Meeting Title: Friday Brainforge Demos & Retro Date: 2026-04-17 Meeting participants: Girang, Brylle Sean, Carandang, Amber Lin, Kaela Gallagher, Garrett Gibson, Greg Stoutenburg, Robert Tseng, Jasmin Multani, Demilade Agboola, Rico Rejoso, Awaish Kumar, Ruixi Wen, Miranda Wen, Pranav Narahari, Advait Nandakumar Menon, Hannah Wang, Mustafa Raja
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1 00:00:49.170 ⇒ 00:00:50.430 Amber Lin: Hello!
2 00:00:51.030 ⇒ 00:00:53.630 Amber Lin: I’m excited for your fun facts.
3 00:00:53.740 ⇒ 00:00:56.090 Kaela Gallagher: Me too.
4 00:00:57.700 ⇒ 00:00:58.769 Kaela Gallagher: Can’t wait.
5 00:00:58.770 ⇒ 00:00:59.940 B: -Oh.
6 00:01:00.750 ⇒ 00:01:02.500 Amber Lin: Hi, bye. Hi, bro.
7 00:01:02.840 ⇒ 00:01:03.509 B: I was so…
8 00:01:03.510 ⇒ 00:01:05.810 Amber Lin: It’s just 3 of us.
9 00:01:06.250 ⇒ 00:01:12.240 B: I was so pressured with the fun facts of the other people, and I was like, wow, what am I doing within life?
10 00:01:15.360 ⇒ 00:01:21.819 Kaela Gallagher: Bea got… Bea got insight into the presentation, so he saw some of the fun facts, but I.
11 00:01:21.820 ⇒ 00:01:22.200 Amber Lin: Sure.
12 00:01:22.200 ⇒ 00:01:25.139 Kaela Gallagher: the names, so hopefully you didn’t look at the answers.
13 00:01:25.140 ⇒ 00:01:28.169 B: Yeah, I just saw yours and mine, but…
14 00:01:28.870 ⇒ 00:01:30.810 B: I was, I was taking guesses.
15 00:01:31.760 ⇒ 00:01:34.839 B: I know which Amber’s fun fact was.
16 00:01:35.320 ⇒ 00:01:38.899 Amber Lin: Oh, I don’t know if there’s mine in there.
17 00:01:40.870 ⇒ 00:01:42.699 B: Whoa, Aurelia, that’s interesting.
18 00:01:45.430 ⇒ 00:01:46.509 B: Let’s see.
19 00:01:46.990 ⇒ 00:01:48.140 Greg Stoutenburg: What’s up, team?
20 00:01:48.460 ⇒ 00:01:49.140 B: Hello, guys.
21 00:01:49.460 ⇒ 00:01:50.780 Kaela Gallagher: Hey, hey!
22 00:01:50.970 ⇒ 00:01:51.850 Greg Stoutenburg: Hello?
23 00:01:52.150 ⇒ 00:01:54.789 B: Where is your iconic background, Greg?
24 00:01:55.340 ⇒ 00:01:56.200 Greg Stoutenburg: I moved.
25 00:01:56.650 ⇒ 00:02:01.630 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh! It’s gone. It’s about… it’s about 12 minutes away.
26 00:02:01.890 ⇒ 00:02:02.709 B: I miss it.
27 00:02:02.710 ⇒ 00:02:04.340 Kaela Gallagher: All is gone!
28 00:02:04.470 ⇒ 00:02:06.199 B: I’m missing the door to Narnia.
29 00:02:06.630 ⇒ 00:02:13.420 Greg Stoutenburg: That’s right, I think I said… oh, that’s right, I think I said I was gonna make a fake background, that included that, and I totally forgot to do it.
30 00:02:13.970 ⇒ 00:02:16.799 Greg Stoutenburg: So, now there’s this jersey, and…
31 00:02:17.900 ⇒ 00:02:22.640 Greg Stoutenburg: I don’t know. Well, pretty soon, I’ll show you the view you’ll be seeing soon. Let me, let me move this.
