Meeting Title: Weekly-Data-Review Date: 2024-06-07 Meeting participants: Nicolas Sucari, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:00:22.430 ⇒ 00:00:23.380 Uttam Kumaran: East.
2 00:01:49.023 ⇒ 00:01:49.629 Nicolas Sucari: You done.
3 00:01:50.120 ⇒ 00:01:51.409 Uttam Kumaran: Hey! Good morning!
4 00:01:52.360 ⇒ 00:01:53.180 Nicolas Sucari: How are you?
5 00:01:53.530 ⇒ 00:01:54.320 Uttam Kumaran: Good?
6 00:01:55.450 ⇒ 00:01:58.530 Uttam Kumaran: Is there a way? Is it hot.
7 00:01:59.530 ⇒ 00:02:00.660 Nicolas Sucari: What sorry.
8 00:02:00.660 ⇒ 00:02:03.220 Uttam Kumaran: Is there a way you could do side by side in motion?
9 00:02:05.138 ⇒ 00:02:09.220 Nicolas Sucari: Like, open 2 to different pages. I am not sure.
10 00:02:10.660 ⇒ 00:02:13.610 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, I think it. It doesn’t have that feature yet.
11 00:02:13.840 ⇒ 00:02:14.560 Uttam Kumaran: It’s just one.
12 00:02:14.560 ⇒ 00:02:15.589 Nicolas Sucari: Great feature.
13 00:02:15.860 ⇒ 00:02:16.720 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
14 00:02:17.100 ⇒ 00:02:17.830 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
15 00:02:19.110 ⇒ 00:02:23.510 Nicolas Sucari: I mean, you can open like pages like like half, you know.
16 00:02:23.810 ⇒ 00:02:24.519 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
17 00:02:25.230 ⇒ 00:02:25.860 Nicolas Sucari: But you can.
18 00:02:25.860 ⇒ 00:02:26.630 Uttam Kumaran: He is.
19 00:02:27.900 ⇒ 00:02:28.620 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
20 00:02:31.420 ⇒ 00:02:33.392 Uttam Kumaran: Sorry I cut you off. What were you gonna say?
21 00:02:34.220 ⇒ 00:02:37.469 Nicolas Sucari: No, no! If you were like waking up early today.
22 00:02:37.640 ⇒ 00:02:39.270 Nicolas Sucari: or you were able to sleep.
23 00:02:39.440 ⇒ 00:02:45.890 Uttam Kumaran: I was able to sleep. No, I I slept really early. I feel fine today. Big day I
24 00:02:46.480 ⇒ 00:02:48.113 Uttam Kumaran: I sent the note to
25 00:02:48.670 ⇒ 00:02:50.179 Uttam Kumaran: to all the interns.
26 00:02:52.300 ⇒ 00:03:00.339 Uttam Kumaran: so I’ll be working this weekend on, like basically crafting a plan for everybody. Honestly, it’s like my idea is to bring everyone in as a
27 00:03:00.360 ⇒ 00:03:06.220 Uttam Kumaran: as a junior on one of those things. And then kind of some rotations
28 00:03:06.230 ⇒ 00:03:08.519 Uttam Kumaran: basically have people pick like
29 00:03:09.090 ⇒ 00:03:15.420 Uttam Kumaran: this. We have, we have almost we have 3 roles. So basically, I think if people are here for 2 months, then they can pick like 2 rotations.
30 00:03:15.570 ⇒ 00:03:17.849 Uttam Kumaran: And then I want them to kind of shadow
31 00:03:17.910 ⇒ 00:03:32.030 Uttam Kumaran: could be the lightest program I can develop. But I’ve dealt with interns before, and the main thing is just giving them time and clear in primary. So nothing different than what we’re gonna attempt to do for our team. So.
32 00:03:32.700 ⇒ 00:03:41.370 Nicolas Sucari: Do you want like? I don’t know. What time are you want? Do you want to scale that meeting for Monday with them? But if you want like to have something
33 00:03:41.470 ⇒ 00:03:47.289 Nicolas Sucari: with me like a meeting with me before that, let me know. And we can. Yeah, go through everything.
34 00:03:47.760 ⇒ 00:03:49.368 Uttam Kumaran: Let’s do that. Yeah,
35 00:03:50.260 ⇒ 00:03:50.840 Uttam Kumaran: I haven’t.
36 00:03:51.445 ⇒ 00:03:52.050 Nicolas Sucari: Also.
37 00:03:52.050 ⇒ 00:03:52.780 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
38 00:03:52.780 ⇒ 00:04:01.659 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, like you. The idea is, obviously I I think I it’s it’s great like to make the rotations so that they can like.
39 00:04:01.830 ⇒ 00:04:07.480 Nicolas Sucari: have a little bit of work on each of the different areas and different roles. But do you like
40 00:04:07.780 ⇒ 00:04:16.700 Nicolas Sucari: know in which pro like, they will be working for pull parts as a link. And Stella is, that’s your idea, or like more internal projects, as we discussed before.
41 00:04:16.700 ⇒ 00:04:19.624 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, it. Kinda it’s kind of gonna be
42 00:04:20.050 ⇒ 00:04:21.639 Uttam Kumaran: It’s gonna be a mix.
43 00:04:22.964 ⇒ 00:04:29.032 Uttam Kumaran: I think it’s going to be a mix of internal and a mix of stuff for clients.
