Meeting Title: Weekly Managers Meeting Date: 2025-06-30 Meeting participants: Awaish Kumar, Hannah Wang, Uttam Kumaran, Amber Lin
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1 00:03:19.270 ⇒ 00:03:20.350 Amber Lin: Hello!
2 00:03:23.290 ⇒ 00:03:24.230 Hannah Wang: Hello!
3 00:03:25.900 ⇒ 00:03:26.640 Uttam Kumaran: Well.
4 00:03:28.920 ⇒ 00:03:33.489 Amber Lin: What are we talking about for this meeting? You said you were making the agendas.
5 00:03:35.895 ⇒ 00:03:39.080 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, we have several things that’s just waiting for everyone to get here.
6 00:03:39.380 ⇒ 00:03:40.010 Amber Lin: Okay.
7 00:04:54.130 ⇒ 00:05:00.171 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, let’s get started. So yeah, I think the 1st topic, really, I sent a couple of notes.
8 00:05:00.610 ⇒ 00:05:09.090 Uttam Kumaran: I think the 1st pass. Really, I think we spent Robert and I spent some time last week discussing a bunch, and I think we’re continuing to try to get
9 00:05:09.825 ⇒ 00:05:13.999 Uttam Kumaran: us on a path towards being able to run
10 00:05:14.160 ⇒ 00:05:21.520 Uttam Kumaran: sort of the business more sustainably. So I think we’ve been doing better.
11 00:05:21.650 ⇒ 00:05:24.249 Uttam Kumaran: But I did send a couple of
12 00:05:24.400 ⇒ 00:05:30.919 Uttam Kumaran: notes on couple of other things that I think we have the ability to change or prioritize further.
13 00:05:31.401 ⇒ 00:05:38.030 Uttam Kumaran: So I wanted this to see if everyone had a chance to read those. And if, like questions, or I should just
14 00:05:38.230 ⇒ 00:05:43.280 Uttam Kumaran: run through those again. Basically, I tried to create a list of
15 00:05:44.201 ⇒ 00:05:53.160 Uttam Kumaran: things that we’re gonna change things that I think we’re gonna stop. And then things that we’re going to do that aren’t haven’t already been tracked
16 00:05:54.270 ⇒ 00:05:54.670 Amber Lin: Okay.
17 00:05:54.670 ⇒ 00:06:01.250 Uttam Kumaran: The benefit of this is that I think we need to make a couple of more tougher decisions with time.
18 00:06:02.260 ⇒ 00:06:05.199 Uttam Kumaran: Then we’ve made in the past. I think we’ve
19 00:06:05.540 ⇒ 00:06:13.769 Uttam Kumaran: we reached I mean for me and my time. I think I’ve reached sort of a little bit of a breaking point on how much I can take on. And and this needs to reduce my other.
20 00:06:13.890 ⇒ 00:06:16.589 Uttam Kumaran: probably 20% or so before I can
21 00:06:16.990 ⇒ 00:06:23.440 Uttam Kumaran: sort of reasonably continue working on the business. So I sort of proposed those changes. I wanted to get a sense
22 00:06:24.100 ⇒ 00:06:25.610 Uttam Kumaran: from everybody on.
23 00:06:26.090 ⇒ 00:06:28.959 Uttam Kumaran: You know how it feels or any questions.
24 00:06:31.141 ⇒ 00:06:51.370 Amber Lin: I read it. The parts related to me were the time allocations. I’m I’m good. With that I scheduled a meeting so that me and wish and Rico can work on it. And then I think Monthly will present to you guys on what we decided for the allocation. So you guys don’t have to do it with us, but I want to keep you all informed.
25 00:06:53.430 ⇒ 00:07:00.399 Uttam Kumaran: Okay? Great, yeah. I think Rico is more than equipped to help there, I just think we really need to.
26 00:07:00.987 ⇒ 00:07:02.359 Uttam Kumaran: We need to
27 00:07:02.620 ⇒ 00:07:16.089 Uttam Kumaran: like. We just haven’t done that in a while. And like, I, I think I’m probably the bottleneck there. So I think if you guys 3, you guys have the best purview right now. Into what everybody is doing. I think that would be very helpful.
28 00:07:18.060 ⇒ 00:07:18.860 Amber Lin: Awesome.
29 00:07:20.070 ⇒ 00:07:28.190 Uttam Kumaran: So like, I guess I I guess. Why haven’t we done it so far? And is, does this solve the problem? I feel like this is not much different than what the original
30 00:07:28.860 ⇒ 00:07:31.670 Uttam Kumaran: situation wise. I guess I’m just throwing Rico into it.
31 00:07:36.810 ⇒ 00:07:39.170 Amber Lin: But was that a comment or a question?
32 00:07:39.680 ⇒ 00:07:47.080 Uttam Kumaran: It’s a question, I guess, like, what’s gonna change? Cause? I thought it was already kind of on you guys to sort of own this, I guess. Tell me, what’s gonna
33 00:07:47.370 ⇒ 00:07:49.230 Uttam Kumaran: Andrew? Does this help at all?
34 00:07:52.030 ⇒ 00:07:57.840 Amber Lin: Well, 1st of all, we can meet more. Do you mean like, in terms of.
35 00:08:02.470 ⇒ 00:08:04.999 Uttam Kumaran: Do any allocations for more than a month.
36 00:08:05.990 ⇒ 00:08:06.800 Amber Lin: Okay.
37 00:08:07.360 ⇒ 00:08:16.299 Amber Lin: So our allocations, we originally said, we’re gonna do it every month. Last time we did it, and we were looking at the clockify.
38 00:08:16.550 ⇒ 00:08:20.780 Amber Lin: So we did it for June. And
39 00:08:21.060 ⇒ 00:08:24.950 Amber Lin: the next meeting actually is tomorrow. It was originally today.
40 00:08:24.950 ⇒ 00:08:26.090 Amber Lin: Well, I didn’t.
41 00:08:26.090 ⇒ 00:08:26.670 Amber Lin: Tomorrow.
42 00:08:26.670 ⇒ 00:08:29.640 Uttam Kumaran: I didn’t know we did it, for I didn’t know we did it for June first.st
43 00:08:29.920 ⇒ 00:08:36.679 Uttam Kumaran: Where were the outcomes? And I checked operating? It’s it hadn’t changed since May. I was all the same stuff.
44 00:08:38.210 ⇒ 00:08:40.500 Amber Lin: Okay, I see.
45 00:08:41.260 ⇒ 00:08:45.880 Amber Lin: I think we we discussed it informally when we were looking at the clockwise spreadsheet.
46 00:08:47.520 ⇒ 00:08:52.149 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, no, I’m just asking questions like I. My assumption is, we haven’t done it since may.
47 00:08:56.000 ⇒ 00:08:58.830 Amber Lin: We haven’t done it operating since May. That’s correct.
48 00:08:59.050 ⇒ 00:08:59.800 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Okay.
49 00:08:59.800 ⇒ 00:09:00.830 Amber Lin: Yes, that’s correct.
50 00:09:03.310 ⇒ 00:09:09.000 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah, I just like I, I wanna know that it could get handled because I just can’t.
