Meeting Title: CSO <> SL Standups Date: 2026-03-19 Meeting participants: Brylle Girang, Pranav Narahari, Robert Tseng, Greg Stoutenburg, Demilade Agboola, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:04:55.810 ⇒ 00:04:56.930 Greg Stoutenburg: Morning, everyone.
2 00:05:01.510 ⇒ 00:05:03.570 Pranav Narahari: Hey, Greg, good morning. Morning, guys.
3 00:05:05.120 ⇒ 00:05:05.820 Brylle Girang: Morning.
4 00:05:07.410 ⇒ 00:05:08.330 Robert Tseng: Morning.
5 00:06:49.930 ⇒ 00:06:53.050 Brylle Girang: We’re just missing Zoran at the bottom, just a moment.
6 00:07:22.440 ⇒ 00:07:24.349 Robert Tseng: I don’t think Utam’s gonna join.
7 00:07:29.550 ⇒ 00:07:30.230 Brylle Girang: Okay.
8 00:07:30.390 ⇒ 00:07:34.769 Brylle Girang: So, I think on my end, our biggest risk for…
9 00:07:35.250 ⇒ 00:07:39.930 Brylle Girang: the rest of the following week is that both of our SLs, Sam and
10 00:07:40.800 ⇒ 00:07:46.329 Brylle Girang: a wish, or on leave, so I think for the CSOs here, we would need to
11 00:07:46.730 ⇒ 00:07:52.319 Brylle Girang: Temporarily manage the engineers if there’s anything needed to be done on the service side of things.
12 00:07:52.530 ⇒ 00:07:55.960 Brylle Girang: if you need help, Putam’s there.
13 00:07:56.190 ⇒ 00:08:05.559 Brylle Girang: Robert’s here, so please just let us know if there are any blockers that’s going to be affecting the client and our goals for the week.
14 00:08:06.280 ⇒ 00:08:14.459 Brylle Girang: Aside from that, for ABC, Pranav, I think, Otam has reviewed the, the, our, our roadmap for…
15 00:08:14.600 ⇒ 00:08:17.839 Brylle Girang: For the rest of the week and the rest of the month.
16 00:08:18.580 ⇒ 00:08:33.760 Brylle Girang: I’m just waiting for his concrete feedback, but he will… he will provide it for both Eden and ABC. But on my end so far, the PRD is in a good spot for my standards. I’m not just sure if it will be sufficient for OTAM, but…
17 00:08:33.970 ⇒ 00:08:37.890 Brylle Girang: Let’s be prepared to make adjustments later. Oh, there we go.
18 00:08:41.030 ⇒ 00:08:42.069 Uttam Kumaran: Hey guys, good morning.
19 00:08:42.830 ⇒ 00:08:43.960 Brylle Girang: Hello, morning.
20 00:08:44.580 ⇒ 00:08:47.900 Uttam Kumaran: I think we’re missing… we’re gonna miss Awash, and…
21 00:08:48.170 ⇒ 00:08:51.480 Uttam Kumaran: Sam, right? Is Doron joining?
22 00:08:54.210 ⇒ 00:08:56.890 Brylle Girang: I sent him a nudge, but no response yet.
23 00:08:57.870 ⇒ 00:08:58.470 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
24 00:08:58.620 ⇒ 00:09:12.869 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I don’t… I didn’t see him yesterday either, so… yeah, let’s send him a no. Yeah, but let’s get started. I think two, pieces just I want to hit. First is Default and Eden, so maybe, Greg, if you just give me the…
25 00:09:13.060 ⇒ 00:09:20.950 Uttam Kumaran: like, kind of plan of attack on… on default, and then I think we can discuss, probably close that out, and then we can talk about Eden stuff.
26 00:09:22.330 ⇒ 00:09:43.039 Greg Stoutenburg: Sure, yep, on default, the product analytics workstream is going along well. You know, same position that we’ve kind of been in for a while, which is that we are setting up dashboards in post hog as pieces go into staging for Phoenix. That’s, I mean, that’s going along well. We’ve continued to demonstrate value there. I think they’re happy.
27 00:09:44.650 ⇒ 00:10:02.529 Greg Stoutenburg: I think… I think that’s… that’s default on that, on that portion of it. I’ll be syncing with Demi right after this call to, sort of work through a status update on the… the data side of things. It looks like there’s been a bunch of work that’s come out, just sort of catching up through Slack, and we’ll be kind.
