Meeting Title: Nico <> Uttam - Weekly-Check-Ins Date: 2024-08-26 Meeting participants: Nicolas Sucari, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:01:38.190 ⇒ 00:01:39.039 Nicolas Sucari: Hey? You, Tom?
2 00:01:41.420 ⇒ 00:01:42.569 Uttam Kumaran: Hey? Nico! Good morning.
3 00:01:43.440 ⇒ 00:01:45.110 Nicolas Sucari: Good morning. How are you.
4 00:01:45.110 ⇒ 00:01:46.420 Uttam Kumaran: Hey? Good! How are you?
5 00:01:48.060 ⇒ 00:01:49.000 Nicolas Sucari: All good.
6 00:01:50.250 ⇒ 00:01:51.170 Uttam Kumaran: How’s the weekend.
7 00:01:52.360 ⇒ 00:01:53.700 Nicolas Sucari: Was nice
8 00:01:54.430 ⇒ 00:02:01.419 Nicolas Sucari: The weather here last week was like raining all day, and finally yesterday was a sunny day.
9 00:02:01.420 ⇒ 00:02:02.080 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, nice!
10 00:02:02.080 ⇒ 00:02:04.880 Nicolas Sucari: Really cold, really cold, but sunny.
11 00:02:05.250 ⇒ 00:02:06.209 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Good.
12 00:02:07.110 ⇒ 00:02:08.509 Nicolas Sucari: How was your weekend.
13 00:02:08.680 ⇒ 00:02:10.889 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, weekend was good. It was relaxing.
14 00:02:10.949 ⇒ 00:02:12.430 Uttam Kumaran: Just had some
15 00:02:12.680 ⇒ 00:02:15.710 Uttam Kumaran: friends come over for dinner on Friday, and then
16 00:02:16.800 ⇒ 00:02:17.380 Nicolas Sucari: Nice.
17 00:02:17.630 ⇒ 00:02:20.359 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I just went for like a long walk and
18 00:02:20.670 ⇒ 00:02:24.109 Uttam Kumaran: cleaned up my house and stuff like that. So relaxing weekend.
19 00:02:25.940 ⇒ 00:02:26.830 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
20 00:02:30.480 ⇒ 00:02:32.828 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, this week should be good.
21 00:02:33.810 ⇒ 00:02:38.540 Uttam Kumaran: I have a couple of things today that I need to work on this morning.
22 00:02:39.238 ⇒ 00:02:43.511 Uttam Kumaran: So I don’t. I don’t know if I’m gonna make the ae meeting.
23 00:02:45.903 ⇒ 00:02:49.350 Uttam Kumaran: I have some stuff to work on for a sales pitch.
24 00:02:50.311 ⇒ 00:02:53.609 Uttam Kumaran: That’s kind of due this afternoon. So
25 00:02:53.720 ⇒ 00:02:56.078 Uttam Kumaran: just wanna crank that out.
26 00:02:56.670 ⇒ 00:02:59.650 Uttam Kumaran: I think the big things from my side. So one is.
27 00:02:59.800 ⇒ 00:03:05.410 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I’m starting to use like the notion tasks a little bit better. So all of my stuff is in there.
28 00:03:05.840 ⇒ 00:03:11.609 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know if you want to add your stuff, or you have another process, that’s whatever. But
29 00:03:11.640 ⇒ 00:03:14.519 Uttam Kumaran: I think it’s kind of starting to work for me. So
30 00:03:14.960 ⇒ 00:03:15.569 Uttam Kumaran: I’m starting to.
31 00:03:15.570 ⇒ 00:03:16.070 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, okay.
32 00:03:16.070 ⇒ 00:03:17.180 Uttam Kumaran: That’s a thrown out.
33 00:03:17.690 ⇒ 00:03:20.400 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, I think I’m gonna add what I have there.
34 00:03:20.540 ⇒ 00:03:23.039 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I want to make it easy, like, yeah.
35 00:03:23.230 ⇒ 00:03:27.369 Uttam Kumaran: I kind of don’t care too much about that being like
36 00:03:27.520 ⇒ 00:03:29.150 Uttam Kumaran: super organized
37 00:03:30.022 ⇒ 00:03:32.199 Uttam Kumaran: because it’s mainly for us just to like
38 00:03:32.660 ⇒ 00:03:34.070 Uttam Kumaran: track to dos.
39 00:03:35.220 ⇒ 00:03:37.050 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. But also.
40 00:03:37.420 ⇒ 00:03:42.340 Uttam Kumaran: like the one thing about that’s good about tracking those to dos is like over time.
