Meeting Title: Team Structure and Leadership Planning Sync Date: 2025-12-02 Meeting participants: Uttam Kumaran, Awaish Kumar
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1 00:04:48.050 ⇒ 00:04:48.980 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, dude.
2 00:04:49.610 ⇒ 00:04:50.310 Awaish Kumar: Hello.
3 00:04:55.290 ⇒ 00:04:57.879 Uttam Kumaran: What do you think, should we extend the meeting in the morning?
4 00:04:58.290 ⇒ 00:05:00.130 Uttam Kumaran: Started, like, 30 minutes earlier.
5 00:05:01.060 ⇒ 00:05:07.270 Awaish Kumar: Hmm… Yeah, like… I think so, like… we, like…
6 00:05:07.410 ⇒ 00:05:12.329 Awaish Kumar: It’s going to take time on Remo and… Andy, Leido, because…
7 00:05:12.330 ⇒ 00:05:12.940 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
8 00:05:13.280 ⇒ 00:05:19.689 Awaish Kumar: It’s more of a back-end things, and yeah, and we are not actively, maybe not working on those.
9 00:05:19.690 ⇒ 00:05:20.330 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
10 00:05:21.070 ⇒ 00:05:23.109 Awaish Kumar: The one with the…
11 00:05:23.110 ⇒ 00:05:26.079 Uttam Kumaran: I just have to get up earlier.
12 00:05:26.980 ⇒ 00:05:29.660 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, alright, let’s do that.
13 00:05:32.730 ⇒ 00:05:35.660 Uttam Kumaran: You want me to transfer that meeting to you?
14 00:05:37.430 ⇒ 00:05:38.960 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, sure.
15 00:05:40.290 ⇒ 00:05:45.970 Awaish Kumar: Like… Okay, do you… are you keeping notes, like, now that,
16 00:05:47.030 ⇒ 00:05:49.339 Awaish Kumar: I will be running the meeting, so…
17 00:05:49.340 ⇒ 00:05:52.209 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so… so me and Rico are keeping notes.
18 00:05:52.890 ⇒ 00:05:57.339 Uttam Kumaran: To give you a sense, in the PM channel.
19 00:05:58.590 ⇒ 00:06:00.740 Uttam Kumaran: He’s starting to keep notes like this.
20 00:06:01.500 ⇒ 00:06:03.650 Awaish Kumar: I basically told him, like.
21 00:06:04.260 ⇒ 00:06:05.480 Uttam Kumaran: Shoot this out.
22 00:06:06.130 ⇒ 00:06:09.369 Uttam Kumaran: like, I said maybe DM this to people.
23 00:06:10.080 ⇒ 00:06:12.989 Uttam Kumaran: Or, like, shoot this out in engineering.
24 00:06:14.420 ⇒ 00:06:15.100 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
25 00:06:15.610 ⇒ 00:06:16.630 Uttam Kumaran: What do you think?
26 00:06:20.010 ⇒ 00:06:25.970 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, like, we can edit… shoot it in the engineering channel, like, everybody will see what…
27 00:06:26.540 ⇒ 00:06:29.460 Awaish Kumar: Other, like, everybody in the team working on, so…
28 00:06:32.550 ⇒ 00:06:42.169 Awaish Kumar: And, like, I’m… yeah, also, like, I was asking about, like, those presentations for the clients. Normally, you do it in these meetings where…
29 00:06:42.990 ⇒ 00:06:43.560 Awaish Kumar: Oscar.
30 00:06:43.560 ⇒ 00:06:48.720 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so I want… so, kind of, like, what I’m hoping for is that I can move
31 00:06:48.860 ⇒ 00:06:50.700 Uttam Kumaran: To start working on those.
32 00:06:51.570 ⇒ 00:06:52.939 Awaish Kumar: Okay. And then…
33 00:06:53.330 ⇒ 00:07:04.999 Uttam Kumaran: I can just be supporting the data… the daily stuff, more preparing for that, and then eventually, what I kind of want to do is start to get the individual engineers to help with that.
34 00:07:05.300 ⇒ 00:07:08.889 Uttam Kumaran: So getting me out of this daily loop, I think, will be helpful.
35 00:07:09.320 ⇒ 00:07:12.209 Uttam Kumaran: Because I may have to miss this here and there, also.