28 00:10:02.530 ⇒ 00:10:17.369 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, let’s just do… Yeah, let’s just do that now, because I just want to make sure that you have that update, or if I need to just present on that section. So, I think the product analytics workstream is great, but all eyes right now on this contract are on…
29 00:10:17.530 ⇒ 00:10:32.459 Uttam Kumaran: the data work. So, we have both this dashboard that’s going out for LoRa, we also have a few more dashboards slotted, for which there’s a ton of modeling work. As many of those that can go out and start getting QA’d by
30 00:10:32.550 ⇒ 00:10:47.389 Uttam Kumaran: the default team is, like, the number one priority right now, so I really, like, I think the product analytics work is clearly stalled. Like, it’s not your bad, but, like, everything that’s been talked about the last two weeks has all been focused on
31 00:10:47.450 ⇒ 00:11:03.990 Uttam Kumaran: data modeling and dashboards, so can we just, like, hash it out right now, and, like, the status, and then if it’s unclear, then I can take that section, and present on it, but, like, I really don’t want to, I really don’t want to have you present if you’re shaky on that stuff.
32 00:11:04.800 ⇒ 00:11:18.049 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, yeah, fair enough. So, yeah, I mean, I’d be relying on Demi’s update and, and Slack here. And, and then what we talked about in the last default sync, as far as the dashboard goes. Well, I guess, like, do you… do you…
33 00:11:18.050 ⇒ 00:11:23.419 Uttam Kumaran: Do you have, like, are you… do you feel like you know what’s going on there, or no?
34 00:11:23.550 ⇒ 00:11:24.160 Uttam Kumaran: I guess it’s my.
35 00:11:24.160 ⇒ 00:11:32.879 Greg Stoutenburg: No, I could not… I could not right now, like, so, so, hypothetically, right? Like, Caitlin’s on the call now, and it’s like, okay, you know, Greg, where are we at, broadly speaking?
36 00:11:32.880 ⇒ 00:11:39.019 Uttam Kumaran: Then I’m gonna… then I guess, like, I’m gonna take that second. Like, it’s fine. Yeah.
37 00:11:39.780 ⇒ 00:11:46.950 Demilade Agboola: I mean, that’s kind of why I reached out to Greg, so, like, I could brief him on what’s been going on, while he’s been out, so if…
38 00:11:48.150 ⇒ 00:11:52.230 Demilade Agboola: Just so that there is some fluency when Greg is presenting.
39 00:11:52.470 ⇒ 00:12:07.430 Uttam Kumaran: Like, I don’t… I don’t care as much as, like, who presents, like, we have to nail it, because this client already felt that, like, we were dropping the ball on the data modeling and the dashboard work stream. So, I guess for today, like, how about we just do this? I’ll present.
40 00:12:07.430 ⇒ 00:12:13.739 Uttam Kumaran: on the data modeling and the dashboard stuff, but I think it’s still important, Greg, for you to get ramped up there.
41 00:12:14.040 ⇒ 00:12:14.400 Greg Stoutenburg: Yikes.
42 00:12:14.400 ⇒ 00:12:29.839 Uttam Kumaran: just cannot deal with any… I can’t deal with any risks on this, or I can’t, like… even if you get the talking points, and they ask one follow-up question, and you get jammed, I’m gonna have to step in, so… I’ll just take those sections. I would love to, like, lead…
43 00:12:30.000 ⇒ 00:12:38.749 Uttam Kumaran: the call with that, because it’s the most important thing right now. And then, like, I’d love to just look forward to next week, if you can take it.
44 00:12:38.750 ⇒ 00:12:40.340 Greg Stoutenburg: Correct. Yep, sounds good.
45 00:12:43.480 ⇒ 00:12:59.269 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. I still think, like, continue forward with, like, getting knowledge transfer from Demi. And then, yeah, I think this is sort of, like, covering a lot on, like, okay, what are great, like, SaaS metrics and things like that. So I think continuing to get deeper there is gonna be helpful overall.
46 00:12:59.270 ⇒ 00:13:07.380 Uttam Kumaran: And I would love to see how next week, you know, you’re sort of driving it, and I’ll still be there to play backup, but let’s plan on that for next week.
47 00:13:10.050 ⇒ 00:13:14.310 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, let’s… let’s talk about, Eden stuff.
48 00:13:14.450 ⇒ 00:13:21.669 Uttam Kumaran: I guess the decision… I know… I think there’s some planning today. Like anything, we want to discuss
49 00:13:22.060 ⇒ 00:13:27.049 Uttam Kumaran: for Eden work streams, I can… I can talk about the Eden AI stuff, but, yeah.