44 00:04:29.430 ⇒ 00:04:36.030 Uttam Kumaran: it’s kinda kind of depending the data. Engineering folks are. Gonna have some stuff that’s internal. The analytics folks will have some stuff that’s external.
45 00:04:37.030 ⇒ 00:04:37.700 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
46 00:04:39.060 ⇒ 00:04:42.152 Uttam Kumaran: And then I want, I want them to basically get paired with
47 00:04:43.230 ⇒ 00:04:45.250 Uttam Kumaran: with someone senior, basically
48 00:04:46.950 ⇒ 00:04:48.080 Uttam Kumaran: And
49 00:04:48.600 ⇒ 00:04:51.740 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, again, it’ll, it’ll just be a little bit more
50 00:04:51.780 ⇒ 00:04:57.759 Uttam Kumaran: on our side to. It’ll just be a couple of more people. But I think overall. I just want them to get exposure to it, and then
51 00:04:57.780 ⇒ 00:05:01.457 Uttam Kumaran: quickly, I want people to find out what they like, what they don’t like.
52 00:05:01.940 ⇒ 00:05:02.950 Uttam Kumaran: you know.
53 00:05:03.271 ⇒ 00:05:17.130 Uttam Kumaran: Everyone be really capable. And in this whole process. It’s actually gonna help us like develop like trainings, basically like, what is it? What do you need to know in each of these roles and like, where do you go to get those resources?
54 00:05:17.180 ⇒ 00:05:19.910 Uttam Kumaran: And so each of these, I’m actually gonna have
55 00:05:20.030 ⇒ 00:05:24.790 Uttam Kumaran: the interns work on creating this notion documentation and things like that around.
56 00:05:24.790 ⇒ 00:05:25.680 Nicolas Sucari: Excellent.
57 00:05:25.680 ⇒ 00:05:26.360 Uttam Kumaran: So.
58 00:05:26.670 ⇒ 00:05:34.520 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah. And also, do you have like, I know, I probably you do like some courses or like.
59 00:05:34.530 ⇒ 00:05:47.859 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, learning material for each of the roles, or like something in general that we can like. Yeah. Set up probably like an ocean page with all the links and the stuff so that they can also like invest some time on, on, on that.
60 00:05:48.040 ⇒ 00:05:48.929 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I do. Maybe.
61 00:05:48.930 ⇒ 00:05:49.820 Nicolas Sucari: Think it’s.
62 00:05:49.820 ⇒ 00:05:54.130 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe let’s go through it. Yes, tomorrow or later. Today.
63 00:05:54.280 ⇒ 00:06:05.810 Uttam Kumaran: I have a I have like some stuff that I typically send people when they’re trying to learn this. And basically we’ll be expecting the 1st 2 weeks. I’ll basically want people to just kind of run through
64 00:06:05.980 ⇒ 00:06:12.350 Uttam Kumaran: exercises. And then talk to us about things and then begin to take on stuff.
65 00:06:13.430 ⇒ 00:06:16.270 Uttam Kumaran: and then that’ll buy. That’ll buy us a little bit of time, too.
66 00:06:17.020 ⇒ 00:06:17.710 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
67 00:06:17.710 ⇒ 00:06:35.199 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, yeah, exactly, because I think that in order to start like giving like actual requirements from clients or projects like, they need like this kind of 2 weeks of like introductions learning process. Yeah. And like, get to know the tools and what they will be doing. I think it’s great.
68 00:06:35.590 ⇒ 00:06:37.639 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. And I want everyone to push their 1st
69 00:06:37.720 ⇒ 00:06:42.060 Uttam Kumaran: like table, their 1st Dbt workflow, their 1st action.
70 00:06:42.340 ⇒ 00:06:46.546 Nicolas Sucari: Hey? I’m I’m gonna I’m gonna be like, I’m gonna be an intro with them. I’m totally gonna.
71 00:06:46.780 ⇒ 00:06:48.140 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, hey?
72 00:06:49.360 ⇒ 00:06:51.050 Nicolas Sucari: My free time. Obviously.
73 00:06:51.050 ⇒ 00:06:59.546 Uttam Kumaran: No, no, no, it’s perfect. I mean, look i i i’ve always been honest. I think this is a skill that anyone can learn if you’re computer savvy? I think
74 00:06:59.910 ⇒ 00:07:03.189 Uttam Kumaran: you know, it’s takes a little bit of a different brain. But
75 00:07:03.290 ⇒ 00:07:07.550 Uttam Kumaran: like, I don’t know, I’ve taught a lot of people how to do this job. So
76 00:07:07.630 ⇒ 00:07:10.249 Uttam Kumaran: I’m confident that anyone can learn this.
77 00:07:11.360 ⇒ 00:07:12.790 Nicolas Sucari: Excellent. Yeah.
78 00:07:15.320 ⇒ 00:07:16.040 Uttam Kumaran: Let me.
79 00:07:16.800 ⇒ 00:07:17.530 Uttam Kumaran: And.
80 00:07:43.330 ⇒ 00:07:45.904 Nicolas Sucari: And they will be working
81 00:07:46.730 ⇒ 00:07:48.960 Nicolas Sucari: like. How many hours. Do you know.