32 00:02:23.100 ⇒ 00:02:26.759 Greg Stoutenburg: Because I don’t have my desk set up yet. So pretty soon, this is going to be the new…
33 00:02:26.990 ⇒ 00:02:29.819 Greg Stoutenburg: the new thing. It’ll be right about… right about there. So…
34 00:02:29.820 ⇒ 00:02:30.719 Kaela Gallagher: Nice.
35 00:02:30.720 ⇒ 00:02:32.759 Greg Stoutenburg: That’s weird. That’s like pointing at some bedrooms.
36 00:02:32.920 ⇒ 00:02:35.529 Greg Stoutenburg: I’m gonna have to do something about that. So, maybe…
37 00:02:35.830 ⇒ 00:02:37.129 B: Yeah, consult Feng Si.
38 00:02:37.130 ⇒ 00:02:41.389 Greg Stoutenburg: There’s all my un… there’s all my junk, still in boxes. I’ll figure it out.
39 00:02:41.490 ⇒ 00:02:42.849 Greg Stoutenburg: For now, this is it.
40 00:02:43.400 ⇒ 00:02:47.550 B: You know the feng shui guy in TikTok who’s, like, Judging…
41 00:02:47.550 ⇒ 00:02:49.820 Amber Lin: No, I keep seeing him.
42 00:02:49.820 ⇒ 00:02:50.400 B: It’s very…
43 00:02:50.400 ⇒ 00:02:52.580 Amber Lin: obsessed for a while.
44 00:02:58.560 ⇒ 00:02:59.719 B: Hey, everyone.
45 00:03:07.430 ⇒ 00:03:08.789 Kaela Gallagher: Cool hat, Robert!
46 00:03:10.530 ⇒ 00:03:13.679 Robert Tseng: Thank you, I just didn’t want to do anything in my hair today.
47 00:03:37.080 ⇒ 00:03:41.419 Robert Tseng: I’m pretty sure Utam’s not gonna join, because he’s, like, having Wi-Fi issues.
48 00:03:41.870 ⇒ 00:03:42.670 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
49 00:03:46.160 ⇒ 00:03:48.780 Kaela Gallagher: Okay. Robert, I can get us started.
50 00:03:48.780 ⇒ 00:03:49.120 Greg Stoutenburg: Get over.
51 00:03:49.120 ⇒ 00:03:50.079 Kaela Gallagher: if you want.
52 00:03:50.360 ⇒ 00:03:51.890 Greg Stoutenburg: Look what just showed up in the mail.
53 00:03:52.930 ⇒ 00:03:54.560 Greg Stoutenburg: This is Katie, everyone.
54 00:03:55.210 ⇒ 00:03:55.960 Kaela Gallagher: Hi!
55 00:03:55.960 ⇒ 00:03:56.330 B: Aye.
56 00:03:56.330 ⇒ 00:03:57.170 Robert Tseng: Hello!
57 00:03:57.170 ⇒ 00:03:58.250 Greg Stoutenburg: Got our almond package.
58 00:03:59.420 ⇒ 00:04:06.550 Greg Stoutenburg: It’s here. I hope it’s not carbonated. Yeah, that’s right. There’s a box of salt and water and flavor.
59 00:04:07.820 ⇒ 00:04:10.379 Robert Tseng: If you got the sparkling, it is carbonated.
60 00:04:11.210 ⇒ 00:04:14.880 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay. Well, we’ll have to open that slower, because she got pretty excited to present it.
61 00:04:15.030 ⇒ 00:04:16.050 Jasmin Multani: Aww.
62 00:04:16.050 ⇒ 00:04:20.459 Robert Tseng: The box… the boxing is, like, indestructible, so she’s gonna have a hard time with that.
63 00:04:22.490 ⇒ 00:04:27.309 Jasmin Multani: It’s good. Tell us what your favorite… favorite flavors are, so we know.
64 00:04:27.970 ⇒ 00:04:28.600 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
65 00:04:28.780 ⇒ 00:04:29.520 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I tried.
66 00:04:29.520 ⇒ 00:04:30.999 Robert Tseng: I think it’s too salty.
67 00:04:31.730 ⇒ 00:04:32.739 Greg Stoutenburg: It’s pretty self-p.