51 00:09:09.470 ⇒ 00:09:11.517 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, not right now.
52 00:09:12.380 ⇒ 00:09:23.230 Uttam Kumaran: I just need to know that it’s going to like we’re gonna have a basically an allocation report for July, like, sometime within the next week or so.
53 00:09:24.560 ⇒ 00:09:32.060 Amber Lin: Yeah, I understand. And we have the. I have the meeting booked for tomorrow. So I’ll keep you updated on how that goes.
54 00:09:32.730 ⇒ 00:09:33.340 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
55 00:09:37.630 ⇒ 00:09:38.300 Uttam Kumaran: bye.
56 00:09:38.873 ⇒ 00:09:45.170 Uttam Kumaran: Any questions on any of the other sort of I am just.
57 00:09:49.180 ⇒ 00:09:50.220 Hannah Wang: Yeah, I mean, I just made.
58 00:09:50.220 ⇒ 00:09:50.970 Uttam Kumaran: There’s 1.
59 00:09:50.970 ⇒ 00:09:51.450 Hannah Wang: Oh!
60 00:09:51.450 ⇒ 00:09:52.319 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. Sorry. Not.
61 00:09:53.875 ⇒ 00:09:55.450 Hannah Wang: Ohish! You can go ahead.
62 00:10:00.030 ⇒ 00:10:04.240 Awaish Kumar: Okay? I, just, I was in point number 5 and things to change.
63 00:10:05.040 ⇒ 00:10:07.210 Awaish Kumar: It’s about me.
64 00:10:07.530 ⇒ 00:10:14.832 Awaish Kumar: Well, is is it about data questions? Is it more about cooling or like.
65 00:10:16.370 ⇒ 00:10:21.539 Awaish Kumar: is it like you’re talking about a specific data question regarding client or
66 00:10:21.760 ⇒ 00:10:24.899 Awaish Kumar: most generic, like data platform like.
67 00:10:28.050 ⇒ 00:10:32.680 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean, I just think that like, I’m starting. And we’re gonna start to measure this
68 00:10:35.060 ⇒ 00:10:39.179 Uttam Kumaran: this week. But I’m just getting it up too much.
69 00:10:39.830 ⇒ 00:10:41.689 Uttam Kumaran: or like a lot of questions that
70 00:10:42.040 ⇒ 00:10:48.029 Uttam Kumaran: other people can certainly answer, or they can’t like. This crew should certainly be equipped to.
71 00:10:48.220 ⇒ 00:10:49.350 Uttam Kumaran: So
72 00:10:50.040 ⇒ 00:10:55.400 Uttam Kumaran: it’s just becoming like too much of my time is I’m probably spending 4 h just in slack every day
73 00:10:55.680 ⇒ 00:10:57.219 Uttam Kumaran: moving things along.
74 00:10:57.680 ⇒ 00:11:00.429 Uttam Kumaran: So I basically just need to find a way to get out of that.
75 00:11:00.750 ⇒ 00:11:01.550 Uttam Kumaran: Otherwise.
76 00:11:01.550 ⇒ 00:11:02.130 Awaish Kumar: Is.
77 00:11:02.820 ⇒ 00:11:04.840 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know. It’s gonna be sort of a challenge.
78 00:11:07.490 ⇒ 00:11:09.059 Uttam Kumaran: So these are just like.
79 00:11:09.060 ⇒ 00:11:09.680 Awaish Kumar: Question.
80 00:11:10.850 ⇒ 00:11:15.189 Uttam Kumaran: Well, I guess where where I would equate this to is. These are just any type of questions
81 00:11:15.410 ⇒ 00:11:17.600 Uttam Kumaran: that, like I get tagged in.
82 00:11:17.960 ⇒ 00:11:19.170 Uttam Kumaran: So I
83 00:11:19.430 ⇒ 00:11:27.689 Uttam Kumaran: like, if there are data questions like Kyle asked me a data question. If anybody asks a data question, I’m just hoping that you can be the 1st line of defense.
84 00:11:30.780 ⇒ 00:11:36.099 Uttam Kumaran: But what this is gonna mean in reality is, I’m just gonna stop responding to certain things because I can’t.
85 00:11:36.490 ⇒ 00:11:45.679 Uttam Kumaran: I can’t. I can’t sort of get a lens into which questions are being asked that like 100 mean my input versus, they can get answered by someone else.
86 00:11:47.790 ⇒ 00:11:56.989 Uttam Kumaran: so I just either have to sort of pause answering questions until they sort of escalate. And so my kind of my expectation for this crew is that
87 00:11:57.540 ⇒ 00:12:03.160 Uttam Kumaran: y’all answer like, try to get me the 1st line of defense on on most things.
88 00:12:03.570 ⇒ 00:12:09.259 Uttam Kumaran: because my response rate is gonna slow down a little bit in the short term.
89 00:12:10.540 ⇒ 00:12:16.729 Awaish Kumar: And but yeah, like, that’s what we this like decided in in
90 00:12:16.920 ⇒ 00:12:22.540 Awaish Kumar: a lot of other things that like we have, we, we could be the 1st kind of difference for many things.
91 00:12:22.640 ⇒ 00:12:30.360 Awaish Kumar: But it’s maybe it’s because, like, we are very small team. And people are like, very
92 00:12:30.690 ⇒ 00:12:37.985 Awaish Kumar: like right now. It’s it’s very open, like. Everybody can tag you very easily, and and they just do it
93 00:12:39.200 ⇒ 00:12:48.049 Awaish Kumar: like, even if like, they they can ask their peer like they like. I can ask them, maybe similarly. But it just like you like.
94 00:12:49.370 ⇒ 00:12:56.750 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, it’s also my fault. Like, I’m not blaming this car. I think I I’m also very available, like, I tend to answer everything
95 00:12:56.860 ⇒ 00:13:01.559 Uttam Kumaran: pretty frequently. And I think I’m just gonna have to sort of slow that down
96 00:13:04.110 ⇒ 00:13:08.520 Uttam Kumaran: just because it’s been. Really, it’s like, I’m just getting very hard for me to keep up, especially now that we’re
97 00:13:08.670 ⇒ 00:13:11.120 Uttam Kumaran: going on 10 plus customers.
98 00:13:13.060 ⇒ 00:13:15.039 Uttam Kumaran: And we’re doing a lot more on the sales side.
99 00:13:15.400 ⇒ 00:13:18.520 Uttam Kumaran: It’s becoming a lot more rapid. So I mean.
100 00:13:18.620 ⇒ 00:13:25.469 Uttam Kumaran: I will hold myself accountable, and really just try to not be as available and sort of batch my responses.
101 00:13:27.040 ⇒ 00:13:33.930 Uttam Kumaran: That being said like my. My worry in doing that is that projects don’t move forward.
102 00:13:34.130 ⇒ 00:13:37.536 Uttam Kumaran: Right? So that’s kind of my sort of
103 00:13:39.000 ⇒ 00:13:41.250 Uttam Kumaran: Internal problem is that if
104 00:13:41.440 ⇒ 00:13:45.909 Uttam Kumaran: if I don’t sort of help to move things along like if people don’t get things answered in slack.