82 00:07:51.010 ⇒ 00:07:55.100 Uttam Kumaran: I’m I need to kind of figure out that with each person.
83 00:07:56.270 ⇒ 00:07:56.860 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
84 00:08:57.700 ⇒ 00:09:00.200 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, I think Ben has to postpone
85 00:09:01.093 ⇒ 00:09:05.089 Uttam Kumaran: I’m just texting him, said, Monday is better.
86 00:09:05.190 ⇒ 00:09:06.960 Uttam Kumaran: So let’s okay.
87 00:09:08.830 ⇒ 00:09:13.799 Uttam Kumaran: Can we? Let’s move this? Do you own this meeting? Or I own this meeting? Okay.
88 00:09:14.110 ⇒ 00:09:14.949 Nicolas Sucari: And with you.
89 00:09:17.010 ⇒ 00:09:20.289 Nicolas Sucari: you own this meeting. Yeah, you’re the organizer
90 00:09:21.190 ⇒ 00:09:29.089 Nicolas Sucari: you have, like, okay, you have like a pool parts to go email to. But yeah, no, I think the owner is from Brave. Yeah, which I’m from brave.
91 00:09:29.570 ⇒ 00:09:30.230 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
92 00:09:33.760 ⇒ 00:09:39.000 Nicolas Sucari: Cool. I’m excited with this intern program stuff. I think it’s gonna be like, really.
93 00:09:39.250 ⇒ 00:09:41.060 Nicolas Sucari: really good and useful
94 00:09:41.350 ⇒ 00:09:42.320 Nicolas Sucari: for everyone.
95 00:09:44.500 ⇒ 00:09:45.285 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I
96 00:09:46.492 ⇒ 00:09:49.030 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know. This is how life goes like
97 00:09:49.410 ⇒ 00:09:53.570 Uttam Kumaran: it’s just everything all at once. But you know we make it happen.
98 00:09:53.570 ⇒ 00:09:54.430 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
99 00:09:54.880 ⇒ 00:10:12.059 Nicolas Sucari: we will make it happen. I I work like like this before with interns and our stuff and creating like these introductions for people that doesn’t know anything, and, like the most important thing is like to give to to be near them and try to yeah, help them on their journey.
100 00:10:12.890 ⇒ 00:10:15.720 Nicolas Sucari: probably it will be like a ton of work
101 00:10:16.039 ⇒ 00:10:22.529 Nicolas Sucari: at the beginning, but once we had that figured out, I think it will be super helpful for the team. Yeah.
102 00:10:22.530 ⇒ 00:10:23.210 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
103 00:10:27.510 ⇒ 00:10:31.640 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, so let me move this to Monday.
104 00:11:22.600 ⇒ 00:11:31.120 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, we can move this from Monday. And also, yeah, we can send like an update email because they didn’t send it yesterday. So yeah, that’s probably fine. Probably send it today.
105 00:11:31.180 ⇒ 00:11:32.749 Nicolas Sucari: and we can have the meeting on Monday.
106 00:11:33.730 ⇒ 00:11:36.770 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, it would be great, actually, honestly, to send
107 00:11:37.150 ⇒ 00:11:40.780 Uttam Kumaran: the notion screenshot or something.
108 00:11:40.820 ⇒ 00:11:43.380 Uttam Kumaran: and basically say, like, this is what we’re gonna go through.
109 00:11:44.406 ⇒ 00:11:46.549 Uttam Kumaran: These are the main questions. We have
110 00:11:47.270 ⇒ 00:11:49.030 Uttam Kumaran: talk Monday like.
111 00:11:51.130 ⇒ 00:11:51.810 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
112 00:11:52.610 ⇒ 00:11:55.970 Nicolas Sucari: But do you want to send like a screenshot of the goals and milestones.
113 00:11:57.390 ⇒ 00:11:59.049 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, I think we I guess.
114 00:11:59.050 ⇒ 00:11:59.919 Nicolas Sucari: And the link.
115 00:12:00.340 ⇒ 00:12:04.920 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, or send a link I mean, I don’t know. I would send. I could just. I would just send a screenshot
116 00:12:05.090 ⇒ 00:12:05.830 Uttam Kumaran: also.
117 00:12:05.830 ⇒ 00:12:06.460 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
118 00:12:07.200 ⇒ 00:12:09.660 Uttam Kumaran: Make it as easy as possible for them.
119 00:12:10.990 ⇒ 00:12:16.170 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, perfect. I’m gonna I’m gonna be working on that and send the kind of like
120 00:12:16.290 ⇒ 00:12:21.269 Nicolas Sucari: try to fit it into the same format. We send it last week because they like that.
121 00:12:21.593 ⇒ 00:12:24.880 Nicolas Sucari: But yeah, don’t worry. I’m gonna figure out how to send it.
122 00:12:26.449 ⇒ 00:12:27.649 Uttam Kumaran: Here, let me.
123 00:12:36.170 ⇒ 00:12:41.154 Uttam Kumaran: So for the interns there, a lot of them are. Ist.
124 00:12:42.340 ⇒ 00:12:47.549 Uttam Kumaran: So the one thing we’re gonna have to figure out is like time zone, a little bit.
125 00:12:48.663 ⇒ 00:12:52.209 Uttam Kumaran: But basically I will talk to them, and we’ll figure that out on Monday.