50 00:13:31.200 ⇒ 00:13:47.079 Robert Tseng: Yeah, well, our roadmap planning got pushed out to today, like, in a couple hours, so I don’t think we have… I don’t have any more to share about that right now. But yeah, you did an AI kickoff call is tomorrow, so… Okay. Yeah, I think we… we had met yesterday.
51 00:13:47.080 ⇒ 00:14:00.270 Robert Tseng: me, Pranav, and Sam, you know, just kind of… just aligning on the internal SOW. They haven’t broken it out into… there’s no Gantt, yeah, there’s no… they haven’t broken it out into tickets or anything, so I think, we were just…
52 00:14:00.370 ⇒ 00:14:03.779 Robert Tseng: kind of just waiting for the kickoff call tomorrow, I guess.
53 00:14:04.770 ⇒ 00:14:16.320 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah, so I guess I’ll push back, I’m not gonna wait for that call, meaning I’m gonna… we’re gonna try to fill out as much as possible going in there, so that it’s gonna be more about, like, here’s what we proposed.
54 00:14:16.360 ⇒ 00:14:23.360 Uttam Kumaran: where do we adjust? So, what I’m… what we’re gonna do on the delivery team is, I think yesterday I got some…
55 00:14:23.360 ⇒ 00:14:37.039 Uttam Kumaran: I got a link regarding the Eden AI stuff, so it’s on my plate to review, and then I can give feedback. Similarly for ABC, Pranav, I think I… I owe some feedback on, if we got a new doc ready for option B.
56 00:14:38.320 ⇒ 00:14:41.069 Pranav Narahari: Yeah, I have that… that doc should be there.
57 00:14:41.070 ⇒ 00:14:41.390 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
58 00:14:41.390 ⇒ 00:14:58.040 Pranav Narahari: Let me know if you can’t find it. And then for Eden, too, like, in the meantime, like, you know, since, you know, we have the kickoff tomorrow, I can kind of just give you a high level of, like, what the Eden Dock has, and you can let me know if I need to fill it out more. It’s just right now, the Eden Dock is just milestones. I haven’t broke it down into tickets.
59 00:14:58.040 ⇒ 00:15:05.279 Pranav Narahari: Okay. The milestones are pretty, like, detailed, and I think that would be good enough for a kickoff, but you can let me know.
60 00:15:05.640 ⇒ 00:15:09.110 Uttam Kumaran: And was there any, like, estimation on hours yet, or no?
61 00:15:09.560 ⇒ 00:15:17.030 Pranav Narahari: I did rough estimations in terms of weeks, so, like, I did, assuming, like, 15 hours per week for 120 hours for 2 months.
62 00:15:17.470 ⇒ 00:15:23.750 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, cool. Okay, great, so both of those I can review as soon as I can, and then give feedback.
63 00:15:25.160 ⇒ 00:15:27.489 Uttam Kumaran: That’s perfect. Cool.
64 00:15:27.490 ⇒ 00:15:36.570 Pranav Narahari: And then, so I have a meeting for ABC later today where I was hoping to present some of the, like, roadmap for April and May. I mean…
65 00:15:36.720 ⇒ 00:15:39.909 Pranav Narahari: if I do it later, it’s not a big deal. I can just be like, hey, we’re finalizing.
66 00:15:39.910 ⇒ 00:15:43.269 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’ll have it for you, I’ll do it right after this.
67 00:15:43.800 ⇒ 00:15:44.969 Pranav Narahari: Okay, that’s perfect.
68 00:15:45.210 ⇒ 00:15:48.259 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool. And then, do you need help with slides?
69 00:15:48.850 ⇒ 00:16:00.819 Pranav Narahari: I was gonna, you know, push out the slides, right, maybe after you give me some feedback. I can start working on them right after this, actually, and then I doubt there’s gonna be, like, some crazy updates from your end on that roadmap.
70 00:16:00.820 ⇒ 00:16:08.640 Uttam Kumaran: in terms of, like, what’s been done this week section, that could be good, and then you’ll have enough for the rest.
71 00:16:09.310 ⇒ 00:16:09.870 Pranav Narahari: Yeah.
72 00:16:12.200 ⇒ 00:16:12.880 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
73 00:16:13.760 ⇒ 00:16:15.660 Uttam Kumaran: Great.