68 00:04:32.740 ⇒ 00:04:38.479 Robert Tseng: Pineapple… pineapple is our favorite so far. Black cherry tastes like medicine, so don’t get that.
69 00:04:40.470 ⇒ 00:04:41.339 Jasmin Multani: I…
70 00:04:41.340 ⇒ 00:04:48.569 Greg Stoutenburg: Cherry, like, as a flavor. It’s just been… it was using way too many medicines that we had as kids, and then you grow up, and you’re like, I can’t have cherry or anything now.
71 00:04:50.980 ⇒ 00:04:51.780 Kaela Gallagher: Yup.
72 00:04:58.230 ⇒ 00:05:06.980 Jasmin Multani: Or sorry, sorry, no, just a plug, a soft plug. I was able to try the Element, the Element…
73 00:05:07.120 ⇒ 00:05:25.209 Jasmin Multani: mix, literally 2 minutes before my acupuncture, and I do think that it made my muscles relax a lot more. The receptionist just gave me a free patch, and yeah, I think it’s worth pairing it with,
74 00:05:25.430 ⇒ 00:05:27.370 Jasmin Multani: Your actual wellness care.
75 00:05:30.030 ⇒ 00:05:31.339 Kaela Gallagher: Strong review.
76 00:05:31.340 ⇒ 00:05:35.540 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, that’s pretty good. I mean, I will say, I feel like things like,
77 00:05:35.660 ⇒ 00:05:46.520 Greg Stoutenburg: like, a post-workout recovery drink, or Element, or for that many, you know, other ones, have helped me, like, sleep better after a hockey game, I think. Like, I just feel a little better in the morning.
78 00:05:46.700 ⇒ 00:05:49.320 Greg Stoutenburg: Or I just made that up and it’s not true at all.
79 00:05:49.810 ⇒ 00:05:50.610 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
80 00:05:53.150 ⇒ 00:06:02.569 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, or just eat Doritos, like I pointed out the one time, I was like, I was like, how much salt is in, like, Doritos compared to an element packet? You just have to eat, like, a family-sized bag of Doritos, then you’re good.
81 00:06:04.110 ⇒ 00:06:06.280 Greg Stoutenburg: And I do that anyway, so…
82 00:06:09.370 ⇒ 00:06:12.289 Greg Stoutenburg: Alright, I’m gonna shut up, I’ve talked too much in the last 5 minutes.
83 00:06:14.280 ⇒ 00:06:22.909 Robert Tseng: All good, this is the one meeting we get to just say whatever. Whoa, Miranda, what the… is that… wait, has that always been your hair color?
84 00:06:23.120 ⇒ 00:06:27.440 Miranda Wen: Oh, no, I dyed my hair, like, last month, so…
85 00:06:27.440 ⇒ 00:06:30.489 Robert Tseng: Oh, wow, that’s cool. I guess I never saw… I never noticed.
86 00:06:30.620 ⇒ 00:06:35.060 Miranda Wen: Yeah, I think last time we talked, it’s, like, through this hair color, yeah.
87 00:06:35.060 ⇒ 00:06:36.490 Robert Tseng: Oh, I see.
88 00:06:36.490 ⇒ 00:06:37.940 Miranda Wen: Okay, cool.
89 00:06:38.130 ⇒ 00:06:39.090 Miranda Wen: Yeah.
90 00:06:39.950 ⇒ 00:06:46.580 Kaela Gallagher: Well, I can get us started. I’m hosting today’s meeting, so, I can share my screen.
91 00:06:47.110 ⇒ 00:06:49.190 Kaela Gallagher: Oh, hey Hannah, welcome back.
92 00:06:50.720 ⇒ 00:06:52.010 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
93 00:06:54.140 ⇒ 00:06:57.190 Kaela Gallagher: Awesome. Welcome to the Friday meeting, guys.
94 00:06:58.690 ⇒ 00:07:09.059 Kaela Gallagher: To get us started, we have our agenda pretty standard. We’ll do an icebreaker, and then go into updates, from each department, and then have some shoutouts at the end.