41 00:03:42.460 ⇒ 00:03:45.509 Uttam Kumaran: you know. We’ll kind of see where the where our time is going.
42 00:03:45.870 ⇒ 00:03:49.629 Uttam Kumaran: and then, if we need to bring on other other people, or like, start to
43 00:03:49.710 ⇒ 00:03:52.030 Uttam Kumaran: hand stuff off. It’s clear
44 00:03:52.170 ⇒ 00:03:54.709 Uttam Kumaran: like what we’re doing in the week. So that’s for me.
45 00:03:54.940 ⇒ 00:03:59.530 Uttam Kumaran: kind of why I’m doing it mainly so I can kind of track where my time’s going, and then
46 00:03:59.680 ⇒ 00:04:00.560 Uttam Kumaran: see
47 00:04:01.800 ⇒ 00:04:04.479 Uttam Kumaran: like where we’re falling behind. So
48 00:04:04.900 ⇒ 00:04:06.644 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna do that
49 00:04:07.600 ⇒ 00:04:11.180 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, the the big thing on pool parts is like.
50 00:04:12.026 ⇒ 00:04:15.589 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I think he was just having some issues with his machine.
51 00:04:15.710 ⇒ 00:04:17.170 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t mind
52 00:04:17.519 ⇒ 00:04:19.460 Uttam Kumaran: getting him a laptop
53 00:04:19.680 ⇒ 00:04:22.090 Uttam Kumaran: like something cheap if we need to.
54 00:04:22.420 ⇒ 00:04:25.180 Uttam Kumaran: but I just don’t have time to meet with them today.
55 00:04:25.450 ⇒ 00:04:27.540 Uttam Kumaran: So if you can just like, let me know what
56 00:04:28.110 ⇒ 00:04:32.009 Uttam Kumaran: the decision is, I’m pretty sure that’s gonna be the decision cause he was like
57 00:04:32.120 ⇒ 00:04:34.849 Uttam Kumaran: just not working on his PC. And
58 00:04:35.040 ⇒ 00:04:36.490 Uttam Kumaran: it works on
59 00:04:37.350 ⇒ 00:04:40.369 Uttam Kumaran: like he said. His wife has a macbook, and it worked
60 00:04:40.490 ⇒ 00:04:41.630 Uttam Kumaran: so.
61 00:04:41.860 ⇒ 00:04:42.460 Uttam Kumaran: But.
62 00:04:42.867 ⇒ 00:04:53.459 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, I think the the issue is that he has like a new surface computer with data architecture. And really, that does not support that
63 00:04:53.917 ⇒ 00:05:02.610 Nicolas Sucari: I was reading the messages from that channel. They say they were all they were. Gonna look internally if they can
64 00:05:02.760 ⇒ 00:05:07.129 Nicolas Sucari: have like any solution to that. But come back this week
65 00:05:07.180 ⇒ 00:05:10.780 Nicolas Sucari: with the news. But I don’t know if we want to wait for that.
66 00:05:10.780 ⇒ 00:05:13.190 Uttam Kumaran: I would rather him just go get a laptop
67 00:05:13.690 ⇒ 00:05:14.990 Uttam Kumaran: like today.
68 00:05:15.380 ⇒ 00:05:17.959 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, and start working.
69 00:05:19.560 ⇒ 00:05:22.250 Uttam Kumaran: So the thing is, I just don’t know what to get him.
70 00:05:23.248 ⇒ 00:05:24.960 Uttam Kumaran: But like something cheap.
71 00:05:25.320 ⇒ 00:05:30.709 Uttam Kumaran: you just cause it’s mainly going to be for data stuff like, I don’t think I can get a Mac. But
72 00:05:30.770 ⇒ 00:05:33.099 Uttam Kumaran: probably PC, that’s something that works.
73 00:05:33.780 ⇒ 00:05:34.649 Nicolas Sucari: Is there aside of.
74 00:05:34.650 ⇒ 00:05:35.979 Uttam Kumaran: Processor and stuff
75 00:05:36.340 ⇒ 00:05:37.129 Uttam Kumaran: need to know.
76 00:05:37.130 ⇒ 00:05:38.920 Nicolas Sucari: Quick research. Yeah, I mean.
77 00:05:38.920 ⇒ 00:05:43.890 Uttam Kumaran: He like he can. He can also share, like what stores there’s like a best buy, or if there’s
78 00:05:44.080 ⇒ 00:05:47.100 Uttam Kumaran: some store near him, he can go by, and I can reimburse him.