74 00:16:16.180 ⇒ 00:16:34.470 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, and then on the elements side, I think the decision, like, kind of, like, a couple things. So, I’m trying to push off on, like, us ramping up time until this contract gets signed. So, effectively, like, I think, Robert, the amount of work that you guys are just doing to plan, I think, is…
75 00:16:34.610 ⇒ 00:16:42.799 Uttam Kumaran: is helpful, but really what I need shorter term is just someone to own, like, I think, Greg, just for you to, like, own
76 00:16:43.250 ⇒ 00:16:59.640 Uttam Kumaran: Omni, and be able to, like, drive that. Otherwise, I’m… I’m sort of talking about, like, I’m owning, like, almost 5 different work streams right now, alone. Like, I’m pushing ingestion, I’m pushing modeling, I’m pushing dashboarding, and I’m talking about the contract, and I’m…
77 00:16:59.680 ⇒ 00:17:03.650 Uttam Kumaran: presenting, like, I’m kind of in a jam,
78 00:17:03.810 ⇒ 00:17:19.619 Uttam Kumaran: So I… the Omni piece would really take, like, a huge thing off of me, and then… I can handle the modeling and ingestion piece and the presentations, but, like, that’s just something I would really, like, appreciate some help with.
79 00:17:19.740 ⇒ 00:17:27.279 Uttam Kumaran: This is, again, yeah, I think the last piece is Shivani is gonna send some stuff.
80 00:17:27.359 ⇒ 00:17:37.969 Uttam Kumaran: She already sent some stuff to me, I’m gonna loop you in. I just wanna be really, really cognizant of the fact that you’ve been out, so, like, anything… I don’t… I don’t… what I don’t wanna see is, like.
81 00:17:37.970 ⇒ 00:17:50.839 Uttam Kumaran: hey, I’m catching up, hey, I’m catching up, like, I will… if you… if you have that, I will catch you up right now, or whenever, but I, like… it’s already been 2 weeks since we, like, kicked off the Omni stuff, and we’re, like.
82 00:17:50.880 ⇒ 00:17:55.920 Uttam Kumaran: I rushed earlier this week to, like, Pushed random stuff out, but…
83 00:17:56.470 ⇒ 00:18:12.959 Uttam Kumaran: what I really don’t want to send her, because I’m telling you she’s gonna call me, and then I’m gonna… I’m literally gonna conference you in, because I cannot get, like, heat for this. So, I would really just love, like, as much really detailed organization on the Omni stuff.
84 00:18:13.180 ⇒ 00:18:17.640 Uttam Kumaran: And, like, making noise on that is possible today. That would be really, really helpful.
85 00:18:18.580 ⇒ 00:18:25.629 Greg Stoutenburg: Got it. She sent me a spreadsheet yesterday, I haven’t had a chance to look at it, Omni Preparation revenue versus sales versus POS.
86 00:18:28.410 ⇒ 00:18:29.020 Greg Stoutenburg: babe.
87 00:18:29.270 ⇒ 00:18:32.639 Uttam Kumaran: I, I think there’s something else in my inbox, I’ll just chat.
88 00:18:32.640 ⇒ 00:18:33.010 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
89 00:18:33.010 ⇒ 00:18:52.979 Uttam Kumaran: But, like, if we can just be, like, really unified on that, and then any message that comes from her, if you’re like, how do I respond to this? Like, I’ll help you do it. I just want to really caution against delaying anything further, like, we… we really cannot. So, worst case, you’re like, hey, I’m not sure how to answer this, like, I’ll just help you… help you do that. I really, like, if…
90 00:18:52.990 ⇒ 00:19:03.150 Uttam Kumaran: the risk right now is if, like, I keep pushing the Omni stuff, then she’s gonna… she’s basically gonna be like, what is Greg doing? I mean, she’s already kind of said that to me, so… I…
91 00:19:03.220 ⇒ 00:19:10.020 Uttam Kumaran: really need some noise on that. So that’s… I feel like across…
92 00:19:10.160 ⇒ 00:19:15.960 Uttam Kumaran: like, I hope that I took the default thing a little bit off your plate, but, like, that is really, like, a huge help for me today.
93 00:19:16.830 ⇒ 00:19:26.180 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, let’s… let’s definitely work on that. I did try, you know, while out to be in communication with her, so hopefully she didn’t think I just dropped off the map, but.
94 00:19:26.180 ⇒ 00:19:33.220 Uttam Kumaran: No, I think she knows you were traveling, but, like, again, I’m telling you, like, she… it will not matter for this client.
95 00:19:33.220 ⇒ 00:19:34.200 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
96 00:19:34.200 ⇒ 00:19:40.739 Uttam Kumaran: we have to get what we promised done, regardless. So, yeah, I just…
97 00:19:40.880 ⇒ 00:19:48.550 Uttam Kumaran: If that can get taken off my plate, I feel really good. If not, then I’m gonna have another, like, 14-hour day today, doing… dealing with that.