105 00:13:46.760 ⇒ 00:13:50.090 Uttam Kumaran: then projects don’t move forward. I don’t know whether that’s like a
106 00:13:50.830 ⇒ 00:13:57.219 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t. I don’t know whether entirely like that’s founded in anything, but that’s probably my
107 00:13:57.420 ⇒ 00:13:59.430 Uttam Kumaran: big fear. To be honest.
108 00:14:01.930 ⇒ 00:14:09.673 Amber Lin: I think that’s partly also a question for me of okay, how do you? How do we make sure that you feel confident that projects gonna move forward.
109 00:14:10.690 ⇒ 00:14:12.499 Amber Lin: Oh, well, in my view, like
110 00:14:13.150 ⇒ 00:14:21.070 Amber Lin: when they ask you a question, they’re not necessarily. You don’t necessarily need to be the person that answers it. And as a project manager.
111 00:14:21.290 ⇒ 00:14:29.809 Amber Lin: if it’s not answers it, it’s a blocker, and it’s my responsibility to get someone to answer that. And it doesn’t have to be you.
112 00:14:30.080 ⇒ 00:14:49.439 Amber Lin: I think, because now you are available, the engineers default to asking you. But I think it will be a simple change of process. Okay, okay, said he doesn’t want to answer these before someone else. A wish gets the 1st pass. Then I will just channel all of those to a wish.
113 00:14:49.720 ⇒ 00:14:50.930 Amber Lin: and
114 00:14:51.110 ⇒ 00:15:00.159 Amber Lin: which is also very responsible for like. And we’ve seen that on matter more already that he’s able to move those forward and able to
115 00:15:00.911 ⇒ 00:15:03.870 Amber Lin: guide the junior engineers on
116 00:15:04.120 ⇒ 00:15:08.379 Amber Lin: how to think about these blockers. So I think it’s a it wouldn’t be.
117 00:15:08.980 ⇒ 00:15:15.930 Amber Lin: it can. It wouldn’t be too much of a change. I think you should let us try and then see how it goes.
118 00:15:16.930 ⇒ 00:15:18.696 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah. I mean, that’s
119 00:15:19.360 ⇒ 00:15:22.599 Uttam Kumaran: I think that’s that is partly like, I think, a short term
120 00:15:22.740 ⇒ 00:15:39.069 Uttam Kumaran: sort of fear of mine. But then I I trust you guys. So I think that’s why I wanted to kind of goes in line with the next point, which is, I wanted to increase the frequency of these meetings like, I would like these meetings to be a place where we discuss sort of risks or things that are super blocked.
121 00:15:41.390 ⇒ 00:15:45.269 Uttam Kumaran: And I think that one. What I’m gonna try to do more of is just
122 00:15:45.700 ⇒ 00:15:53.410 Uttam Kumaran: like, try to kind of guard a little bit of my time so I can go work on some of the things that are that take
123 00:15:53.540 ⇒ 00:15:56.540 Uttam Kumaran: 30 min, 1 h, 2 h to get done.
124 00:15:57.790 ⇒ 00:16:04.390 Uttam Kumaran: So I think that would be very helpful if I can just come to this meeting. And and I know that, okay, if there are issues, and we’ll discuss it here.
125 00:16:06.470 ⇒ 00:16:10.710 Uttam Kumaran: Because I feel like I’m getting probably like a hundred things a day or so or more.
126 00:16:10.970 ⇒ 00:16:21.490 Uttam Kumaran: and it’s just getting a little bit tough to go work on some of the larger items like, I probably need a day to finish up. The financial models probably need a day to finish up incentive programs.
127 00:16:21.700 ⇒ 00:16:25.099 Uttam Kumaran: So it’s that’s those are the things that
128 00:16:30.210 ⇒ 00:16:32.530 Uttam Kumaran: just better, but
129 00:16:32.970 ⇒ 00:16:37.240 Uttam Kumaran: still quite a bit because the rest of the time it’s sort of a ad hoc.
130 00:16:37.661 ⇒ 00:16:41.139 Amber Lin: That’s the rest of the time is really where I’m sending messages and stuff so.
131 00:16:45.770 ⇒ 00:16:46.600 Uttam Kumaran: Okay?
132 00:16:47.580 ⇒ 00:16:51.039 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, I’m gonna also take some of Luke’s help.
133 00:16:51.150 ⇒ 00:16:54.019 Uttam Kumaran: Gonna help me with some internal measurement work.
134 00:16:55.710 ⇒ 00:16:59.510 Uttam Kumaran: And I just need some. I’ll just use up some more more of his time
135 00:16:59.710 ⇒ 00:17:02.859 Uttam Kumaran: to help there. So he’s not like just on one client.
136 00:17:03.373 ⇒ 00:17:05.780 Uttam Kumaran: And that’s fine. I think that’s okay.
137 00:17:06.765 ⇒ 00:17:07.800 Amber Lin: He we also.
138 00:17:07.800 ⇒ 00:17:08.340 Uttam Kumaran: Add to him.
139 00:17:08.349 ⇒ 00:17:15.729 Amber Lin: ABC today. So he has 2 clients, but they’re all relatively small work. So he would have capacity.
140 00:17:17.970 ⇒ 00:17:32.410 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah, I’m just helping him. I’m just asking to help me with some like, I’m having do some time measurement and then the data. The AI team sometimes need some data help. So it’d be there for that. So I think that’s fine.
141 00:17:36.570 ⇒ 00:17:39.529 Uttam Kumaran: In terms of initiatives to stop. I think.
142 00:17:40.150 ⇒ 00:17:43.230 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna have Ryan help a little bit on the sales side.
143 00:17:43.608 ⇒ 00:17:54.210 Uttam Kumaran: Putting together some new campaigns we want to run, and you can sort of pause the blog and the glossary. I think Ryan sort of like he wants to do a lot of different things. But I wanna make sure that
144 00:17:54.370 ⇒ 00:18:04.260 Uttam Kumaran: like if we were to be honest, like having some help on the sales and recruiting side is more important than the blog and the glossary. So as long as we can keep up Linkedin, I’m like.
145 00:18:04.520 ⇒ 00:18:07.120 Uttam Kumaran: I feel good.
146 00:18:07.485 ⇒ 00:18:13.729 Uttam Kumaran: So I’m gonna sort of take some of this time in terms of like, I think the next thing is like, probably like my one on ones. I think
147 00:18:14.230 ⇒ 00:18:23.369 Uttam Kumaran: I’m I’m just gonna sort of I was doing, maybe 3 other ones a week amber. We can still chat on Fridays, but I’ll probably just pause all of those that gives me back.
148 00:18:23.600 ⇒ 00:18:27.099 Uttam Kumaran: you know, several blocks and kind of some interruptions per week
149 00:18:27.420 ⇒ 00:18:32.670 Uttam Kumaran: Friday afternoon. It’s whatever like anyone. But and you guys can always call me like. That’s no problem, I think
150 00:18:32.910 ⇒ 00:18:36.620 Uttam Kumaran: just having it scheduled frees up another hour, an hour and a half.