79 00:05:47.946 ⇒ 00:05:49.980 Uttam Kumaran: I just want him to get started on that.
80 00:05:50.920 ⇒ 00:05:54.180 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, perfect. Yeah, I’m gonna meet with suresh
81 00:05:54.290 ⇒ 00:05:55.940 Nicolas Sucari: after this meeting. Probably.
82 00:05:57.190 ⇒ 00:05:57.970 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool.
83 00:06:00.110 ⇒ 00:06:01.775 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, for Stella.
84 00:06:03.750 ⇒ 00:06:07.140 Uttam Kumaran: yeah. Stella should be kind of like all good. I think
85 00:06:07.350 ⇒ 00:06:09.260 Uttam Kumaran: nothing much. There. I think
86 00:06:09.760 ⇒ 00:06:12.859 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna see if we can get on the phone with Nick.
87 00:06:13.080 ⇒ 00:06:15.230 Uttam Kumaran: I kind of want to do a regroup with him
88 00:06:15.490 ⇒ 00:06:17.360 Uttam Kumaran: this week, just like chat about
89 00:06:17.650 ⇒ 00:06:20.719 Uttam Kumaran: other projects going and like, see anything else we want to do.
90 00:06:21.260 ⇒ 00:06:21.890 Uttam Kumaran: Okay?
91 00:06:22.940 ⇒ 00:06:24.070 Uttam Kumaran: And then
92 00:06:24.570 ⇒ 00:06:27.449 Uttam Kumaran: Patrick and Abigail are helping me with sales stuff.
93 00:06:28.076 ⇒ 00:06:31.520 Uttam Kumaran: I’m working directly with them. We have a meeting today, and then
94 00:06:31.590 ⇒ 00:06:33.129 Uttam Kumaran: another meeting tomorrow.
95 00:06:36.400 ⇒ 00:06:38.469 Uttam Kumaran: yeah. Website stuff.
96 00:06:38.800 ⇒ 00:06:43.930 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know. I’m not sure whether we’ll use Jp next month. It’s just not responding like.
97 00:06:44.220 ⇒ 00:06:44.580 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
98 00:06:44.580 ⇒ 00:06:46.000 Uttam Kumaran: Were often.
99 00:06:46.200 ⇒ 00:06:48.490 Uttam Kumaran: It’s pretty. It’s kind of difficult to
100 00:06:48.760 ⇒ 00:06:50.660 Uttam Kumaran: to work with, so.
101 00:06:50.660 ⇒ 00:06:51.300 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
102 00:06:51.300 ⇒ 00:06:52.610 Uttam Kumaran: I’m going to kind of
103 00:06:53.030 ⇒ 00:06:54.954 Uttam Kumaran: see what we can do.
104 00:06:56.070 ⇒ 00:06:58.970 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s that’s that. And then
105 00:07:00.090 ⇒ 00:07:01.170 Uttam Kumaran: what else?
106 00:07:01.540 ⇒ 00:07:10.630 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think pool parts stuff. It’s mainly focused on getting Siraj going, and then looks like Chuck is working directly with Justin on everything else.
107 00:07:10.680 ⇒ 00:07:11.430 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah,
108 00:07:12.830 ⇒ 00:07:15.389 Uttam Kumaran: so that’s all good. And then I think
109 00:07:15.580 ⇒ 00:07:17.589 Uttam Kumaran: the biggest thing for Ryan.
110 00:07:18.030 ⇒ 00:07:20.071 Uttam Kumaran: It’s just like there’s some
111 00:07:20.830 ⇒ 00:07:21.960 Uttam Kumaran: There’s some
112 00:07:22.220 ⇒ 00:07:24.610 Uttam Kumaran: workflow failures that are happening.
113 00:07:25.310 ⇒ 00:07:28.700 Uttam Kumaran: I just wanna make sure that he’s he’s on top of that. So
114 00:07:29.180 ⇒ 00:07:31.190 Uttam Kumaran: if you end up chatting with them today.
115 00:07:31.790 ⇒ 00:07:32.500 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, I’m gonna.
116 00:07:32.500 ⇒ 00:07:34.220 Uttam Kumaran: Some failures that you can look at.
117 00:07:35.300 ⇒ 00:07:36.080 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
118 00:07:40.844 ⇒ 00:07:49.089 Nicolas Sucari: I want Ryan to look at that, and also about what? He mentioned last week that we have some measures that
119 00:07:49.220 ⇒ 00:07:51.999 Nicolas Sucari: are not like reflecting, actually.
