Meeting Title: Mother Duck Interview Debrief and Planning Date: 2025-09-30 Meeting participants: Jake Nathan, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:07:05.700 ⇒ 00:07:06.580 Jake Nathan: Hey, Upton.
2 00:07:06.580 ⇒ 00:07:07.909 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, how are ya?
3 00:07:08.470 ⇒ 00:07:09.610 Jake Nathan: Good, how are you doing?
4 00:07:10.760 ⇒ 00:07:11.840 Uttam Kumaran: Busy.
5 00:07:12.140 ⇒ 00:07:13.000 Uttam Kumaran: Good.
6 00:07:14.200 ⇒ 00:07:19.700 Jake Nathan: I like your snowflake shirt. I just had a good talk with a mother duck today.
7 00:07:19.980 ⇒ 00:07:21.999 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, yeah, wonderful, how was it?
8 00:07:22.200 ⇒ 00:07:25.259 Jake Nathan: It was awesome, you know how, like, I don’t know, sometimes…
9 00:07:25.260 ⇒ 00:07:27.770 Uttam Kumaran: I wanted to go, dude, I just, like…
10 00:07:27.940 ⇒ 00:07:31.860 Uttam Kumaran: I had an ABC call before, right at the same time, and I couldn’t make it.
11 00:07:32.340 ⇒ 00:07:41.499 Jake Nathan: No, I gotcha. Yeah, I… it was, like, one of those conversations where they were, like, super excited to talk and, like, had a lot to talk about, so I feel.
12 00:07:41.500 ⇒ 00:07:42.100 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
13 00:07:42.100 ⇒ 00:07:49.400 Jake Nathan: Well, and, like, he was… he definitely just had a really good understanding of, like, the history of…
14 00:07:49.520 ⇒ 00:07:57.809 Jake Nathan: data warehouses and stuff, like, it wasn’t like he was just shilling at Mother Duck, like, he was really trying to give, like, a background of, like, okay, this is where…
15 00:07:57.920 ⇒ 00:08:05.719 Jake Nathan: Like, this is when it was on-prem, then… then it was cloud, and then now it’s like, okay, well, every single time that…
16 00:08:05.920 ⇒ 00:08:15.150 Jake Nathan: Like, the solution has been, like, just, hey, if we need more space, just, like, okay, we’ll increase our snowflake, but actually, like.
17 00:08:15.630 ⇒ 00:08:19.130 Jake Nathan: Yeah, and then we kind of went into It was good.
18 00:08:19.490 ⇒ 00:08:21.510 Uttam Kumaran: Great. Okay, awesome.
19 00:08:24.030 ⇒ 00:08:27.349 Jake Nathan: But yeah, I hope Yvette can make it, I’m gonna see…
20 00:08:45.410 ⇒ 00:08:47.350 Jake Nathan: He hasn’t responded or anything.
21 00:08:47.840 ⇒ 00:08:52.960 Jake Nathan: Way… Is she… she just seems like she’s extremely busy.
22 00:10:27.340 ⇒ 00:10:33.099 Jake Nathan: Oh, she said she needs to do 2.30 or 3.
23 00:10:35.910 ⇒ 00:10:36.690 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
24 00:10:36.900 ⇒ 00:10:41.400 Uttam Kumaran: I’m basically free until 4 now, so… can do that.
25 00:10:41.400 ⇒ 00:10:41.950 Jake Nathan: Okay.
26 00:10:42.220 ⇒ 00:10:42.750 Jake Nathan: Sounds.
27 00:10:42.750 ⇒ 00:10:52.599 Uttam Kumaran: If that works for you. Do you need anything from me right now? I haven’t… content stuff, I don’t know. It’s… I just need time on, so don’t worry about that, but what else do you need from me, or what else can I unblock?
28 00:10:53.590 ⇒ 00:10:58.059 Jake Nathan: I think… I think that’s really it for now. I think, just, like, moving the…
29 00:10:58.350 ⇒ 00:11:02.079 Jake Nathan: Like, the ball forward on these,
30 00:11:03.110 ⇒ 00:11:08.659 Jake Nathan: these playbooks is the main thing. So, yeah, I mean, like.
31 00:11:09.030 ⇒ 00:11:27.379 Jake Nathan: Right now, every… like, we either have everything published, or, like, we’re waiting for a review, or waiting for an interview, basically. So, like, now that I’ve finished the Mother Duck interview, I’m gonna, like, work on that content piece, and then send it… send you over the draft, and then we’ll go from there.
32 00:11:27.670 ⇒ 00:11:34.139 Uttam Kumaran: So then tomorrow, we’re… me, you, Ann, and Holly can meet, so I may have to…
33 00:11:34.280 ⇒ 00:11:44.110 Uttam Kumaran: move the meeting a little bit, but I wanted us to chat just about, like, how we can start to do… like, we want to talk about the events piece.
34 00:11:44.110 ⇒ 00:11:45.130 Jake Nathan: And…
35 00:11:45.130 ⇒ 00:11:48.950 Uttam Kumaran: basically what I’ve tasked them to figure out is pick the
36 00:11:49.000 ⇒ 00:12:05.660 Uttam Kumaran: pick our slew of potential partners, isolate a couple, and let’s run, like, a program around. Which can be either the marketing development fund, or whatever, so that’s where we can start to do a little bit of a brain trust on how we want to execute those, so…
37 00:12:06.340 ⇒ 00:12:07.610 Jake Nathan: Sounds good.
38 00:12:07.830 ⇒ 00:12:08.750 Uttam Kumaran: Awesome.
39 00:12:09.050 ⇒ 00:12:11.250 Jake Nathan: Alright, sweet. Well, yeah, I’ll see you in a little bit.
40 00:12:11.440 ⇒ 00:12:12.639 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, alright, thank you.