151 00:18:38.610 ⇒ 00:18:43.340 Uttam Kumaran: and then I think another 2 things on on the data side. And this is maybe more for a wish like.
152 00:18:43.510 ⇒ 00:18:46.729 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know if the office Hours program is is working
153 00:18:46.840 ⇒ 00:18:51.369 Uttam Kumaran: as much. So I guess that’s up kind of up to you like I think I may.
154 00:18:52.060 ⇒ 00:18:53.930 Uttam Kumaran: I may not be able to attend.
155 00:18:54.200 ⇒ 00:19:08.269 Uttam Kumaran: I’m our host, and then, similarly, like for certifications. I don’t know. I I wanna make sure that you have time for you now have the interns and sort of answering other questions. Just wanna make sure you have time for stuff, and if that’s a distraction, then I want to sort of take that off your plate.
156 00:19:12.580 ⇒ 00:19:18.360 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, like, that’s okay. And like, for the open hours, I and Jamilda are running right now like
157 00:19:18.670 ⇒ 00:19:23.399 Awaish Kumar: like 5 feel it is too much. Then we can just stop it.
158 00:19:24.050 ⇒ 00:19:24.560 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
159 00:19:24.560 ⇒ 00:19:25.549 Awaish Kumar: I know.
160 00:19:26.750 ⇒ 00:19:32.069 Awaish Kumar: and for DVD. Certification I don’t know like you and Wrd were planning to book it. I don’t know.
161 00:19:32.970 ⇒ 00:19:39.420 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I still will take the test. I just, I think, like, I just don’t want it to be another thing to for you to check in on
162 00:19:39.740 ⇒ 00:19:41.810 Uttam Kumaran: like, let’s just leave it there.
163 00:19:41.940 ⇒ 00:19:44.510 Uttam Kumaran: and we can circle back, probably in a month or 2.
164 00:19:45.810 ⇒ 00:19:50.370 Awaish Kumar: Okay, like, we can just remove it. And like of
165 00:19:51.240 ⇒ 00:19:56.570 Awaish Kumar: like, maybe, like, we have some different plan for that, like, you know.
166 00:19:57.024 ⇒ 00:20:08.040 Awaish Kumar: Keep it as a part of kpis, and when we go with the in the review process, like whenever like, you know, in in call in 6 months, or whenever like. We can then
167 00:20:08.220 ⇒ 00:20:14.890 Awaish Kumar: bring this up like, okay, like this has some points in this in deciding XYZ.
168 00:20:16.100 ⇒ 00:20:17.649 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah, I do think.
169 00:20:17.650 ⇒ 00:20:19.530 Awaish Kumar: You could encourage people to do something.
170 00:20:20.210 ⇒ 00:20:23.939 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I agree. I do think until we have those mechanisms, it’s gonna be hard.
171 00:20:25.650 ⇒ 00:20:26.290 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
172 00:20:31.520 ⇒ 00:20:37.699 Uttam Kumaran: okay? And then in terms of things to do. Yeah, there’s a couple of here that are like helping with recruiting.
173 00:20:38.306 ⇒ 00:20:44.330 Uttam Kumaran: I’m just connecting me with. Basically, I want to try to get a close in on whoever that AI lead is.
174 00:20:44.540 ⇒ 00:20:47.259 Uttam Kumaran: gonna try to get a close on the the Pm.
175 00:20:49.010 ⇒ 00:20:54.779 Uttam Kumaran: And then we wanna try to get potentially one more like expert that’s in mixed panel or segment.
176 00:20:55.412 ⇒ 00:21:00.769 Uttam Kumaran: To come assist. I think, sitting in, massa. We’re gonna work on Hubspot.
177 00:21:01.020 ⇒ 00:21:05.949 Uttam Kumaran: and then I’ll talk to them about getting the sales resource list in the platform site. So
178 00:21:08.150 ⇒ 00:21:11.610 Uttam Kumaran: I think that’s it. I mean, I think the big thing for me is like even today.
179 00:21:11.870 ⇒ 00:21:18.050 Uttam Kumaran: still have to get a bunch of invoices out for next month and contracts out to clients, and it’s just tough to do that.
180 00:21:18.410 ⇒ 00:21:21.029 Uttam Kumaran: I just probably have like 2 h of free time.
181 00:21:21.472 ⇒ 00:21:25.239 Uttam Kumaran: So it’s I think I just need to continue to push
182 00:21:25.470 ⇒ 00:21:28.129 Uttam Kumaran: to see how we can put constraints on
183 00:21:28.930 ⇒ 00:21:34.009 Uttam Kumaran: sort of like distractions, and I think there will be a little bit of a short term
184 00:21:34.170 ⇒ 00:21:42.849 Uttam Kumaran: sort of a hit. But I think, as Amber said, I think people will be forced to be resourceful. So part of it is just like, if I’m unavailable, I think it’ll
185 00:21:42.970 ⇒ 00:21:44.880 Uttam Kumaran: it’ll help make that happen.
186 00:21:46.600 ⇒ 00:21:57.590 Uttam Kumaran: I know a lot of the team can just ask each other. I I just really, I just don’t sometimes understand why folks aren’t asking each other, but it’s probably my fault, because I was pretty easy to get to, so maybe I should
187 00:21:57.720 ⇒ 00:22:01.629 Uttam Kumaran: just try to be like less responsive there.
188 00:22:11.450 ⇒ 00:22:13.750 Uttam Kumaran: Cool any other questions there.
189 00:22:17.355 ⇒ 00:22:21.044 Uttam Kumaran: The next thing I wanted to sort of talk about was
190 00:22:22.627 ⇒ 00:22:27.690 Uttam Kumaran: so kind of like structure for this meeting.
191 00:22:28.127 ⇒ 00:22:33.670 Uttam Kumaran: Spend some time thinking about it a little bit, I mean for me. I kind of want to
192 00:22:34.220 ⇒ 00:22:37.110 Uttam Kumaran: go around the Horn. And I I’m kind of
193 00:22:37.590 ⇒ 00:22:42.520 Uttam Kumaran: care less about like general updates, more about like
194 00:22:43.570 ⇒ 00:22:46.820 Uttam Kumaran: the each of the folks on this team coming with
195 00:22:46.970 ⇒ 00:22:49.679 Uttam Kumaran: like, Hey, this is. This is a risk where, like
196 00:22:49.790 ⇒ 00:22:52.779 Uttam Kumaran: dealing with. Now, how should we handle?
197 00:22:54.510 ⇒ 00:22:58.710 Uttam Kumaran: So let me pull. I had just a little thing to read through. Give me a sec.
198 00:23:21.380 ⇒ 00:23:23.090 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
199 00:23:33.870 ⇒ 00:23:38.480 Uttam Kumaran: yeah. So I think I kind of want to do 2 things that, and then I’ll share sort of a couple of things that
200 00:23:38.700 ⇒ 00:23:43.950 Uttam Kumaran: you guys can have expectations for me in this meeting. So I think one is like, I want to start with
201 00:23:44.340 ⇒ 00:23:49.749 Uttam Kumaran: just like each manager going on around the Horn and just saying like, here’s like one risk.