120 00:07:52.320 ⇒ 00:07:57.260 Nicolas Sucari: like some values that she was expecting. And yeah, we need to look into that
121 00:07:57.270 ⇒ 00:07:58.809 Nicolas Sucari: to see if we are doing
122 00:07:58.880 ⇒ 00:08:01.729 Nicolas Sucari: the calculations right? So yeah.
123 00:08:02.310 ⇒ 00:08:07.280 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, any anything that’s that he’s doing on that just make sure to loop Sirraj in.
124 00:08:07.310 ⇒ 00:08:09.649 Uttam Kumaran: and that they can both work on that together.
125 00:08:10.030 ⇒ 00:08:16.400 Uttam Kumaran: because Snowflake at least will work. And so I want anything that’s happening in pool parts. I want him to be involved
126 00:08:16.490 ⇒ 00:08:18.840 Uttam Kumaran: that he’s not just sitting there kind of waiting.
127 00:08:19.040 ⇒ 00:08:21.340 Uttam Kumaran: So just loop him in on everything. Yeah.
128 00:08:21.780 ⇒ 00:08:23.854 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, I can. I can probably
129 00:08:24.430 ⇒ 00:08:29.139 Nicolas Sucari: send the invitation to suresh to that meeting to the Ae. Meeting
130 00:08:29.608 ⇒ 00:08:41.799 Nicolas Sucari: probably go with everything that’s pending for ballparks, or what the task that we need to do. One just ask them to. Yeah, maybe Siraj can go and review on on Snowflake and then
131 00:08:41.909 ⇒ 00:08:45.159 Nicolas Sucari: ask Ryan if we need any change for real, for now.
132 00:08:45.800 ⇒ 00:08:47.739 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, like, ideally, they can just work.
133 00:08:47.880 ⇒ 00:08:49.870 Uttam Kumaran: They’re gonna work together on that. So.
134 00:08:50.720 ⇒ 00:08:52.069 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, perfect.
135 00:08:53.070 ⇒ 00:08:53.860 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
136 00:08:53.860 ⇒ 00:08:58.959 Uttam Kumaran: So I think the big thing is like big thing. This week is just making sure sirage is is going like
137 00:08:59.000 ⇒ 00:09:01.650 Uttam Kumaran: as close to 100% as possible. And then.
138 00:09:03.840 ⇒ 00:09:05.929 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I think Ryan will just play back up
139 00:09:06.140 ⇒ 00:09:07.680 Uttam Kumaran: on pool parts. Yeah.
140 00:09:09.770 ⇒ 00:09:13.130 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, it’ll be another really big sales week. But this should be really good.
141 00:09:13.490 ⇒ 00:09:16.270 Uttam Kumaran: We should have like a bunch of stuff going out
142 00:09:16.430 ⇒ 00:09:18.049 Uttam Kumaran: by Wednesday this week
143 00:09:18.060 ⇒ 00:09:20.320 Uttam Kumaran: on the sales side, which is really good.
144 00:09:20.570 ⇒ 00:09:21.449 Uttam Kumaran: And then,
145 00:09:22.160 ⇒ 00:09:26.389 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, Miguel should be back and like, kind of helping on the automation stuff.
146 00:09:26.420 ⇒ 00:09:29.549 Uttam Kumaran: The Zoom Meeting automation seems to be working really well.
147 00:09:30.150 ⇒ 00:09:32.669 Uttam Kumaran: And they’re getting put into notion.
148 00:09:34.760 ⇒ 00:09:36.973 Uttam Kumaran: So I think the biggest thing is
149 00:09:37.900 ⇒ 00:09:44.109 Uttam Kumaran: just seeing like where we can find improvements to that. But I’m I’m actually using that like very commonly.
150 00:09:44.320 ⇒ 00:09:46.580 Uttam Kumaran: 1st off. So
151 00:09:46.760 ⇒ 00:09:49.369 Uttam Kumaran: I think that it’s working well. And then
152 00:09:49.570 ⇒ 00:09:53.050 Uttam Kumaran: and I’m gonna see what else he can work on ideally, it’s just
153 00:09:53.150 ⇒ 00:09:55.149 Uttam Kumaran: more automations like that. So.
154 00:09:56.090 ⇒ 00:10:02.700 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, yeah, yeah. I think my 1st meeting is the Ae planning session. And I’m gonna see if
155 00:10:02.830 ⇒ 00:10:11.390 Nicolas Sucari: that flow is working for me, too, because last week after we set up that for my zoom account I didn’t have. I didn’t own like one of those meetings.
156 00:10:11.390 ⇒ 00:10:12.460 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, okay. Okay.