98 00:19:48.860 ⇒ 00:19:51.089 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, so let me,
99 00:19:51.900 ⇒ 00:19:57.559 Greg Stoutenburg: Let me review some things today. I’ve got a… I’ve got a wall of calls from 10.30 through 2… no.
100 00:19:57.560 ⇒ 00:19:59.270 Uttam Kumaran: What are the, what are the calls?
101 00:20:00.490 ⇒ 00:20:10.639 Greg Stoutenburg: Omnicatch-up with, Edvate and Amber. I mean, you know, Eden Stand Up, that’s a daily. An interview…
102 00:20:12.560 ⇒ 00:20:13.599 Greg Stoutenburg: Eden more than…
103 00:20:13.600 ⇒ 00:20:15.969 Uttam Kumaran: What is the Omni ketchup?
104 00:20:16.470 ⇒ 00:20:21.669 Greg Stoutenburg: To align with Amber and Advait on the status of the Omni project and our next steps.
105 00:20:21.670 ⇒ 00:20:27.099 Uttam Kumaran: Advay just joined, has no clue. Amber needs to be taking instructions from you, so I would cancel that.
106 00:20:27.500 ⇒ 00:20:34.820 Uttam Kumaran: I can spend and actually take the time and figure it out. Like, don’t meet with… don’t meet with anyone until you have, like, a clear understanding.
107 00:20:34.990 ⇒ 00:20:39.080 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. And then the interview, can I… can we push that? What… who is that?
108 00:20:39.630 ⇒ 00:20:43.990 Greg Stoutenburg: There’s a final interview with… Garrett, Robert, and Amber.
109 00:20:43.990 ⇒ 00:20:46.090 Robert Tseng: another CSO guy.
110 00:20:47.250 ⇒ 00:20:48.340 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. I mean, I don’t…
111 00:20:48.340 ⇒ 00:20:55.380 Robert Tseng: I would like to push it, but I… I mean, I don’t know, we… I’m not… I don’t really feel like it’s urgent for me to take that fall item.
112 00:20:55.380 ⇒ 00:21:02.800 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna push… so let me push that off your play, too. Okay, so that’s 2… that’s 2 out of 4. Wait, what else did you have?
113 00:21:02.800 ⇒ 00:21:04.969 Greg Stoutenburg: Default… Default sync at 2.
114 00:21:06.320 ⇒ 00:21:09.090 Uttam Kumaran: And that’s… that’s for the presentation, okay?
115 00:21:09.090 ⇒ 00:21:10.700 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, that’s the weekly.
116 00:21:10.840 ⇒ 00:21:11.480 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
117 00:21:11.480 ⇒ 00:21:13.419 Uttam Kumaran: And then the Eden stuff, right?
118 00:21:13.860 ⇒ 00:21:17.479 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, and then, let’s see, who is… who’s this? I did not… I didn’t schedule this.
119 00:21:17.480 ⇒ 00:21:27.929 Uttam Kumaran: So why don’t we just push the… well, okay, the default presentation is fine, but I guess, why don’t we… do you have any other default stuff before that, or no?
120 00:21:28.340 ⇒ 00:21:34.679 Greg Stoutenburg: Not other default stuff before that. I have, it looks like someone at…
121 00:21:35.270 ⇒ 00:21:37.590 Greg Stoutenburg: Eden asked for a call with…
122 00:21:38.270 ⇒ 00:21:46.169 Greg Stoutenburg: Amber and me? Well, I’m marked optional, I could just let it go. Something on Omni, it’s an Omni request from, from Eden.
123 00:21:46.410 ⇒ 00:21:48.050 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah, I mean, I think…
124 00:21:48.210 ⇒ 00:21:52.710 Uttam Kumaran: Today should look a lot like Eden and Element stuff.
125 00:21:52.920 ⇒ 00:22:01.069 Uttam Kumaran: like, let me just take the default stuff off your plate. So, like, I think still kick the presentation off, and then I’ll take the data section.
126 00:22:01.200 ⇒ 00:22:04.609 Uttam Kumaran: And then I… yeah, I wanna buy you as much time as possible, so…
127 00:22:04.610 ⇒ 00:22:04.930 Greg Stoutenburg: Got it.
128 00:22:04.930 ⇒ 00:22:18.890 Uttam Kumaran: And this is just a good example for everybody, if you feel like you’re in meetings and you want help getting out of them, you just raise your hand and be like, I’m in meetings, I will just do this thing that we just did for you.
129 00:22:19.130 ⇒ 00:22:19.750 Uttam Kumaran: the.