126 00:12:52.520 ⇒ 00:12:55.319 Uttam Kumaran: It may be that we have, like
127 00:12:55.500 ⇒ 00:12:57.189 Uttam Kumaran: some sort of planning stuff.
128 00:12:57.740 ⇒ 00:13:04.949 Uttam Kumaran: like I basically, or we already say, like, Hey you, we’re we’re you have to either work. You have to probably like try to work late
129 00:13:05.420 ⇒ 00:13:07.140 Uttam Kumaran: in the mornings, you know.
130 00:13:07.140 ⇒ 00:13:23.320 Nicolas Sucari: I mean, we we can. We can figure out different stuff if like. I don’t know like what would be like the 1st weeks for of them. Like, if they gonna be like doing learnings yeah, doing some exercise. And I pro probably they can work at any time. They we can do it like a synchronous
131 00:13:23.665 ⇒ 00:13:33.119 Nicolas Sucari: and we can obviously create like a a slack channel with them like just you, me and them so they can give us, like daily updates of what they’ve been doing.
132 00:13:33.411 ⇒ 00:13:45.688 Nicolas Sucari: And also, yeah, ask questions. And we can figure out how to answer there. If you want like to keep the communications, even though we are not like in the same time zones, so that we can keep the communications as fast as possible with them.
133 00:13:45.990 ⇒ 00:14:01.565 Nicolas Sucari: obviously, they working in a different time. Zone is kind of difficult sometimes, but I think like for the 1st weeks we can start like trying to do that. And then, obviously, if they want to like work late, it will be like super helpful for us.
134 00:14:02.560 ⇒ 00:14:05.139 Nicolas Sucari: I think. What’s what’s their time zone.
135 00:14:05.530 ⇒ 00:14:06.830 Uttam Kumaran: It’s ist
136 00:14:06.920 ⇒ 00:14:09.140 Uttam Kumaran: cause almost like Ryan’s time zone.
137 00:14:10.010 ⇒ 00:14:11.879 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah. IST.
138 00:14:12.110 ⇒ 00:14:14.410 Nicolas Sucari: Are in India. Where? Where? Where are they?
139 00:14:14.410 ⇒ 00:14:16.489 Uttam Kumaran: One is in Toronto.
140 00:14:16.840 ⇒ 00:14:18.130 Uttam Kumaran: and
141 00:14:18.140 ⇒ 00:14:19.910 Uttam Kumaran: the rest are in India.
142 00:14:20.900 ⇒ 00:14:23.180 Nicolas Sucari: Okay. So I think that.
143 00:14:23.890 ⇒ 00:14:29.950 Nicolas Sucari: well, hey, Steve? It’s not like, yeah, they will need to work from. I don’t know. 5 pm.
144 00:14:30.330 ⇒ 00:14:36.540 Nicolas Sucari: Something like that. It’s my. It’s my morning early morning, so I can like, be a little bit more.
145 00:14:36.931 ⇒ 00:14:43.570 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, close to them. If you want on that like, I will be able to answer at that time. Zone for them.
146 00:14:44.031 ⇒ 00:14:49.009 Nicolas Sucari: 5, 6 pm. But yeah, we should probably let them let them know that.
147 00:14:49.340 ⇒ 00:14:50.060 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
148 00:14:50.280 ⇒ 00:14:54.880 Nicolas Sucari: Because I’m I’m 2 h ahead of you. So yeah, I’m closer. A little bit more of that.
149 00:15:05.890 ⇒ 00:15:09.429 Nicolas Sucari: And what about Jared? Jared is, too, in that email. Okay?
150 00:15:09.530 ⇒ 00:15:10.240 Nicolas Sucari: Sorry.
151 00:15:10.440 ⇒ 00:15:12.776 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, Jeremy, do you think Toronto obviously.
152 00:15:32.940 ⇒ 00:15:40.179 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, the other thing that happened yesterday. I got a call from surf from Asset Link.
153 00:15:40.190 ⇒ 00:15:44.003 Uttam Kumaran: They’re going to be putting us on pause for a sec.
154 00:15:45.269 ⇒ 00:15:53.889 Uttam Kumaran: So big client that not the one that I send the email for, but the another one that was supposed to close that like.
155 00:15:53.980 ⇒ 00:15:56.191 Uttam Kumaran: looks like it’s gonna get delayed.
156 00:15:57.010 ⇒ 00:15:58.160 Uttam Kumaran: I didn’t want to mention.
157 00:15:58.160 ⇒ 00:15:58.660 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
158 00:15:58.660 ⇒ 00:16:02.133 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, cause it’s kind of like we’re gonna have to make some changes. But
159 00:16:03.300 ⇒ 00:16:12.829 Uttam Kumaran: for now that whole project is on pause, like, hopefully, like, you know, a month or 2, but I don’t really know honestly.
160 00:16:12.830 ⇒ 00:16:13.949 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, we don’t know.
161 00:16:14.855 ⇒ 00:16:15.760 Uttam Kumaran: So
162 00:16:16.330 ⇒ 00:16:20.171 Uttam Kumaran: I guess, like my gut reaction is
163 00:16:21.090 ⇒ 00:16:26.060 Uttam Kumaran: We’ll have to see where everyone fits. I mean, I think, Ryan.
