rico Rejoso: So…
209 00:24:35.160 ⇒ 00:24:36.810 Hannah Wang: So… I… yeah.
210 00:24:37.260 ⇒ 00:24:44.309 Rico Rejoso: Okay, let me create a copy, and maybe, as mentioned, you can, like, post an update on this one, and what happened, why this is carried over.
211 00:24:45.610 ⇒ 00:24:52.589 Hannah Wang: Yeah, should we point that as zero? Because she, like… I don’t think it took her that long. Yeah, okay.
212 00:24:53.260 ⇒ 00:24:54.070 Hannah Wang: Yeah.
213 00:24:54.980 ⇒ 00:24:57.229 Rico Rejoso: Okay, maybe you could go sit out after, after you.
214 00:24:57.230 ⇒ 00:24:58.410 Hannah Wang: Yeah, sure.
215 00:24:58.520 ⇒ 00:24:59.509 Rico Rejoso: Thank you. Okay.
216 00:25:01.670 ⇒ 00:25:03.580 Rico Rejoso: Anything else? So aside from that.
217 00:25:03.580 ⇒ 00:25:03.940 Hannah Wang: No.
218 00:25:03.940 ⇒ 00:25:05.790 Rico Rejoso: was for review. Okay.
219 00:25:05.790 ⇒ 00:25:06.440 Hannah Wang: Yeah.
220 00:25:06.880 ⇒ 00:25:12.609 Rico Rejoso: Got it, thank you so much. Hopefully we can, you know, close this out, and get 100% completion by this…
221 00:25:13.520 ⇒ 00:25:15.409 Rico Rejoso: And we’ll work out all the tickets that…
222 00:25:15.700 ⇒ 00:25:25.819 Rico Rejoso: needs updates with. Alrighty, thank you so much for the update, Hannah. Let’s go with the content team. Same goes, 4 tickets, less than 5 tickets remaining for the cycle, or for the sprint.
223 00:25:26.050 ⇒ 00:25:27.390 Rico Rejoso: Let’s see…
224 00:25:27.830 ⇒ 00:25:33.889 Rico Rejoso: Okay, updates on this one? Let’s start with the in-progress. How are we on this one, Ray?
225 00:25:35.350 ⇒ 00:25:39.619 Raymund Verzosa: The long-form Propel webinar is done.
226 00:25:39.920 ⇒ 00:25:41.500 Rico Rejoso: Okay, let me close this ad.
227 00:25:42.860 ⇒ 00:25:44.649 Rico Rejoso: Alright, how about the 223?
228 00:25:45.520 ⇒ 00:25:57.340 Raymund Verzosa: I finished, like, maybe 50%, but… Yeah, I’ll try to… That got moved, yes.
229 00:25:57.740 ⇒ 00:25:59.570 Raymund Verzosa: When I’m doing revision stuff.
230 00:26:00.280 ⇒ 00:26:03.339 Raymund Verzosa: I, I mean, I only started that because,
231 00:26:03.770 ⇒ 00:26:06.399 Raymund Verzosa: While waiting for feedbacks and stuff.
232 00:26:06.720 ⇒ 00:26:07.350 Raymund Verzosa: So, yeah.
233 00:26:08.720 ⇒ 00:26:09.850 Raymund Verzosa: But… I think so.
234 00:26:10.440 ⇒ 00:26:13.820 Raymund Verzosa: Yeah, I’ll try to finish that early… next week.
235 00:26:14.210 ⇒ 00:26:17.109 Raymund Verzosa: But it’s… yeah, I’m, like, 50% done.
236 00:26:17.890 ⇒ 00:26:24.380 Rico Rejoso: Okay, maybe let’s try to create a copy for it for next weekend close. 50% done, so we could put 2 points here and 3 points for the next cycle, right?
237 00:26:24.730 ⇒ 00:26:25.270 Raymund Verzosa: Yep.
238 00:26:34.640 ⇒ 00:26:35.280 Rico Rejoso: Okay.
239 00:26:35.690 ⇒ 00:26:37.049 Rico Rejoso: This one is 2.
240 00:26:37.220 ⇒ 00:26:55.990 Rico Rejoso: So you mentioned that you, you just put it in here. This is, like, backlog stuff that you’re working on, and, you just started working on this one since you were waiting for, feedbacks or updates for the current project. Okay, got it. Let me update it later on and close it out. And for the blocked one.
241 00:26:56.110 ⇒ 00:26:58.279 Rico Rejoso: Ryan? Oof, you added one.
242 00:26:58.280 ⇒ 00:27:05.410 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, for that, I need to contact Jake for that, so…
243 00:27:05.770 ⇒ 00:27:08.200 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, I need to work with Jake.