130 00:22:19.750 ⇒ 00:22:35.139 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, that sounds good, and then just, you know, since this is the call for this sort of thing, with the clients that I’ve been on for the last few weeks, I do often feel like… I’m like, when am I supposed to actually do… when am I supposed to actually deliver anything? You know, I feel like I’ve been in, like, lots and lots of calls that eat into
131 00:22:35.140 ⇒ 00:22:40.180 Greg Stoutenburg: you know, focus time pretty deeply. So, yeah, glad we.
132 00:22:40.180 ⇒ 00:22:40.510 Uttam Kumaran: images.
133 00:22:40.510 ⇒ 00:22:41.550 Greg Stoutenburg: Talk about this one.
134 00:22:42.010 ⇒ 00:22:58.050 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think exactly, like, if you’re fine… I think this is one thing that broadly, we’re gonna… we talked about, last Friday, like, and we’re gonna talk sort of going into Q2, but there’s a lot of time being spent on internal meetings, and so here’s a couple of tips. I think one.
135 00:22:58.230 ⇒ 00:23:02.360 Uttam Kumaran: Again, if you start your day with, like, what is the most important one or two things.
136 00:23:02.440 ⇒ 00:23:15.970 Uttam Kumaran: make sure that your calendar reflects that. Like, yes, we love to interview new people, yes, we want to talk to new team members, but ultimately, like, there will be no new people or no new team members if we lose some of these clients.
137 00:23:15.970 ⇒ 00:23:21.419 Uttam Kumaran: So, I… you guys have the permission to sort of just keep moving things. Like, this crew…
138 00:23:21.420 ⇒ 00:23:41.010 Uttam Kumaran: is… should be, like, the people that are delivering and actually driving projects forward. Like, assign meetings to other people, or just tell them, hey, this needs to be kicked. Nobody will bat an eye. So really try to buy, like, 6 hours, if you can, of, like, free time. Like, my schedule should not…
139 00:23:41.370 ⇒ 00:24:00.489 Uttam Kumaran: you should not match to, like, my schedule. I think really try to make sure that you’re delivering on the work that you’re doing. There’s a couple things. Client meetings, like, it’s gonna be hard to avoid. So, two things you can do. You can book them earlier in the day, or you can book them later in the day. My strategy is to try to do that so that I can keep the middle of the day
140 00:24:00.490 ⇒ 00:24:02.690 Uttam Kumaran: Three, if I can.
141 00:24:03.830 ⇒ 00:24:14.739 Uttam Kumaran: The other thing you can do is if a meeting with a client is sort of, like, not the number one priority, and if the client… if the client stakeholder themselves would ask you, why did we spend time on that?
142 00:24:14.810 ⇒ 00:24:21.580 Uttam Kumaran: push that meeting, too. Like, we’re here to deliver on our objectives. We’re not here to just meet with everybody.
143 00:24:21.850 ⇒ 00:24:34.030 Uttam Kumaran: So, if you can… I would say then, if you actually have a meeting, if it’s an hour long, make it 30 minutes. If it’s 30 minutes, try to make it 15 minutes. Like, try these things,
144 00:24:34.230 ⇒ 00:24:48.889 Uttam Kumaran: and lean on as much async as possible. I think it’s really easy in a remote company to try to just meet, but we can do a lot of stuff over Slack, especially with this crew. So, I think that exercise that we did today was just gonna show you that, like.
145 00:24:49.130 ⇒ 00:24:50.180 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
146 00:24:50.360 ⇒ 00:25:10.200 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t… what I don’t want to… what I don’t want to hear is that, hey, I’m in a lot of meetings, like, and I get that that’s a problem, but here I am trying to just be helpful and push that off, so… does anyone else feel like today or tomorrow is just, like, a shitload of meetings, and, like, wants some decisions on how to fix that?
147 00:25:16.110 ⇒ 00:25:17.450 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool.
148 00:25:17.940 ⇒ 00:25:31.500 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, and also, because Awash, and Sam are out, like, I just want to make sure everybody is, like, locked in. So, Greg, I’ll move… I’ll have Kayla move that interview, and you kind of have the rest, right? So…
149 00:25:31.500 ⇒ 00:25:39.530 Greg Stoutenburg: Well, both of… well, I don’t know, it might be harder to find time with Robert and me and the candidate at the same time, so… I don’t know, I guess it’s a…
150 00:25:39.760 ⇒ 00:25:46.499 Uttam Kumaran: But, like, I think the decision is move the interview, right? But let me figure that out. I’m telling you, like.
151 00:25:47.290 ⇒ 00:26:04.350 Uttam Kumaran: even if we hire this guy, if we lose default, we will know… we will not hire that guy. So, it is really, really simple. So let me move that, and then, yeah, just, like, keep slacking me today, and lock in on those two. I think that’d be really, really helpful.