164 00:16:26.290 ⇒ 00:16:29.690 Uttam Kumaran: looking at the kind of the what we I mean. I think it was good
165 00:16:29.880 ⇒ 00:16:33.359 Uttam Kumaran: on one side. I’m happy that we did what we did yesterday, cause this makes this
166 00:16:33.580 ⇒ 00:16:35.800 Uttam Kumaran: a little bit more manageable, however.
167 00:16:36.120 ⇒ 00:16:37.130 Uttam Kumaran: like
168 00:16:37.490 ⇒ 00:16:42.849 Uttam Kumaran: the pressure on me to go get sales is a lot higher now. So I really really need to go spend
169 00:16:43.110 ⇒ 00:16:45.008 Uttam Kumaran: like a ton of time on that
170 00:16:45.839 ⇒ 00:16:51.679 Uttam Kumaran: so a couple of things that I wanna really make sure happen
171 00:16:51.960 ⇒ 00:16:53.370 Uttam Kumaran: for this month.
172 00:16:54.013 ⇒ 00:17:00.430 Uttam Kumaran: Is like Brian and Ryan really need to own the modeling.
173 00:17:00.430 ⇒ 00:17:01.090 Nicolas Sucari: Full dice.
174 00:17:01.090 ⇒ 00:17:02.230 Uttam Kumaran: Or cool parts.
175 00:17:03.260 ⇒ 00:17:04.150 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
176 00:17:04.150 ⇒ 00:17:10.900 Uttam Kumaran: The second thing is Patrick is gonna have to continue to own all data engineering. Basically.
177 00:17:11.140 ⇒ 00:17:20.270 Uttam Kumaran: Augustine, I may have to just ask to finish up the the Unis thing and kind of just pause until.
178 00:17:20.270 ⇒ 00:17:20.970 Nicolas Sucari: Boss.
179 00:17:20.970 ⇒ 00:17:22.600 Uttam Kumaran: We have other work.
180 00:17:22.670 ⇒ 00:17:26.709 Uttam Kumaran: I know he’s currently basically just pause until we have
181 00:17:26.750 ⇒ 00:17:27.804 Uttam Kumaran: other stuff.
182 00:17:29.890 ⇒ 00:17:32.930 Uttam Kumaran: because it’s just not gonna work out cash wise.
183 00:17:34.490 ⇒ 00:17:36.040 Uttam Kumaran: so that’s the
184 00:17:36.450 ⇒ 00:17:38.200 Uttam Kumaran: I mean one hand. I’m glad.
185 00:17:38.460 ⇒ 00:17:43.379 Uttam Kumaran: because I was gonna meet with everybody on Monday, anyways, and have this conversation, but.
186 00:17:43.380 ⇒ 00:17:44.050 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
187 00:17:45.560 ⇒ 00:17:47.390 Uttam Kumaran: That’s gonna be the big change.
188 00:17:49.000 ⇒ 00:17:51.010 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, I understand, perfect.
189 00:17:51.010 ⇒ 00:17:53.452 Uttam Kumaran: On the on the positive side.
190 00:17:54.200 ⇒ 00:17:58.190 Uttam Kumaran: there’s a lot of there’s a lot of different leads that I’m chasing right now.
191 00:17:58.530 ⇒ 00:18:02.940 Uttam Kumaran: and I’ve been doing that with maybe like an hour or 2 per day.
192 00:18:02.970 ⇒ 00:18:10.960 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s the thing is like, I really need some like large blocks of time to go push on those and like, Go make some phone calls
193 00:18:12.900 ⇒ 00:18:15.090 Uttam Kumaran: And so I think for me
194 00:18:15.300 ⇒ 00:18:21.050 Uttam Kumaran: every day I’ll kind of message you to being like, was this a good or bad day like? So that’s the thing.
195 00:18:21.100 ⇒ 00:18:25.570 Uttam Kumaran: Ideally, we get. Today’s where it’s like cool. I’m able to focus most of my time on that
196 00:18:26.665 ⇒ 00:18:27.350 Uttam Kumaran: yeah.
197 00:18:28.875 ⇒ 00:18:29.610 Nicolas Sucari: Perfect.
198 00:18:29.610 ⇒ 00:18:36.861 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I would. I would say, I’m not really that worried cause. There’s a couple of things that I’m pretty sure are gonna close and
199 00:18:37.340 ⇒ 00:18:44.000 Uttam Kumaran: again, like I’m gonna kind of turn on a lot of different stuff on the sales side. At the same time, like
200 00:18:44.070 ⇒ 00:18:50.284 Uttam Kumaran: they’re like only one of our 3 clients. So it’s definitely like a thing we gotta push for. So I think
201 00:18:50.690 ⇒ 00:18:52.815 Uttam Kumaran: let’s make it happen. I think.
202 00:18:54.550 ⇒ 00:19:04.552 Uttam Kumaran: I think. Wait. I told Ryan to just like halt on work. I didn’t mention anything. Maybe we’ll just wait to talk to everybody on Monday. I don’t really wanna do anything right now on Friday.
203 00:19:04.830 ⇒ 00:19:05.470 Nicolas Sucari: Oh, great!
204 00:19:05.980 ⇒ 00:19:07.120 Uttam Kumaran: So
205 00:19:08.290 ⇒ 00:19:15.573 Uttam Kumaran: I think we can. Basically, we’ll we can. We could just leave the stand up there for now cancel on Monday, and then
206 00:19:16.280 ⇒ 00:19:17.050 Uttam Kumaran: kind of.