95 00:07:09.390 ⇒ 00:07:24.060 Kaela Gallagher: So, for our icebreaker today, we’re gonna be doing Guess Who. So, for each fun fact, you can unmute, drop a comment, and try to guess who this fun fact belongs to on the team.
96 00:07:24.360 ⇒ 00:07:25.300 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
97 00:07:26.260 ⇒ 00:07:27.530 Kaela Gallagher: Starting off.
98 00:07:27.690 ⇒ 00:07:31.369 Kaela Gallagher: I have a twin brother, and he is 10 minutes older.
99 00:07:33.190 ⇒ 00:07:35.450 Kaela Gallagher: Who do you guys think this belongs to?
100 00:07:36.370 ⇒ 00:07:38.870 Robert Tseng: We’re putting the answer in the chat, or are we just shouting it out?
101 00:07:39.370 ⇒ 00:07:40.600 Kaela Gallagher: shout it out.
102 00:07:45.140 ⇒ 00:07:46.209 Robert Tseng: Dave Mulatti.
103 00:07:48.370 ⇒ 00:07:54.280 Greg Stoutenburg: See, I was gonna guess Robert, but now I feel like, since he’s talking and making guesses, he’s… I don’t know if he’s throwing us off.
104 00:07:56.690 ⇒ 00:08:00.980 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, well, the answer is… So, Ron.
105 00:08:00.980 ⇒ 00:08:01.880 B: Wow!
106 00:08:02.330 ⇒ 00:08:02.940 Kaela Gallagher: And…
107 00:08:02.940 ⇒ 00:08:03.260 Robert Tseng: Whoa.
108 00:08:03.260 ⇒ 00:08:06.910 Kaela Gallagher: twin brother’s name is Goron.
109 00:08:07.260 ⇒ 00:08:07.920 Demilade Agboola: Oh!
110 00:08:07.920 ⇒ 00:08:09.720 Kaela Gallagher: I’m not sure if I’m saying it correctly.
111 00:08:10.400 ⇒ 00:08:11.010 Amber Lin: Wow.
112 00:08:11.010 ⇒ 00:08:13.259 Kaela Gallagher: names they’re squinting as well.
113 00:08:13.260 ⇒ 00:08:13.940 Demilade Agboola: Preston.
114 00:08:15.560 ⇒ 00:08:16.660 Kaela Gallagher: Alright. Why is he not.
115 00:08:16.660 ⇒ 00:08:18.579 Robert Tseng: I’m working here, we gotta go get him, too.
116 00:08:20.080 ⇒ 00:08:24.529 Kaela Gallagher: I know, I know, let me go recruit Goron, right?
117 00:08:25.360 ⇒ 00:08:29.029 Greg Stoutenburg: Can you imagine the marketing analytics workstream, you know, if we had both of them?
118 00:08:30.000 ⇒ 00:08:33.049 Robert Tseng: I know, that’d be so great.
119 00:08:34.710 ⇒ 00:08:37.879 Kaela Gallagher: Oh my gosh. B. Okay, cool.
120 00:08:37.880 ⇒ 00:08:39.230 Robert Tseng: Fast, thank you for the stock.
121 00:08:40.809 ⇒ 00:08:46.199 Kaela Gallagher: Next up, somebody on the team is getting their yoga teacher certification in May.
122 00:08:46.860 ⇒ 00:08:48.230 Greg Stoutenburg: That has to be Jasmine.
123 00:08:49.110 ⇒ 00:08:51.009 B: I feel like this is Amber.
124 00:08:52.190 ⇒ 00:08:53.050 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, I think.
125 00:08:53.050 ⇒ 00:08:57.599 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I have to say Jasmine as well, because we just had to talk about this yesterday.
126 00:08:57.800 ⇒ 00:08:58.710 Demilade Agboola: Wow.
127 00:09:00.580 ⇒ 00:09:04.970 Greg Stoutenburg: I just heard you say a lot about wellness. So, just, like, wellness stuff in general, that seems like a…
128 00:09:05.620 ⇒ 00:09:08.579 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, why is the sad face? Oh, no, Mr.