152 00:26:04.610 ⇒ 00:26:09.730 Robert Tseng: I had a block for default, like, for an hour this morning. Do you still want me to…
153 00:26:09.960 ⇒ 00:26:12.519 Robert Tseng: Look at default strategy, like.
154 00:26:12.840 ⇒ 00:26:16.670 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I mean, I think that was something you had mentioned on Monday, so I don’t.
155 00:26:16.670 ⇒ 00:26:17.509 Uttam Kumaran: I said, I couldn’t get to.
156 00:26:17.510 ⇒ 00:26:18.560 Robert Tseng: Until end of week.
157 00:26:18.560 ⇒ 00:26:31.070 Uttam Kumaran: At this point, like, the thing that’s important to me is that just these presentations and the day-to-day gets moved off my plate, so I don’t… I’m now back in it, so I’m helping them decide on metrics and stuff, so it’s okay.
158 00:26:31.410 ⇒ 00:26:33.510 Robert Tseng: Okay, so I’ll remove that.
159 00:26:38.450 ⇒ 00:26:39.390 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
160 00:26:39.780 ⇒ 00:26:40.770 Uttam Kumaran: What else?
161 00:26:42.370 ⇒ 00:26:44.300 Pranav Narahari: I was gonna ask about,
162 00:26:44.570 ⇒ 00:26:49.500 Pranav Narahari: new, like, CSO SL kind of, I think, docs we were talking about.
163 00:26:49.500 ⇒ 00:26:52.060 Uttam Kumaran: It’s gonna be, like, after next week.
164 00:26:52.600 ⇒ 00:26:53.320 Pranav Narahari: Okay. Sounds good.
165 00:26:53.320 ⇒ 00:26:56.549 Uttam Kumaran: leading up to the end of the quarter. I don’t have it done.
166 00:26:57.490 ⇒ 00:26:59.990 Pranav Narahari: Okay, cool. Yeah, I was just asking, kind of.
167 00:27:00.410 ⇒ 00:27:06.779 Pranav Narahari: Because I’m not really sure with, like, Sam being out, like, what changes that much.
168 00:27:07.130 ⇒ 00:27:11.240 Pranav Narahari: Because I feel like I was kind of…
169 00:27:11.790 ⇒ 00:27:17.130 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, nothing should change. Again, I’m just gonna say out loud, like, between now and the end of the quarter.
170 00:27:17.430 ⇒ 00:27:21.509 Uttam Kumaran: If we can just make sure that the clients we talked about today are, like.
171 00:27:21.990 ⇒ 00:27:27.120 Uttam Kumaran: good? That would be so, so helpful. Don’t worry about anything else.
172 00:27:27.220 ⇒ 00:27:45.290 Uttam Kumaran: It’s really getting, like, tough for me to do any other work, because I’m running, sort of, 3 or 4 clients. So if these can all get just, like, in a good spot by the end of the quarter, like, next… like, this week and next week will be very productive, and I’ll answer every question about…
173 00:27:45.800 ⇒ 00:27:54.340 Uttam Kumaran: sort of the delivery team going forward. If this can’t hap… if this can’t happen, then we won’t be able to talk about roles and things like that until it does, because…
174 00:27:54.540 ⇒ 00:28:01.269 Uttam Kumaran: there’s nothing… there’s… there’s nothing to do beyond just making sure that these can get done, you know, so…
175 00:28:01.270 ⇒ 00:28:01.930 Pranav Narahari: Yep.
176 00:28:01.930 ⇒ 00:28:02.550 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
177 00:28:06.060 ⇒ 00:28:13.770 Demilade Agboola: I don’t know if you saw, but, like, I would also need to sync with you on default, so that you’re in a good spot prior to the meeting, and kind of know…
178 00:28:16.240 ⇒ 00:28:17.180 Demilade Agboola: What’s been going on?
179 00:28:17.180 ⇒ 00:28:17.740 Uttam Kumaran: 8th?
180 00:28:17.740 ⇒ 00:28:21.830 Demilade Agboola: The nitty-gritty of the… Modeling and the goals of that.
181 00:28:22.370 ⇒ 00:28:23.270 Uttam Kumaran: with me.
182 00:28:23.590 ⇒ 00:28:24.280 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, yeah.
183 00:28:24.720 ⇒ 00:28:26.360 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, okay, I can do that.