202 00:23:50.653 ⇒ 00:23:57.029 Uttam Kumaran: and we each can have one that we’re like, Hey, this is something that’s coming up. I think we can.
203 00:23:57.470 ⇒ 00:24:04.729 Uttam Kumaran: We’ll we can note it down. And then basically say, Okay, are there any things we can do about those immediately, but if not, it’s fine.
204 00:24:06.390 ⇒ 00:24:12.870 Uttam Kumaran: I think the second path I wanna spend time on like escalations or ways to unblock.
205 00:24:13.080 ⇒ 00:24:24.379 Uttam Kumaran: This is where it’s like, if amber is like, Hey, this client isn’t getting back to me. Okay, there’s a good escalation. So we sort of note down these like immediate escalations or unblocks that I can do.
206 00:24:26.500 ⇒ 00:24:32.260 Uttam Kumaran: I think I want to spend the next portion just talking a little bit about like
207 00:24:32.440 ⇒ 00:24:39.749 Uttam Kumaran: anything on the strategy side like anything on strategy that we’re changing or moves that we’re making
208 00:24:40.290 ⇒ 00:24:43.529 Uttam Kumaran: and then, I think, based on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
209 00:24:44.049 ⇒ 00:24:49.080 Uttam Kumaran: I want to definitely find opportunity to talk about financials with everybody.
210 00:24:49.200 ⇒ 00:24:52.410 Uttam Kumaran: So I can share sort of
211 00:24:52.530 ⇒ 00:25:10.620 Uttam Kumaran: updates. Maybe it’s once a week, or once every 2 weeks on sort of how we’re tracking financially. I think it would be great for Robert to give an update on how we’re tracking sales wise like how many leads were contacted and things like that.
212 00:25:11.410 ⇒ 00:25:19.630 Uttam Kumaran: and then I also want to give an update each week on progress. We’re doing on the AI side, and internally
213 00:25:20.063 ⇒ 00:25:46.890 Uttam Kumaran: so we kicked off several new things this week. But I feel like some of our AI stuff is getting adopted. Some stuff is still a little bit shaky. So I that’s probably like something that I I will bring up once a week, is I can. I’m gonna hold a little bit of like. Okay, what are we doing to continue to keep our margins high? And sort of pushing off the need to hire several more folks.
214 00:25:47.316 ⇒ 00:25:54.124 Uttam Kumaran: So I I do want to take a time each week to talk about AI to talk about finance, and to talk about
215 00:25:55.020 ⇒ 00:26:04.489 Uttam Kumaran: sales. So in each of those in in one or 3 of those meetings we can talk about that finance. I may every one week may not
216 00:26:05.120 ⇒ 00:26:07.310 Uttam Kumaran: be the best, but maybe every
217 00:26:07.480 ⇒ 00:26:13.020 Uttam Kumaran: 2 weeks is best. I also want to take time to talk about sort of like
218 00:26:13.520 ⇒ 00:26:17.619 Uttam Kumaran: how we’re thinking about the company overall like longer term roadmap
219 00:26:17.840 ⇒ 00:26:26.259 Uttam Kumaran: like, how do we see the company in one to 5 years from now? And moves we’re making to enable that, like
220 00:26:26.400 ⇒ 00:26:36.039 Uttam Kumaran: those could be people I’m talking to. Those could be like strategic partnerships. And I wanna give. I wanna make sure that I’m on the hook to talk about that with this group.
221 00:26:36.140 ⇒ 00:26:38.540 Uttam Kumaran: because if I don’t talk about it.
222 00:26:38.660 ⇒ 00:26:49.709 Uttam Kumaran: that’ll mean that means I’m not thinking about it. And so it that will be really clear during that section, if I’m like, Hey, there’s no time to even do that. So I think that’s that’s something that I also want to share.
223 00:26:51.150 ⇒ 00:26:57.969 Uttam Kumaran: Is there anything else that this group would be interested in hearing about? I mean, notably left off. There is like recruiting.
224 00:26:58.240 ⇒ 00:27:04.079 Uttam Kumaran: like I just I mean, I think on. It’s it’s something that we’re kind of doing fluidly. But
225 00:27:04.480 ⇒ 00:27:11.750 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t necessarily think that we need to carve out a section to specifically talk about that
226 00:27:14.820 ⇒ 00:27:17.159 Uttam Kumaran: Is there anything else that I that
227 00:27:17.280 ⇒ 00:27:19.450 Uttam Kumaran: it would be great to sort of talk through.
228 00:27:26.340 ⇒ 00:27:38.049 Uttam Kumaran: Anything in the company where you’re like. I wish I knew more about, or I feel like we’re not doing this right like those are the things. If you’re they have, those in your mind would be helpful to bring up, and we can discuss
229 00:27:44.210 ⇒ 00:27:46.289 Uttam Kumaran: no, it may not. Yeah, yeah.
230 00:27:46.740 ⇒ 00:27:47.150 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. Go ahead.
231 00:27:47.150 ⇒ 00:27:47.960 Amber Lin: And go ahead.
232 00:27:48.380 ⇒ 00:27:54.750 Hannah Wang: Oh, I was just gonna say, I can’t think of anything right now. But I will ping the chat if there is.
233 00:27:54.920 ⇒ 00:27:58.890 Hannah Wang: Yeah, go ahead, Amber.
234 00:28:01.320 ⇒ 00:28:02.220 Amber Lin: I think.
235 00:28:02.570 ⇒ 00:28:13.280 Amber Lin: would it be helpful if we also ran our company management meetings at sprints to make sure, because we all have limited time that we can allocate.
236 00:28:13.420 ⇒ 00:28:15.989 Amber Lin: and it might be helpful
237 00:28:16.220 ⇒ 00:28:23.879 Amber Lin: to keep things accountable and keep things running. Add a consistent momentum if we also do 2 week
238 00:28:24.330 ⇒ 00:28:36.819 Amber Lin: sprints, and in that way, at the end of each sprint would be where we look at all our what we did the past 2 weeks, and how we’re performing in terms of finances and
239 00:28:37.620 ⇒ 00:28:44.550 Amber Lin: in terms of margins and talk about overall strategy. I think that could be a cadence that works for us
240 00:28:44.830 ⇒ 00:28:48.469 Amber Lin: because we’re meeting so frequently. Anyways.
241 00:28:50.350 ⇒ 00:28:57.190 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I just, I guess I’m gonna resist signing up to sort of run those, because it’s just
242 00:28:57.410 ⇒ 00:28:58.240 Uttam Kumaran: it’s a lot.
243 00:28:58.240 ⇒ 00:29:07.670 Amber Lin: I wouldn’t that I will be running. I will be running them. I was just suggesting that that could be a good cadence to keep the rest of us on track.
244 00:29:08.920 ⇒ 00:29:13.780 Uttam Kumaran: Then I wonder if we should just if we should run it like monthly, because.
245 00:29:14.860 ⇒ 00:29:16.739 Uttam Kumaran: For example, on financials like
246 00:29:16.930 ⇒ 00:29:22.680 Uttam Kumaran: the revenue only closes. I can only close the books at the month end to sort of look at how we’re doing.