129 00:09:08.580 ⇒ 00:09:09.130 Robert Tseng: history, yeah.
130 00:09:09.130 ⇒ 00:09:11.600 Jasmin Multani: I’m not curious at all.
131 00:09:12.280 ⇒ 00:09:15.680 Jasmin Multani: Unfortunately, I’m an open book, and I talk too much.
132 00:09:17.200 ⇒ 00:09:21.700 Kaela Gallagher: Alrighty, next up, somebody on the team enjoys playing tennis.
133 00:09:21.880 ⇒ 00:09:25.500 B: This isn’t even a game, this is Demi, 100%.
134 00:09:27.140 ⇒ 00:09:28.010 Greg Stoutenburg: Yep, yep.
135 00:09:29.530 ⇒ 00:09:33.140 Kaela Gallagher: Could there be multiple people on the team that enjoy playing tennis?
136 00:09:33.140 ⇒ 00:09:34.190 Amber Lin: I, I thought…
137 00:09:34.190 ⇒ 00:09:34.560 Robert Tseng: Derek.
138 00:09:34.560 ⇒ 00:09:40.220 Amber Lin: Debbie would enjoy football, so I wouldn’t guess Debbie. I don’t know.
139 00:09:40.710 ⇒ 00:09:43.839 B: Oh, yeah, I think got it, okay. It’s good.
140 00:09:43.840 ⇒ 00:09:47.320 Kaela Gallagher: Cool.
141 00:09:47.530 ⇒ 00:09:51.000 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, somebody on the team lived in a van for 3 months.
142 00:09:53.070 ⇒ 00:09:55.590 Kaela Gallagher: Who would be great enough to do this?
143 00:09:55.590 ⇒ 00:10:04.439 Greg Stoutenburg: Lived in a van, yeah, we wanna know, we wanna know more. Like, lived in a van because, like, they didn’t have anywhere else to live, or lived in a van, like, because they were camping.
144 00:10:04.760 ⇒ 00:10:12.610 Demilade Agboola: I think the crazy part is that I think there are multiple people that could have done that. That’s… that’s the weird part. Like, I think what Tom could have, I think Greg could have.
145 00:10:13.140 ⇒ 00:10:14.110 Demilade Agboola: I don’t know.
146 00:10:17.140 ⇒ 00:10:18.130 Kaela Gallagher: Robert.
147 00:10:18.760 ⇒ 00:10:20.499 Kaela Gallagher: Would you like to elaborate?
148 00:10:20.500 ⇒ 00:10:21.170 Greg Stoutenburg: Makes sense.
149 00:10:21.800 ⇒ 00:10:29.660 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I mean, I guess, I got a camper van, and then I lived out of it. On one of my last remote roles, I,
150 00:10:29.830 ⇒ 00:10:35.689 Robert Tseng: I parked it in the parking lot of my office, and I would pretty much shower there and just go into work.
151 00:10:36.010 ⇒ 00:10:47.719 Robert Tseng: It was funny, because the office is right next to where South Park’s headquarters is, and there was, one time there was, like, a riot, and, like, people came and threw rocks at the, South Park office.
152 00:10:47.780 ⇒ 00:10:57.649 Robert Tseng: shadowed the windows, the alarms went off, so it kind of freaked me out, so I left that parking lot, and then I quickly ended up going to… I signed a lease and moved into an apartment instead.
153 00:10:58.050 ⇒ 00:11:04.159 Greg Stoutenburg: That’s an insane story. Every detail of that story can’t predict the detail after.
154 00:11:04.830 ⇒ 00:11:05.380 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
155 00:11:06.200 ⇒ 00:11:07.060 Kaela Gallagher: That’s cool.
156 00:11:07.060 ⇒ 00:11:08.919 Demilade Agboola: Herbert has lived quite the life.
157 00:11:09.030 ⇒ 00:11:09.869 Demilade Agboola: Do you know?
158 00:11:11.250 ⇒ 00:11:16.379 Demilade Agboola: of these, like, random stories that just come up in random conversation, and you’re like, wait, what?
159 00:11:16.850 ⇒ 00:11:18.909 Greg Stoutenburg: So anyway, when I was living in the van during the.