244 00:27:15.490 ⇒ 00:27:18.639 Rico Rejoso: Okay, this one, right? You need to work with Jake?
245 00:27:18.860 ⇒ 00:27:22.799 Rico Rejoso: Were you able to… this was done 17. When was that?
246 00:27:23.160 ⇒ 00:27:24.310 Rico Rejoso: Around Wednesday?
247 00:27:26.430 ⇒ 00:27:27.190 Ryan Brosas: I’m not…
248 00:27:27.190 ⇒ 00:27:28.480 Rico Rejoso: Did you need any updates?
249 00:27:28.820 ⇒ 00:27:29.580 Rico Rejoso: I’m not…
250 00:27:29.680 ⇒ 00:27:35.350 Ryan Brosas: sure if he already did an interview, but I will check.
251 00:27:36.770 ⇒ 00:27:39.889 Hannah Wang: Wait, he sent an update in the Slack, let me see.
252 00:27:40.310 ⇒ 00:27:40.980 Ryan Brosas: Okay, sweet.
253 00:27:40.980 ⇒ 00:27:42.330 Hannah Wang: It’s scheduled.
254 00:27:42.540 ⇒ 00:27:44.190 Hannah Wang: Next week, yeah. Yeah, it’s scheduled.
255 00:27:44.580 ⇒ 00:27:46.350 Rico Rejoso: Okay, so this was rescheduled.
256 00:27:53.620 ⇒ 00:27:57.800 Rico Rejoso: Is there any definite time for the rescheduled date, or none?
257 00:27:59.460 ⇒ 00:28:01.010 Hannah Wang: Oh, no. No.
258 00:28:01.220 ⇒ 00:28:01.790 Rico Rejoso: Ew.
259 00:28:05.050 ⇒ 00:28:07.470 Rico Rejoso: Let me just spake in this one.
260 00:28:09.670 ⇒ 00:28:11.559 Rico Rejoso: Okay, okay, take this off.
261 00:28:11.760 ⇒ 00:28:12.480 Rico Rejoso: For now.
262 00:28:13.320 ⇒ 00:28:15.790 Rico Rejoso: Remove the due date, then move it to the next cycle.
263 00:28:16.520 ⇒ 00:28:18.840 Rico Rejoso: So there were no progress on this one, right?
264 00:28:22.820 ⇒ 00:28:26.819 Rico Rejoso: Alrighty, the one that you just added, how are we on this, Ryan?
265 00:28:27.220 ⇒ 00:28:31.109 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, I will do that today, and I think I’ll…
266 00:28:31.590 ⇒ 00:28:34.299 Ryan Brosas: tried to record it, how I do it.
267 00:28:34.470 ⇒ 00:28:43.180 Ryan Brosas: So, also, like, build an SOP for that, so, so I can hand that over to…
268 00:28:43.720 ⇒ 00:28:48.179 Ryan Brosas: what do you call this? Raymont, yeah, Ray, sorry.
269 00:28:49.870 ⇒ 00:29:01.589 Rico Rejoso: Alrighty, so I’m gonna set this one for today, hopefully we close it out by today, and yeah, we’re thinking on providing an SOP. I forgot to mention that earlier. But yeah, great jobs. Let’s create that SOP, hand it over to…
270 00:29:01.690 ⇒ 00:29:07.029 Rico Rejoso: Ray, and maybe you can put it on AI or something so they can generate those results.
271 00:29:07.370 ⇒ 00:29:08.719 Rico Rejoso: Is that what you’re doing, Ryan?
272 00:29:10.020 ⇒ 00:29:16.779 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, so I have, like, a template of… or I already made a template of SOP, then…
273 00:29:16.900 ⇒ 00:29:24.360 Ryan Brosas: provide, like, a transcript, then, yeah, that would make the whole, SOP.
274 00:29:24.690 ⇒ 00:29:30.789 Rico Rejoso: I think you can work… I mean, Ray can add it to the work before posting it on YTube as well, right?
275 00:29:32.200 ⇒ 00:29:33.010 Rico Rejoso: Right?
276 00:29:33.010 ⇒ 00:29:33.620 Raymund Verzosa: Yep.
277 00:29:34.040 ⇒ 00:29:39.079 Rico Rejoso: Great. Okay, needs review. This one is… We talk about this one.
278 00:29:39.350 ⇒ 00:29:41.869 Rico Rejoso: Not yet. How are we on this, right?
279 00:29:42.230 ⇒ 00:29:44.719 Rico Rejoso: Who should be paying for this one, Jake?