207 00:19:17.470 ⇒ 00:19:29.569 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’m not gonna cancel anything today. But yeah, probably we we can cancel the one the pool 1st to go stand up and just leave the one that says Friday brain for today.
208 00:19:29.803 ⇒ 00:19:31.440 Uttam Kumaran: Hey? Let’s wait for us, I think.
209 00:19:31.440 ⇒ 00:19:35.079 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, so that we can have, like, only one with the entire team.
210 00:19:35.080 ⇒ 00:19:36.850 Uttam Kumaran: Let’s do that. Yeah.
211 00:19:37.510 ⇒ 00:19:44.930 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, done. And then we have today, like the brain Forge and Unis meeting with ours and Justine from Eunice.
212 00:19:44.930 ⇒ 00:19:45.260 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
213 00:19:45.662 ⇒ 00:19:47.360 Nicolas Sucari: So yeah, I’m gonna try to
214 00:19:47.430 ⇒ 00:19:48.890 Nicolas Sucari: make. I was like.
215 00:19:49.060 ⇒ 00:19:56.190 Nicolas Sucari: yeah, push that and try to close that stuff so that on Monday we can see where we are standing, that for that. And we can yeah.
216 00:19:56.490 ⇒ 00:20:00.010 Nicolas Sucari: have the meeting with him. Or, yeah, as soon as you wish. Okay.
217 00:20:00.010 ⇒ 00:20:00.980 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, perfect.
218 00:20:01.680 ⇒ 00:20:13.059 Nicolas Sucari: According to contracts. And that stuff do you have like a close or something in the contract that says, like, we need like some anticipation on like ending something, or putting a pause.
219 00:20:13.180 ⇒ 00:20:14.189 Nicolas Sucari: or like that.
220 00:20:14.190 ⇒ 00:20:15.367 Uttam Kumaran: In terms of
221 00:20:16.520 ⇒ 00:20:17.110 Uttam Kumaran: in terms of.
222 00:20:17.110 ⇒ 00:20:20.709 Nicolas Sucari: Like we need like 2 weeks notice like, if it will.
223 00:20:20.710 ⇒ 00:20:21.979 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, at the moment, it’s like.
224 00:20:21.980 ⇒ 00:20:22.530 Nicolas Sucari: Right, David.
225 00:20:22.530 ⇒ 00:20:26.670 Uttam Kumaran: It’s I think it’s just immediate. I mean, we’re certainly. We’ll get paid for this.
226 00:20:27.070 ⇒ 00:20:27.910 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
227 00:20:28.270 ⇒ 00:20:29.110 Uttam Kumaran: But
228 00:20:30.410 ⇒ 00:20:33.509 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, at the moment I think it’s currently just like
229 00:20:33.670 ⇒ 00:20:36.620 Uttam Kumaran: it could be ended. I I think you should double check.
230 00:20:37.120 ⇒ 00:20:37.755 Uttam Kumaran: But
231 00:20:38.390 ⇒ 00:20:38.810 Nicolas Sucari: No.
232 00:20:38.810 ⇒ 00:20:39.759 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, it’s just.
233 00:20:39.760 ⇒ 00:20:59.899 Nicolas Sucari: Just an idea, and something that I know that some some sometimes happen. Because, yeah, my previous work was also something like this we were with start up some. If they don’t get like the the money that they were trying to raise, they were gonna cancel the contract, but sometimes like using that kind of stuff. Obviously, you need like to.
234 00:21:00.184 ⇒ 00:21:13.535 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, be okay with the client. And the client needs to be okay with that. But if you want like you can. I don’t know who works with you on the legal staff or kind of the culture, but you can try to like discuss that, and.
235 00:21:13.820 ⇒ 00:21:16.530 Uttam Kumaran: Minimum of like a month in advance, or something.
236 00:21:16.530 ⇒ 00:21:22.470 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, probably probably a month, for what we are doing is like a lot. I don’t know. I’m I’m really don’t know. I’m just speaking of a month.
237 00:21:22.470 ⇒ 00:21:28.254 Uttam Kumaran: No, no, I should actually look cause. Yeah, I don’t know what we put on the contract. My feeling is that
238 00:21:28.810 ⇒ 00:21:30.110 Uttam Kumaran: had it at.
239 00:21:30.840 ⇒ 00:21:36.164 Uttam Kumaran: Actually, I don’t know. I I now that I think about I maybe I did ask them to do that, so I should double check
240 00:21:36.590 ⇒ 00:21:37.630 Nicolas Sucari: It’s a double check. Yeah.
241 00:21:37.630 ⇒ 00:21:42.559 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. And then the the thing is like on the on the Ca, on the employee side.
242 00:21:42.580 ⇒ 00:21:49.509 Uttam Kumaran: The one clause that’s in there is. Everybody gets paid after the client pays, which has helped a little bit for
243 00:21:49.700 ⇒ 00:22:02.100 Uttam Kumaran: cash. Ideally, I I don’t. I kind of want it all to be on autopilot. But this thing I kind of like knew. It happens again, like the only clients that we’ve had lose are when they
244 00:22:02.240 ⇒ 00:22:09.240 Uttam Kumaran: have had issues right. But it. I think again, this just continues to put the pressure on the clients we do have, we really need to nail?