184 00:28:27.850 ⇒ 00:28:28.540 Demilade Agboola: So…
185 00:28:30.130 ⇒ 00:28:31.159 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so I’m…
186 00:28:31.390 ⇒ 00:28:40.219 Uttam Kumaran: I’m somehow very, very free until default, so my job is, one, I’m gonna knock out the ABC and the Eden reviews.
187 00:28:40.370 ⇒ 00:28:50.359 Uttam Kumaran: I’m then gonna move to everything element, so Greg, like, if you’re free, like, and we start to coordinate, I can call you. And then I’m gonna move to default.
188 00:28:52.890 ⇒ 00:28:57.999 Demilade Agboola: Oh, okay, alright, I’ll do… I’m currently working on the sheet for…
189 00:28:58.410 ⇒ 00:29:01.350 Demilade Agboola: Our representation, like, later today.
190 00:29:02.070 ⇒ 00:29:10.209 Demilade Agboola: Okay. But yeah, I will just, like, potentially let you know stuff around, like, equals, and, like, the issues with equals, and, like… Exactly.
191 00:29:10.210 ⇒ 00:29:10.690 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
192 00:29:10.690 ⇒ 00:29:15.319 Demilade Agboola: Those sort of details, so that you’re able to speak on it.
193 00:29:15.320 ⇒ 00:29:16.040 Uttam Kumaran: Perfect.
194 00:29:16.930 ⇒ 00:29:20.959 Demilade Agboola: And also, like, why our numbers are better, and all that stuff.
195 00:29:21.680 ⇒ 00:29:22.360 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
196 00:29:27.400 ⇒ 00:29:31.100 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, guys, how do we feel? Okay?
197 00:29:32.620 ⇒ 00:29:33.279 Uttam Kumaran: Sounds good.
198 00:29:33.280 ⇒ 00:29:37.120 Demilade Agboola: It’s been really good, especially on, like, defaults, I feel like our numbers are good.
199 00:29:37.120 ⇒ 00:29:43.550 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think default, you really crushed the modeling thing, I just want to make sure we present that we’re getting all this shit out, you know?
200 00:29:43.870 ⇒ 00:29:47.320 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, because I don’t know if you saw, but Laura asked questions about why our normal.
201 00:29:47.320 ⇒ 00:29:49.049 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I saw that, I saw that, yeah.
202 00:29:49.050 ⇒ 00:29:55.950 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, I’ve been able to respond to that and show her, like, yo, like, these numbers that you were using from Nicole’s were wrong, so basically you were…
203 00:29:56.240 ⇒ 00:29:58.440 Demilade Agboola: You know, using wrong numbers for your business.
204 00:29:58.580 ⇒ 00:29:59.529 Demilade Agboola: And then…
205 00:29:59.530 ⇒ 00:30:02.230 Uttam Kumaran: for the… for the Salesforce stuff, like…
206 00:30:02.970 ⇒ 00:30:04.799 Uttam Kumaran: You guys are already working on that?
207 00:30:05.630 ⇒ 00:30:13.839 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, yeah, so right now, I know Mustafa’s been able to push some models for, some of the custom enablement stuff. I’m going to, like, look at that.
208 00:30:13.960 ⇒ 00:30:15.800 Demilade Agboola: More in depth today.
209 00:30:16.720 ⇒ 00:30:28.879 Demilade Agboola: Mustafa is out of office tomorrow, so, so the goal today is… we’ll go through a lot of that today, kind of look at the dashboard that we have based off of that, and then I will try and plug in the remaining gaps.
210 00:30:29.060 ⇒ 00:30:38.649 Demilade Agboola: In the models that he pushed. So I’m going to be going through the numbers and just ensuring that we’re… the numbers are right and accurate, and we can put them in front of the client.
211 00:30:38.930 ⇒ 00:30:39.270 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
212 00:30:39.270 ⇒ 00:30:47.800 Demilade Agboola: And then… yeah, QuickBooks, I just will round that up today. So, effectively, we should have about 3 dashboards by end of week.
213 00:30:49.440 ⇒ 00:30:50.720 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, okay.
214 00:30:51.580 ⇒ 00:30:52.230 Demilade Agboola: So…
215 00:30:55.620 ⇒ 00:30:59.909 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool. Alright. Thank you guys, let me know how I can help.
216 00:31:02.680 ⇒ 00:31:03.510 Demilade Agboola: Alright, sounds good.
217 00:31:03.510 ⇒ 00:31:04.010 Greg Stoutenburg: Thanks.
218 00:31:04.010 ⇒ 00:31:04.640 Demilade Agboola: Thank you, guys.
219 00:31:04.640 ⇒ 00:31:05.150 Uttam Kumaran: Thank you.