247 00:29:25.730 ⇒ 00:29:30.330 Uttam Kumaran: I’m fine with. I’m fine with either way. And I, yeah, I would prefer
248 00:29:30.490 ⇒ 00:29:34.351 Uttam Kumaran: to to try to track as much as possible.
249 00:29:39.790 ⇒ 00:29:41.910 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I guess I’m I’m open to it.
250 00:29:43.010 ⇒ 00:29:44.690 Amber Lin: Okay, cause, we’re.
251 00:29:44.690 ⇒ 00:29:49.250 Hannah Wang: Would that involve setting up like a linear board and stuff, or.
252 00:29:49.250 ⇒ 00:29:50.020 Amber Lin: I can set it up.
253 00:29:50.020 ⇒ 00:29:56.739 Hannah Wang: Like. Mentally, I I just feel like, maybe that’s a good idea, because I think things just kind of get lost in notion.
254 00:29:57.565 ⇒ 00:30:04.419 Hannah Wang: We write stuff down, and then we don’t really go back to it. So I feel like linear. We’re used to like tracking stuff.
255 00:30:04.720 ⇒ 00:30:07.530 Hannah Wang: So yeah.
256 00:30:13.000 ⇒ 00:30:13.540 Amber Lin: Sure.
257 00:30:13.540 ⇒ 00:30:13.940 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
258 00:30:13.940 ⇒ 00:30:16.069 Amber Lin: I can make that as a to do.
259 00:30:17.480 ⇒ 00:30:24.510 Awaish Kumar: Do we have any sheet or somewhere? We manage each client’s hours like.
260 00:30:24.850 ⇒ 00:30:26.549 Amber Lin: We have to spend like.
261 00:30:26.780 ⇒ 00:30:30.850 Awaish Kumar: 65 h on ABC. 80 h on Median, or things like that.
262 00:30:31.530 ⇒ 00:30:40.219 Amber Lin: Yes, we can talk about it and allocations tomorrow I have. I have that, and we can discuss it together on how we want to allocate.
263 00:30:41.190 ⇒ 00:30:41.850 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
264 00:30:43.160 ⇒ 00:30:48.430 Awaish Kumar: yeah. Like, it would be nice if you have that sheet, and you can. If you can share with me.
265 00:30:49.110 ⇒ 00:30:49.870 Amber Lin: Okay.
266 00:31:05.251 ⇒ 00:31:08.379 Uttam Kumaran: Another thing that I’m thinking about doing is
267 00:31:09.360 ⇒ 00:31:13.430 Uttam Kumaran: to kind of take this one step further is, I’m thinking about potentially
268 00:31:13.970 ⇒ 00:31:19.590 Uttam Kumaran: trying to do one Friday off every 2 weeks, so that I can get
269 00:31:19.710 ⇒ 00:31:22.399 Uttam Kumaran: like a couple of things that require
270 00:31:22.730 ⇒ 00:31:32.299 Uttam Kumaran: anywhere from 4 to 8 h of my time done. A couple of the the 1st things that I need to do is one finish up the rest of the financial models.
271 00:31:32.520 ⇒ 00:31:39.150 Uttam Kumaran: There’s about 4 to 6 h of work remaining there that I need to do.
272 00:31:39.890 ⇒ 00:31:44.100 Uttam Kumaran: The next thing I want to work on is sort of the incentive program.
273 00:31:45.630 ⇒ 00:31:50.980 Uttam Kumaran: That will 1st cover this group and then will scale to employees.
274 00:31:51.601 ⇒ 00:31:58.840 Uttam Kumaran: We also have a couple of things I need to do on the legal and tax side that I’ve sort of been putting off
275 00:31:59.666 ⇒ 00:32:11.099 Uttam Kumaran: about like our C Corp conversion. So my proposal and I kind of like this, I don’t know. Maybe we should do more like this sort of proposal style, but my proposal will be to
276 00:32:11.250 ⇒ 00:32:12.719 Uttam Kumaran: sort of be able to take
277 00:32:13.150 ⇒ 00:32:16.369 Uttam Kumaran: one day off, meaning like, I’ll just be
278 00:32:16.600 ⇒ 00:32:19.890 Uttam Kumaran: like Friday, basically Friday, off every 2 weeks.
279 00:32:20.460 ⇒ 00:32:25.500 Uttam Kumaran: And then I’m gonna work on getting those sort of deeper items done.
280 00:32:25.900 ⇒ 00:32:31.309 Uttam Kumaran: What off would mean for me is like I just am, gonna be off slack, basically
281 00:32:32.910 ⇒ 00:32:35.539 Amber Lin: And then, unless it’s an emergency.
282 00:32:36.328 ⇒ 00:32:39.639 Uttam Kumaran: I will just probably check in once that day.
283 00:32:40.060 ⇒ 00:32:45.849 Uttam Kumaran: and then try to my best just to get one of these larger initiatives knocked off that we can ticket out.
284 00:32:48.470 ⇒ 00:32:53.949 Uttam Kumaran: I’m just finding it extremely difficult to do some of these things at the end of the day every day.
285 00:32:54.400 ⇒ 00:32:55.480 Uttam Kumaran: and.
286 00:32:56.430 ⇒ 00:33:01.369 Uttam Kumaran: Generally I’m pretty booked up until like 2 or 3 o’clock.
287 00:33:01.600 ⇒ 00:33:03.920 Uttam Kumaran: and I don’t know it’s it’s like.
288 00:33:04.120 ⇒ 00:33:07.830 Uttam Kumaran: don’t I think it’s becoming very, very difficult for me to find time to
289 00:33:08.030 ⇒ 00:33:12.340 Uttam Kumaran: do something like the financial model that is, gonna take quite a bit of focus.
290 00:33:14.033 ⇒ 00:33:14.630 Uttam Kumaran: So.
291 00:33:14.630 ⇒ 00:33:15.320 Amber Lin: I hear that.
292 00:33:15.320 ⇒ 00:33:16.830 Uttam Kumaran: My ask, yeah.
293 00:33:17.450 ⇒ 00:33:19.559 Amber Lin: I mean, I’m totally okay with that
294 00:33:23.910 ⇒ 00:33:31.122 Amber Lin: our company, our company meeting, could be every 2 weeks and then
295 00:33:32.770 ⇒ 00:33:36.540 Amber Lin: and then for and I guess, for Friday.
296 00:33:37.240 ⇒ 00:33:43.718 Amber Lin: like the only meetings I see on the board right now are this manager meeting. If we take off.
297 00:33:44.200 ⇒ 00:34:00.210 Amber Lin: if and then we could probably use this to do any internal updates. We can move that to Thursday every other week, and so we can clear off Friday. I don’t think that’s too hard of a task based on what I see. But you might have other stuff on your calendar.
298 00:34:01.500 ⇒ 00:34:06.990 Uttam Kumaran: It’s really just the AI team meeting that’s on Friday.
299 00:34:07.260 ⇒ 00:34:08.060 Uttam Kumaran: And then.
300 00:34:08.060 ⇒ 00:34:08.780 Amber Lin: Okay.