160 00:11:19.230 ⇒ 00:11:20.000 Kaela Gallagher: diet.
161 00:11:24.910 ⇒ 00:11:35.329 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, next up we have somebody who’s visited 48 out of the 50 US states, and the only two they haven’t visited are Hawaii and North Dakota.
162 00:11:35.960 ⇒ 00:11:38.849 Miranda Wen: Why not visiting Hawaii?
163 00:11:41.470 ⇒ 00:11:42.010 Demilade Agboola: This seems.
164 00:11:42.010 ⇒ 00:11:43.609 Kaela Gallagher: What’s the correct thing.
165 00:11:45.510 ⇒ 00:11:51.630 Greg Stoutenburg: I don’t know, that… someone went pretty far out of their way to, get Alaska and somehow skip North Dakota.
166 00:11:55.360 ⇒ 00:11:56.449 Robert Tseng: I think it’s pretty tough.
167 00:11:57.710 ⇒ 00:11:59.060 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, that sounds good.
168 00:12:00.990 ⇒ 00:12:05.399 Kaela Gallagher: Utom, Robert, okay, okay. This one is Sam.
169 00:12:05.790 ⇒ 00:12:06.570 Robert Tseng: Oh!
170 00:12:06.570 ⇒ 00:12:07.850 Demilade Agboola: Oh, interesting.
171 00:12:08.320 ⇒ 00:12:09.019 Pranav Narahari: I can see that.
172 00:12:09.020 ⇒ 00:12:10.070 Amber Lin: Oh…
173 00:12:10.680 ⇒ 00:12:11.590 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
174 00:12:12.200 ⇒ 00:12:13.280 Kaela Gallagher: Traveler.
175 00:12:13.400 ⇒ 00:12:21.240 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, next, somebody on the team knows a bit of Mandarin because they attended a trilingual school as a kid.
176 00:12:27.100 ⇒ 00:12:29.170 Kaela Gallagher: Rico? Okay.
177 00:12:31.390 ⇒ 00:12:36.210 Greg Stoutenburg: I’m going to guess… Oh, no.
178 00:12:36.390 ⇒ 00:12:37.529 Greg Stoutenburg: No, I don’t know.
179 00:12:37.890 ⇒ 00:12:42.299 Demilade Agboola: I don’t know, it seems like it’s meant to be quite a surprise, so I don’t know…
180 00:12:42.300 ⇒ 00:12:43.060 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
181 00:12:43.060 ⇒ 00:12:45.280 Demilade Agboola: That’s tough. Yeah.
182 00:12:45.490 ⇒ 00:12:46.470 Kaela Gallagher: We have a guest.
183 00:12:46.470 ⇒ 00:12:48.980 Robert Tseng: Yeah, Rico or B, Rico or B, yeah.
184 00:12:48.980 ⇒ 00:12:50.000 B: I quit.
185 00:12:51.870 ⇒ 00:12:52.940 Demilade Agboola: Maybe Advait?
186 00:12:54.850 ⇒ 00:12:56.480 Kaela Gallagher: Maybe it’d be, okay.
187 00:12:56.480 ⇒ 00:12:57.090 Robert Tseng: Ugh.
188 00:12:57.090 ⇒ 00:12:58.290 Kaela Gallagher: Casey.
189 00:12:58.940 ⇒ 00:12:59.680 Robert Tseng: Whoa.
190 00:12:59.800 ⇒ 00:13:01.840 B: No, I think this is Rico, yeah.
191 00:13:05.100 ⇒ 00:13:06.150 Kaela Gallagher: Alright.
192 00:13:06.280 ⇒ 00:13:10.450 Kaela Gallagher: Next up, somebody on the team can ride a unicycle.
193 00:13:17.950 ⇒ 00:13:18.780 Amber Lin: Very cool.
194 00:13:21.010 ⇒ 00:13:24.309 Robert Tseng: I feel like Amber’s tried everything, so it must be Amber, that’s my guess.
195 00:13:24.310 ⇒ 00:13:28.360 Amber Lin: I feel like this is, like, Greg’s style.