245 00:22:09.300 ⇒ 00:22:10.580 Uttam Kumaran: And then
246 00:22:10.670 ⇒ 00:22:15.920 Uttam Kumaran: again, I I like the one thing I’m gonna constantly repeat is like I have to be able to take
247 00:22:16.160 ⇒ 00:22:18.210 Uttam Kumaran: like half days and go
248 00:22:18.420 ⇒ 00:22:19.260 Uttam Kumaran: just you know.
249 00:22:19.260 ⇒ 00:22:19.880 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, yeah.
250 00:22:19.880 ⇒ 00:22:24.170 Uttam Kumaran: Take calls and and and focus on, follow ups, cause that works.
251 00:22:24.170 ⇒ 00:22:24.520 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
252 00:22:24.520 ⇒ 00:22:27.231 Uttam Kumaran: Totally different. It’s like a totally different game.
253 00:22:28.493 ⇒ 00:22:29.100 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t.
254 00:22:29.790 ⇒ 00:22:33.194 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s the that’s the thing.
255 00:22:33.620 ⇒ 00:22:41.030 Nicolas Sucari: No, no, that’s totally fine, and I know it’s a startup. And this kind of thing happened. But yeah, I’m totally fine with it. I mean.
256 00:22:41.030 ⇒ 00:22:41.440 Uttam Kumaran: But.
257 00:22:41.440 ⇒ 00:22:45.020 Nicolas Sucari: I, I’m gonna try to help you like how we can. Yeah.
258 00:22:45.050 ⇒ 00:22:49.689 Nicolas Sucari: get more clients. And we standardize more the way we’re working so that we can nail more
259 00:22:49.710 ⇒ 00:22:51.849 Nicolas Sucari: work for those clients. Of course.
260 00:22:53.200 ⇒ 00:22:54.460 Uttam Kumaran: Cool, perfect. So
261 00:22:55.490 ⇒ 00:23:00.339 Uttam Kumaran: let’s keep that as an item on for Monday. The big thing that
262 00:23:00.540 ⇒ 00:23:03.861 Uttam Kumaran: I guess we have 30 min now.
263 00:23:06.240 ⇒ 00:23:14.370 Uttam Kumaran: what do we want to do? We want to just go into anything in particular. I guess we don’t have to do the asset link objectives.
264 00:23:14.440 ⇒ 00:23:17.360 Uttam Kumaran: and we’re kind of waiting on the
265 00:23:17.840 ⇒ 00:23:19.920 Uttam Kumaran: Stella objective. Stella.
266 00:23:20.050 ⇒ 00:23:20.670 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
267 00:23:22.276 ⇒ 00:23:25.049 Uttam Kumaran: So it’s really just just the pool parts.
268 00:23:27.676 ⇒ 00:23:31.710 Uttam Kumaran: I have like we. I have like, I have some.
269 00:23:32.560 ⇒ 00:23:36.060 Uttam Kumaran: I have some work to do on the shipping side, like engineering, wise
270 00:23:36.370 ⇒ 00:23:37.839 Uttam Kumaran: to try to close out today.
271 00:23:37.840 ⇒ 00:23:38.759 Nicolas Sucari: Great if you want. Yeah.
272 00:23:38.914 ⇒ 00:23:39.530 Uttam Kumaran: I just do that.
273 00:23:39.530 ⇒ 00:23:40.499 Nicolas Sucari: If you want, if you.
274 00:23:41.240 ⇒ 00:23:42.070 Uttam Kumaran: Basically after the user.
275 00:23:42.070 ⇒ 00:23:42.440 Nicolas Sucari: You need.
276 00:23:42.440 ⇒ 00:23:46.040 Uttam Kumaran: I’m like all yours to run through backlog.
277 00:23:46.710 ⇒ 00:24:01.580 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, yeah, perfect. Yeah. Go for it. Don’t worry. I don’t wanna be able to occur on that. So yeah, go for it. And we can discuss after Eunice. And we can yeah, spend like an hour or 2 going through the backlink and see what we can work with that. Okay.
278 00:24:01.580 ⇒ 00:24:08.900 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna follow up with with with Robert, too, on if the Stella renewal got completed, and like where we’re at with that.
279 00:24:10.020 ⇒ 00:24:18.799 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah. And I think for pool parts. What we need also is after, like our meeting today with the backlog, we need to schedule for next week a meeting with Kim.
280 00:24:19.212 ⇒ 00:24:21.870 Nicolas Sucari: I think it will be like useful to
281 00:24:22.000 ⇒ 00:24:32.216 Nicolas Sucari: get on a call with her and try to discuss how she’s working. And what if she needs anything else? Also I try to understand requirements, not only from Ben and Dan, but also from.
282 00:24:32.500 ⇒ 00:24:36.999 Uttam Kumaran: Kim is gonna be much. Yeah. It’s like Dan is gonna be like
283 00:24:37.480 ⇒ 00:24:44.009 Uttam Kumaran: he doesn’t. Even he just like runs a business from phone. Probably Ben is like looking at 10 different things, but honestly, is like
284 00:24:44.900 ⇒ 00:24:52.069 Uttam Kumaran: just doing too much that he’s like talk to one of these people so frankly, we should try to have meetings with Kim
285 00:24:52.350 ⇒ 00:25:00.710 Uttam Kumaran: Cody and Chuck. They’re the 3 like really like lieutenant people, but I really want to try to get embedded with and try to make their lives easier.