301 00:34:09.070 ⇒ 00:34:11.279 Uttam Kumaran: Say at the meeting, is this meeting? Yeah.
302 00:34:11.909 ⇒ 00:34:15.999 Amber Lin: Yeah, I I think that’s very managed, very doable.
303 00:34:21.550 ⇒ 00:34:29.700 Hannah Wang: Yeah, I think so, too. I think, also, yeah, switching the cadence of the Friday meeting. I feel like every week is kind of
304 00:34:30.699 ⇒ 00:34:32.679 Hannah Wang: a lot, or I don’t know.
305 00:34:33.030 ⇒ 00:34:35.440 Hannah Wang: It depends on how many updates you have a week. But.
306 00:34:35.440 ⇒ 00:34:41.579 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I do like meeting every week with the whole team. I just wonder if it’s like that buys us another
307 00:34:41.989 ⇒ 00:34:54.720 Uttam Kumaran: 2 blocks, plus the time to prep that right? So like, I mean that black that basically.
308 00:34:55.000 ⇒ 00:34:55.800 Amber Lin: Yeah.
309 00:34:56.300 ⇒ 00:35:00.539 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, that gets us another, probably 2 blocks
310 00:35:01.080 ⇒ 00:35:04.229 Uttam Kumaran: 2 to 3 blocks each, probably.
311 00:35:04.730 ⇒ 00:35:05.400 Amber Lin: Yeah.
312 00:35:09.270 ⇒ 00:35:14.769 Uttam Kumaran: Which again, like, I kind of do like to meet with everybody. But it’s fine until it’s sustainable.
313 00:35:14.950 ⇒ 00:35:18.479 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t think it’s worth taking on. So maybe we do aim for every 2 weeks.
314 00:35:21.280 ⇒ 00:35:24.440 Uttam Kumaran: I mean to give you guys a barometer like most companies
315 00:35:24.560 ⇒ 00:35:26.579 Uttam Kumaran: don’t do all hands every week.
316 00:35:26.860 ⇒ 00:35:31.109 Uttam Kumaran: It’s like usually at one on once a quarter.
317 00:35:31.650 ⇒ 00:35:32.090 Hannah Wang: Yeah.
318 00:35:32.090 ⇒ 00:35:34.739 Uttam Kumaran: Because we were. We were very small at some point.
319 00:35:35.010 ⇒ 00:35:37.623 Uttam Kumaran: and I like seeing everybody, of course. But
320 00:35:38.710 ⇒ 00:35:42.099 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know. Maybe that’s just another thing we can sort of push off for now
321 00:35:42.600 ⇒ 00:35:45.560 Uttam Kumaran: and then make sure there’s those are really, really high quality.
322 00:35:48.810 ⇒ 00:35:49.380 Amber Lin: Sure.
323 00:35:53.790 ⇒ 00:36:07.680 Amber Lin: Okay. So I guess what I hear from that is, I’ll set up the linear and we should send an announcement to everybody that we’re gonna do it every 2 weeks. We can feel free to move any of those meetings
324 00:36:08.150 ⇒ 00:36:13.830 Amber Lin: that’s on your Friday, and I will move our meetings
325 00:36:14.070 ⇒ 00:36:23.050 Amber Lin: every other Friday to Thursday instead. And let’s let’s test it out. I think it’s very doable, and we might see some good benefits from that.
326 00:36:23.850 ⇒ 00:36:25.230 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, cool.
327 00:36:26.330 ⇒ 00:36:28.949 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. And then my goal. Basically, for
328 00:36:30.100 ⇒ 00:36:34.710 Uttam Kumaran: I’m I’m I’m really hopeful that I can try to get the financial models of the 1st thing done.
329 00:36:35.330 ⇒ 00:36:37.919 Uttam Kumaran: And then second, biggest priority is getting
330 00:36:39.380 ⇒ 00:36:43.620 Uttam Kumaran: getting this pm, higher. So we have some good people lined up so.
331 00:36:43.870 ⇒ 00:36:44.550 Amber Lin: Okay.
332 00:36:48.390 ⇒ 00:36:53.729 Uttam Kumaran: cool. And then, yeah, 3, rd I think I’m gonna really try to run this experiment pretty sincerely with slack
333 00:36:54.490 ⇒ 00:36:56.090 Uttam Kumaran: I think it’ll be helpful.
334 00:36:56.350 ⇒ 00:37:00.409 Uttam Kumaran: just brutal, finding myself really, really hard to get out of the
335 00:37:00.640 ⇒ 00:37:06.760 Uttam Kumaran: the mix of things, just because some things are really easy to answer, and there’s like, No, no sense of input
336 00:37:07.080 ⇒ 00:37:12.480 Uttam Kumaran: priority when it comes in. So I’m sort of sometimes didn’t answer questions for like
337 00:37:13.540 ⇒ 00:37:16.829 Uttam Kumaran: 3 h. And it’s a little bit rough. That’s not how
338 00:37:17.360 ⇒ 00:37:19.670 Uttam Kumaran: this crew should be spending my time. So
339 00:37:21.560 ⇒ 00:37:22.230 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
340 00:37:31.820 ⇒ 00:37:32.950 Amber Lin: Okay. Okay.
341 00:37:33.520 ⇒ 00:37:40.820 Uttam Kumaran: I think the only other thing I would probably ask is, if everybody here could take a look at the links that Robert sent.
342 00:37:41.409 ⇒ 00:37:47.150 Uttam Kumaran: It would be great to have like a little bit more of an intense discussion about those on
343 00:37:47.640 ⇒ 00:37:48.750 Uttam Kumaran: Wednesday.
344 00:37:50.690 ⇒ 00:37:56.060 Uttam Kumaran: Ideally. These are like
345 00:37:56.470 ⇒ 00:38:01.690 Uttam Kumaran: you should be seeing information about financial goals, sales, goals.
346 00:38:03.030 ⇒ 00:38:05.009 Uttam Kumaran: and we want to work on.
347 00:38:05.990 ⇒ 00:38:17.780 Uttam Kumaran: And we have some sort of like, we have a couple of branding changes. And so if everyone just can take a moment to to read those between now and Wednesday. I’d like to carve out some time on Wednesday to discuss.
348 00:38:26.743 ⇒ 00:38:37.299 Uttam Kumaran: So then, Wednesday, what we can do is we can. We can sort of run it as we’ll start with just like any risks we’ll start with sort of. We’ll then move to like blockers
349 00:38:37.450 ⇒ 00:38:40.860 Uttam Kumaran: or things to unblock, and then
350 00:38:41.530 ⇒ 00:38:45.949 Uttam Kumaran: we’ll then go to discussing those documents.
351 00:38:48.020 ⇒ 00:38:49.729 Uttam Kumaran: And then, if we have time
352 00:38:50.274 ⇒ 00:38:56.844 Uttam Kumaran: we can just continue to. I think I want to propose that we talk through sort of
353 00:38:58.090 ⇒ 00:39:01.189 Uttam Kumaran: client execution of okrs and delivery okrs.