36 00:07:12.570 ⇒ 00:07:17.829 Uttam Kumaran: And then… I think what me and you can spend time
37 00:07:17.930 ⇒ 00:07:21.360 Uttam Kumaran: Later today or tomorrow, thinking of… thinking about, like.
38 00:07:22.010 ⇒ 00:07:27.669 Uttam Kumaran: how we want to run these teams, right? Because now we have AI team, data engineering team.
39 00:07:28.090 ⇒ 00:07:30.880 Uttam Kumaran: I say AI, let’s just say AI is, like.
40 00:07:33.020 ⇒ 00:07:47.500 Uttam Kumaran: back-end, front-end AI, right? Like, those guys are full-stack, full-stack team. Full-stack team, we have data engine, we have also the analytics engineering team, and we have now the analyst team. And we also have, like.
41 00:07:47.680 ⇒ 00:07:50.919 Uttam Kumaran: marketing tech, right, which is, like, Zoran, Henry.
42 00:07:51.240 ⇒ 00:07:54.000 Uttam Kumaran: So we’ll just need to, like.
43 00:07:54.590 ⇒ 00:08:00.359 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe me, you, and, like, Clarence can meet. Clarence is joining us to kind of think about, like, what the structure is, so…
44 00:08:00.660 ⇒ 00:08:04.670 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’ll…
45 00:08:05.050 ⇒ 00:08:13.959 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll try to find some time, but we should talk about, like, how we want to… basically, like, for each of those groups, maybe we want to think about, like, someone who’s a leader.
46 00:08:14.150 ⇒ 00:08:18.860 Uttam Kumaran: And so that person can start to drive the ownership of the… of that
47 00:08:19.100 ⇒ 00:08:21.469 Uttam Kumaran: Service across all their clients, right?
48 00:08:21.650 ⇒ 00:08:24.419 Uttam Kumaran: Because right now, I would say you’re owning all of data.
49 00:08:25.440 ⇒ 00:08:29.859 Uttam Kumaran: So now that we’ve moved from, like, me and Robert to now, I think you’re in data.
50 00:08:30.050 ⇒ 00:08:33.360 Uttam Kumaran: I think Sam can own… Full stack.
51 00:08:33.940 ⇒ 00:08:36.730 Uttam Kumaran: And then… maybe…
52 00:08:38.179 ⇒ 00:08:49.189 Uttam Kumaran: Demi, or maybe everything falls under data for you, and then we think about strategy. Right now, we don’t… Robert’s still the only person’s strategy, like, on analysis, right? So…
53 00:08:51.170 ⇒ 00:08:59.929 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, like… But these… that, like, strategy, like, should be someone like Robert, or maybe we find someone else?
54 00:08:59.930 ⇒ 00:09:02.310 Uttam Kumaran: We’re looking for someone right now, yeah.
55 00:09:03.050 ⇒ 00:09:04.810 Awaish Kumar: But the, like…
56 00:09:04.810 ⇒ 00:09:12.880 Uttam Kumaran: But there’s also financial analysis versus, digital, like, product analysis, right?
57 00:09:13.180 ⇒ 00:09:15.450 Uttam Kumaran: So… Yeah.
58 00:09:15.970 ⇒ 00:09:16.690 Awaish Kumar: Yep.
59 00:09:17.250 ⇒ 00:09:27.999 Awaish Kumar: But that analyst falls in the, like, the data, which we are, like, data guys are, like, support… are going to support the people who are, like, basically…
60 00:09:28.600 ⇒ 00:09:31.340 Awaish Kumar: Preparing the strategy for the clients.
61 00:09:31.340 ⇒ 00:09:31.910 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
62 00:09:38.340 ⇒ 00:09:46.680 Uttam Kumaran: So I wanted to… maybe me, you, and Clarence can talk about it. I think after today, we should be, like, in a pretty good set for clients, and then I’ll have some time tomorrow, so…
63 00:09:46.900 ⇒ 00:09:51.370 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, let’s hop to this other thing. I’m also free all afternoon, so I’ll be working on Zoom, so…
64 00:09:52.000 ⇒ 00:09:52.500 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
65 00:09:52.500 ⇒ 00:09:53.270 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll see you there.