286 00:25:00.730 ⇒ 00:25:08.339 Uttam Kumaran: And this work all all downstream to them. And then we basically kinda like, got the whole funnel. I’m also gonna try and go to New York
287 00:25:10.100 ⇒ 00:25:11.819 Uttam Kumaran: sometime next month
288 00:25:12.667 ⇒ 00:25:16.822 Uttam Kumaran: to go basically meet these guys go meet Devon.
289 00:25:17.549 ⇒ 00:25:21.499 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll go. Say, go see Robert, I have some sales stuff so
290 00:25:22.040 ⇒ 00:25:22.890 Uttam Kumaran: like
291 00:25:23.370 ⇒ 00:25:24.270 Uttam Kumaran: that’s kind of like, you know.
292 00:25:24.270 ⇒ 00:25:25.239 Nicolas Sucari: Okay. I’m I’m.
293 00:25:25.240 ⇒ 00:25:26.439 Uttam Kumaran: Ramping up 4. So.
294 00:25:26.440 ⇒ 00:25:27.020 Nicolas Sucari: But you
295 00:25:27.510 ⇒ 00:25:32.219 Nicolas Sucari: that’s great. I’m do, I? I think you know. But I’m going to Miami on July.
296 00:25:33.040 ⇒ 00:25:33.470 Uttam Kumaran: When.
297 00:25:33.470 ⇒ 00:25:34.270 Nicolas Sucari: I’m going to be.
298 00:25:34.960 ⇒ 00:25:35.840 Nicolas Sucari: From the
299 00:25:35.860 ⇒ 00:25:39.889 Nicolas Sucari: second of July until the 14th of July. Yeah, I’m gonna be there.
300 00:25:40.439 ⇒ 00:25:54.090 Nicolas Sucari: I’m gonna be working. Obviously, I’m not gonna take holidays or vacations or anything but if you like, need me to go to like, know some clients or anything, just let me know. Obviously I can go.
301 00:25:54.270 ⇒ 00:25:56.829 Nicolas Sucari: I can prepare speech or anything. But yeah.
302 00:25:57.150 ⇒ 00:25:58.357 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, let me
303 00:25:59.810 ⇒ 00:26:01.809 Uttam Kumaran: Let me tell you also, May.
304 00:26:02.180 ⇒ 00:26:04.840 Uttam Kumaran: and you actually may be able to come
305 00:26:05.400 ⇒ 00:26:10.350 Uttam Kumaran: here to Austin. Let me think about it. I just wanna make sure what my schedule is like.
306 00:26:10.630 ⇒ 00:26:17.179 Uttam Kumaran: It may. Yeah. It may work out that you can even come here and spend some time here, and we can work together.
307 00:26:18.160 ⇒ 00:26:29.327 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, I’m going with some friends there. But yeah, of course, sure, like, I can go like a day or 2 if you want to Austin, spend some time there. If you want. Yeah, we can figure it out.
308 00:26:29.600 ⇒ 00:26:30.620 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Awesome.
309 00:26:31.680 ⇒ 00:26:32.540 Nicolas Sucari: Excellent.
310 00:26:33.690 ⇒ 00:26:34.960 Uttam Kumaran: Alright well.
311 00:26:34.960 ⇒ 00:26:37.150 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, I leave. I leave you. Yeah.
312 00:26:37.600 ⇒ 00:26:44.280 Nicolas Sucari: Let me know if you need anything else. Okay, I’ll be working with some stuff here at notion, too trying to figure out a little bit more stuff
313 00:26:44.290 ⇒ 00:26:45.782 Nicolas Sucari: for pool parts.
314 00:26:46.580 ⇒ 00:27:05.939 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. Maybe, like, whatever whatever you feel comfortable with that, shoot it off to them. That way. They have a little bit of time to digest I don’t expect them to send anything back, but they may just like literally read something really quick and send something, but I also think it’s good to get. This is what we’re gonna be talking about. So yeah.
315 00:27:05.940 ⇒ 00:27:13.539 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah. The only thing that I that like was I was trying to close this week was the Nda stuff, because they were like a little bit.
316 00:27:13.540 ⇒ 00:27:14.010 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, try that.
317 00:27:14.010 ⇒ 00:27:16.829 Nicolas Sucari: But yeah, he didn’t answer, Yeah, yeah.
318 00:27:17.033 ⇒ 00:27:17.440 Uttam Kumaran: Sleep and.
319 00:27:17.440 ⇒ 00:27:18.519 Nicolas Sucari: Anything about that.
320 00:27:19.550 ⇒ 00:27:21.990 Uttam Kumaran: Let me. I’ll text Ben about it. See?
321 00:27:22.190 ⇒ 00:27:26.749 Nicolas Sucari: Don’t worry. I I mean it. Just we. We can just wait. I mean, it’s it’s on their side right now.
322 00:27:26.750 ⇒ 00:27:27.810 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, okay.
323 00:27:28.830 ⇒ 00:27:29.790 Uttam Kumaran: But thank you. Adam.
324 00:27:29.790 ⇒ 00:27:32.250 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, talk to you later. Bye, bye.