354 00:39:01.822 ⇒ 00:39:07.759 Uttam Kumaran: and those are probably the 2 things on the docket. I know. I know. Alex, hit me up to review
355 00:39:08.370 ⇒ 00:39:14.319 Uttam Kumaran: some stuff with him about the Pmo work that you guys have done. So
356 00:39:14.570 ⇒ 00:39:19.860 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I think it’ll be a nice time, or we can sort of use that meeting instead of talking about it separately.
357 00:39:22.350 ⇒ 00:39:40.909 Amber Lin: Sure I’m meeting with him again today to finalize a few items. I think Async Async wise before Wednesday I’ll try to get our linear setup. I’ll try to. To my best of my abilities. Add the tickets from our previous discussions in there to add any projects that we have.
358 00:39:41.070 ⇒ 00:39:49.399 Amber Lin: and also, probably before Wednesday we wanna make sure that the meetings are moved, and you have your Friday every other week clear.
359 00:39:49.400 ⇒ 00:39:49.970 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
360 00:39:50.897 ⇒ 00:39:55.490 Uttam Kumaran: So then the other. The other item for this Wednesday, and if not, we can
361 00:39:55.921 ⇒ 00:39:58.940 Uttam Kumaran: do it later is, if you guys do end up.
362 00:39:59.090 ⇒ 00:40:04.150 Uttam Kumaran: I’m finalizing some of the allocations. We can spend time as far on Wednesday. Looking through that.
363 00:40:05.570 ⇒ 00:40:16.009 Amber Lin: Oh, okay, yeah, allocations. I don’t know if we have enough time on Wednesdays meetings, but between Wednesday and Friday we’ll definitely find a time to talk about it.
364 00:40:16.330 ⇒ 00:40:21.210 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, and I would leverage I would leverage Rico happily there to do any of the
365 00:40:21.570 ⇒ 00:40:25.780 Uttam Kumaran: like execution. Like, if you’re like, Hey, go on operating and set all these things up or
366 00:40:26.050 ⇒ 00:40:28.279 Uttam Kumaran: create a quick report.
367 00:40:28.710 ⇒ 00:40:34.599 Uttam Kumaran: We’re moving clock. If I to operating, I would leverage his his time for that as much as possible.
368 00:40:34.800 ⇒ 00:40:38.219 Uttam Kumaran: Use the time where you guys needing to make some some decisions.
369 00:40:38.630 ⇒ 00:40:40.280 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, that’ll be really helpful.
370 00:40:40.520 ⇒ 00:40:41.110 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
371 00:40:41.110 ⇒ 00:40:42.910 Amber Lin: Okay. Sounds good.
372 00:40:44.900 ⇒ 00:40:52.479 Amber Lin: Oh, and one other thing, because to announce announcements to make
373 00:40:53.620 ⇒ 00:41:00.219 Amber Lin: and team channel is one to say, Friday meetings is bi-weekly.
374 00:41:00.917 ⇒ 00:41:04.650 Uttam Kumaran: Also, Uton, for you to say if you have questions as a wish.
375 00:41:05.590 ⇒ 00:41:11.239 Uttam Kumaran: sure. And the other thing is, it’s July 4th here on on Thursday or Friday.
376 00:41:13.946 ⇒ 00:41:17.870 Amber Lin: That should be a Thursday. Let me double check.
377 00:41:18.390 ⇒ 00:41:19.789 Amber Lin: No, that’s a Friday.
378 00:41:20.600 ⇒ 00:41:24.120 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, I feel like it’s gonna be kind of a slow week with clients.
379 00:41:25.820 ⇒ 00:41:26.600 Uttam Kumaran: Overall.
380 00:41:26.600 ⇒ 00:41:28.300 Amber Lin: Take this Friday off if you want.
381 00:41:28.900 ⇒ 00:41:31.330 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’m gonna be probably off on Friday.
382 00:41:33.000 ⇒ 00:41:33.730 Uttam Kumaran: But I’ll just.
383 00:41:34.382 ⇒ 00:41:36.340 Amber Lin: Next week. Okay.
384 00:41:36.340 ⇒ 00:41:50.939 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’ll send a note to everyone just saying, like Friday, we could take off. I just think, if you’re working with clients, just keep that in mind, so that if anything needs to get done this week I would probably aim for Wednesday. Some people, as you know, like for ABC. They’re already off. So
385 00:41:53.650 ⇒ 00:41:59.090 Amber Lin: Okay, yeah. Sounds good. Thanks for the reminder. I totally forgot.
386 00:42:02.760 ⇒ 00:42:07.960 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. So I think another another good like sort of round of buts in a good way.
387 00:42:09.500 ⇒ 00:42:10.930 Uttam Kumaran: I think it’s been.
388 00:42:11.340 ⇒ 00:42:17.639 Uttam Kumaran: I think it’s it’s got better. After Hannah was helping with sales stuff. I think I want to do one more push
389 00:42:17.750 ⇒ 00:42:18.880 Uttam Kumaran: towards that.
390 00:42:19.364 ⇒ 00:42:26.859 Uttam Kumaran: I think we’re realigning time. I think we’re gonna get Ryan and Mustafa also helping with stuff on sales side.
391 00:42:28.450 ⇒ 00:42:35.410 Uttam Kumaran: and so yeah, I think overall, these were a good set of changes. I think I’m gonna try to get over my fear and nightmare of
392 00:42:35.590 ⇒ 00:42:57.600 Uttam Kumaran: not checking slack. So that’s on me that’s on me to figure out but I I trust you guys. So I just would say, if you guys see people ask asking questions, and even if you think you you have a 1 type of answer. I would just send it, anyways. But I’m gonna really try to do my best.
393 00:42:58.134 ⇒ 00:43:04.495 Uttam Kumaran: In context, which being nonstop for like 6 months now, so we could get some like deeper stuff done.
394 00:43:04.830 ⇒ 00:43:10.319 Uttam Kumaran: okay, you know, there’s a really good opportunity for us to cross a hundred k this month.
395 00:43:11.096 ⇒ 00:43:14.849 Uttam Kumaran: In revenue. And so I really just want to
396 00:43:15.290 ⇒ 00:43:18.495 Uttam Kumaran: make that a reality for us.
397 00:43:19.370 ⇒ 00:43:24.049 Uttam Kumaran: I think that’ll be really, really positive if it if it works out so.
398 00:43:25.050 ⇒ 00:43:25.710 Amber Lin: Yeah.
399 00:43:28.750 ⇒ 00:43:29.770 Amber Lin: great.
400 00:43:30.050 ⇒ 00:43:35.760 Amber Lin: Okay, we have a few items to do. We’ll talk in the slack.
401 00:43:37.330 ⇒ 00:43:38.010 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
402 00:43:38.890 ⇒ 00:43:39.770 Amber Lin: Alrighty!
403 00:43:39.950 ⇒ 00:43:41.160 Hannah Wang: Sounds good.
404 00:43:41.760 ⇒ 00:43:42.639 Uttam Kumaran: Thanks. Everyone.
405 00:43:42.830 ⇒ 00:43:43.750 Hannah Wang: I.
406 00:43:44.090 ⇒ 00:43:44.580 Awaish Kumar: Right.
407 00:43:44.580 ⇒ 00:43:45.300 Amber Lin: Bye, bye.