157 00:10:12.460 ⇒ 00:10:15.000 Nicolas Sucari: Poly. Yeah, I’m gonna try that one today.
158 00:10:15.760 ⇒ 00:10:16.530 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Cool.
159 00:10:17.500 ⇒ 00:10:28.540 Nicolas Sucari: Okay and utam this week. We talked about last week about this tele weekly we’re meeting with Robert tomorrow, and you asked. Like to have like 1 h to meet with
160 00:10:28.570 ⇒ 00:10:34.071 Nicolas Sucari: Ryan and Patrick, maybe to discuss about the structure of the code.
161 00:10:34.530 ⇒ 00:10:35.260 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
162 00:10:35.790 ⇒ 00:10:40.699 Nicolas Sucari: Can we do it before the meeting with Robert? Do you think we can do that? Or.
163 00:10:40.700 ⇒ 00:10:44.490 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, let me let me coordinate with Nick today and see whether we can all
164 00:10:44.700 ⇒ 00:10:46.160 Uttam Kumaran: get on the phone.
165 00:10:47.030 ⇒ 00:10:50.409 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll I can organize that I forgot to do that last week. So.
166 00:10:51.240 ⇒ 00:10:55.270 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, yeah. I mean, I can set that up. I can set that meeting. But I
167 00:10:55.540 ⇒ 00:10:56.889 Nicolas Sucari: okay, let me know.
168 00:10:57.090 ⇒ 00:11:04.510 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, it it might be just quick. I’ll just see if Nick is free. It’ll probably just take like 30 min. So let me just, I’ll just message Jim, and then.
169 00:11:06.890 ⇒ 00:11:09.879 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, that should be good. I think the only other.
170 00:11:10.550 ⇒ 00:11:16.280 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. The one thing is like, if you have any free time. Look through the automation stuff and see if there’s anything there
171 00:11:16.340 ⇒ 00:11:17.780 Uttam Kumaran: that likes. Okay.
172 00:11:19.570 ⇒ 00:11:26.299 Uttam Kumaran: you know. Looks like there, there’s that needs any work on the biggest things I wanted to also do is like
173 00:11:26.929 ⇒ 00:11:31.600 Uttam Kumaran: start to take the notes and then summarize those. And then also
174 00:11:32.640 ⇒ 00:11:38.419 Uttam Kumaran: I needed some help on the sales side. So if not, I’m just gonna have Miguel help. So automation sales side. So
175 00:11:38.650 ⇒ 00:11:39.490 Uttam Kumaran: yeah.
176 00:11:39.490 ⇒ 00:11:40.110 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
177 00:11:40.730 ⇒ 00:11:42.440 Nicolas Sucari: yeah, okay, perfect.
178 00:11:43.100 ⇒ 00:11:56.389 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah. No. I think the automation side we were we. We have that for the meetings. And we were trying to do something with github tasks like creating, you know, automatically issues.
179 00:11:56.490 ⇒ 00:12:05.749 Nicolas Sucari: But I mean, that’s okay. I mean, that’s not so urgent. Probably if you need to work on sales side. I think that’s probably more important.
180 00:12:06.060 ⇒ 00:12:07.309 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, cool.
181 00:12:08.110 ⇒ 00:12:11.768 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. If you have any ideas, just throw them in there and then.
182 00:12:12.570 ⇒ 00:12:13.687 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I think,
183 00:12:14.190 ⇒ 00:12:22.310 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, let me know today, like again, like, if we don’t reach a resolution on sirage, that’s the only thing I really really want to make sure happens today. So.
184 00:12:23.060 ⇒ 00:12:28.659 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, I’m gonna try talking with him and see how we can solve that issue. And what options do we have.
185 00:12:28.780 ⇒ 00:12:29.370 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
186 00:12:30.490 ⇒ 00:12:31.130 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
187 00:12:31.130 ⇒ 00:12:31.920 Nicolas Sucari: Perfect.
188 00:12:33.110 ⇒ 00:12:38.479 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, thanks, Nico. I’ll be online. But I’m gonna be spending the next like few hours on some sales stuff. So
189 00:12:39.450 ⇒ 00:12:40.070 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
190 00:12:40.070 ⇒ 00:12:41.640 Uttam Kumaran: But let’s catch up this afternoon.
191 00:12:42.140 ⇒ 00:12:44.759 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, perfect. Thank you. Tom. Talk later.
192 00:12:44.760 ⇒ 00:12:46.580 Uttam Kumaran: Thank you. Talk soon. Bye.