280 00:29:45.180 ⇒ 00:29:49.089 Ryan Brosas: it’s Jake, so, I will, reach…
281 00:29:49.590 ⇒ 00:29:54.280 Ryan Brosas: Sorry, so, I will send that over, over the weekends.
282 00:29:54.280 ⇒ 00:29:54.750 Rico Rejoso: When…
283 00:29:54.750 ⇒ 00:29:55.109 Ryan Brosas: like a…
284 00:29:55.110 ⇒ 00:29:57.220 Rico Rejoso: Last point regarding this one.
285 00:29:57.740 ⇒ 00:30:07.399 Ryan Brosas: No, he hasn’t, because the only thing that I know for Jake is he is, more on content.
286 00:30:07.400 ⇒ 00:30:19.209 Ryan Brosas: And I’m not sure if blog post is included on that, but I will try to, like, include that also on, on the content reviews, all the content reviews.
287 00:30:19.290 ⇒ 00:30:26.640 Ryan Brosas: And I will also, like, do some other blog posts, because, it’s already, like, Way too long.
288 00:30:27.120 ⇒ 00:30:27.730 Rico Rejoso: Yeah.
289 00:30:27.840 ⇒ 00:30:45.230 Rico Rejoso: maybe that’s one thing, communicate more with him in regards to what is working, or what he can take on, on your end, and maybe help you unblock some of the stuff, especially for the one that needs reviews from either Utam and Robert, since he’s taking on some of the related tasks, right, for your content.
290 00:30:45.230 ⇒ 00:30:48.680 Rico Rejoso: We’re… and he will be reviewing some of this stuff before you post it, correct?
291 00:30:49.530 ⇒ 00:30:50.700 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, that is noted.
292 00:30:50.700 ⇒ 00:30:51.360 Rico Rejoso: Okay.
293 00:30:51.530 ⇒ 00:30:59.820 Rico Rejoso: I’m gonna say here that it needs review from Jake, but moving forward, let’s make sure we ping him, especially if we assign it to this week, and you move it to needs review, and…
294 00:31:00.420 ⇒ 00:31:05.659 Rico Rejoso: we need Jake’s review for it, make sure you ping him, since what you mentioned, the fault is that you…
295 00:31:05.860 ⇒ 00:31:09.510 Rico Rejoso: Haven’t pinged him yet regarding this topic, or communicated with him yet.
296 00:31:09.640 ⇒ 00:31:10.300 Rico Rejoso: Right?
297 00:31:10.710 ⇒ 00:31:11.310 Ryan Brosas: Yeah.
298 00:31:11.940 ⇒ 00:31:12.590 Rico Rejoso: Okay.
299 00:31:12.800 ⇒ 00:31:17.460 Rico Rejoso: You know, let us go, we’re still transitioning to a different process, but moving forward, let’s take note of that, okay?
300 00:31:19.680 ⇒ 00:31:22.009 Rico Rejoso: Alrighty, let’s move into the next cycle for now.
301 00:31:23.440 ⇒ 00:31:29.190 Rico Rejoso: Okay, that give us what this… Okay.
302 00:31:29.840 ⇒ 00:31:33.860 Rico Rejoso: This one can be finished or completed after you did this, right?
303 00:31:34.010 ⇒ 00:31:34.710 Ryan Brosas: Yeah.
304 00:31:34.710 ⇒ 00:31:43.929 Rico Rejoso: Alrighty, great job. Let’s close it out strong, and hopefully clear all the tickets. I’ll be checking this one by end of day. Hopefully we can… I mean, what time do you guys finish your shift?
305 00:31:45.200 ⇒ 00:31:50.979 Ryan Brosas: Usually it’s 5, but I usually out, like, 6 or 7.
306 00:31:51.140 ⇒ 00:31:55.129 Rico Rejoso: Okay, I think Hannah’s around… 5PM Pacific time, right?
307 00:31:56.310 ⇒ 00:32:01.250 Hannah Wang: Yeah, like, I… I’ll do it, like, in the next hour, so… No worries.
308 00:32:01.250 ⇒ 00:32:10.770 Rico Rejoso: Okay, got it. Alright, so that’s it. I’ll be checking this one by end of day. Thank you so much for joining the retro and stand-up, guys. Let’s go sit out strong, and you guys have a good weekend, okay?
309 00:32:11.090 ⇒ 00:32:11.840 Rico Rejoso: You too.
310 00:32:11.840 ⇒ 00:32:13.010 Hannah Wang: You too!
311 00:32:13.290 ⇒ 00:32:13.990 Raymund Verzosa: Thank you, bye.
312 00:32:13.990 ⇒ 00:32:14.520 Hannah Wang: Right.