196 00:13:29.910 ⇒ 00:13:32.020 Greg Stoutenburg: Why would that be my style?
197 00:13:32.340 ⇒ 00:13:33.569 Amber Lin: I don’t know.
198 00:13:33.730 ⇒ 00:13:34.960 Demilade Agboola: I think I’m right.
199 00:13:34.960 ⇒ 00:13:37.489 Amber Lin: You did philosophy, maybe that’s a cool…
200 00:13:37.490 ⇒ 00:13:41.969 Greg Stoutenburg: So clearly, you also are the unicycle person.
201 00:13:43.430 ⇒ 00:13:46.439 Kaela Gallagher: Philosophers ride unicycles.
202 00:13:46.670 ⇒ 00:13:48.900 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, yep, this one is.
203 00:13:48.900 ⇒ 00:13:52.319 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, you’re right.
204 00:13:52.360 ⇒ 00:13:58.530 Kaela Gallagher: Greg, I need some context here. How did you learn how to ride a unicycle?
205 00:13:59.000 ⇒ 00:14:06.199 Greg Stoutenburg: On my 17th birthday, I opened a box for my dad, and it was a unicycle.
206 00:14:06.500 ⇒ 00:14:18.299 Greg Stoutenburg: So, my dad knows how to ride one. My… many of my uncles know how to ride one. My dad used to, when he was a teenager, he would ride around on the unicycle with his brother on his shoulders.
207 00:14:18.520 ⇒ 00:14:26.929 Greg Stoutenburg: I don’t know why. So somehow, the men in my family, which are mostly, like, a lot of… yep, that’s us, right there.
208 00:14:26.930 ⇒ 00:14:28.919 Robert Tseng: I’m your dad!
209 00:14:28.920 ⇒ 00:14:39.199 Greg Stoutenburg: That’s Dad! Hey, Dad! Who are mostly, like, kinda rough, blue-collar guys, for whatever reason, all know how to water ski really well, and all know how to ride a unicycle.
210 00:14:40.130 ⇒ 00:14:41.260 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay. I don’t know.
211 00:14:41.490 ⇒ 00:14:46.159 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, is… are you gonna pass this on to your kids? Is this going to be their.
212 00:14:46.160 ⇒ 00:14:46.880 Greg Stoutenburg: No, obviously.
213 00:14:46.880 ⇒ 00:14:48.309 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, they’ve tried it.
214 00:14:48.310 ⇒ 00:14:48.730 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
215 00:14:48.730 ⇒ 00:14:49.200 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
216 00:14:49.200 ⇒ 00:14:52.760 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, it’s pretty hard to start. The hardest part is just getting on it.
217 00:14:52.930 ⇒ 00:14:55.870 Greg Stoutenburg: Once you get that done, Well, it’s still hard.
218 00:14:56.440 ⇒ 00:14:57.530 Greg Stoutenburg: But not as hard.
219 00:14:59.510 ⇒ 00:15:01.010 Kaela Gallagher: Alright, cool.
220 00:15:01.010 ⇒ 00:15:03.080 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, no kidding, Jasmine. Good point.
221 00:15:04.520 ⇒ 00:15:09.730 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, somebody on the team almost shares a birthday with Drake.
222 00:15:12.270 ⇒ 00:15:13.040 Demilade Agboola: Oh, that’s true.
223 00:15:13.040 ⇒ 00:15:13.970 Kaela Gallagher: So who…
224 00:15:13.970 ⇒ 00:15:16.259 Demilade Agboola: Who is born in October? That’s the…
225 00:15:17.240 ⇒ 00:15:19.400 Kaela Gallagher: Oh, you know his birthday! Okay!
226 00:15:19.400 ⇒ 00:15:27.070 Demilade Agboola: Oh, no, no, I mean, Drake’s record label is OVO, October’s Very Own, so he’s an Octop… like, he makes it very clear that he’s born in October, so…
227 00:15:27.620 ⇒ 00:15:28.830 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay.
228 00:15:28.830 ⇒ 00:15:30.060 B: Is this you, Demi?
229 00:15:30.800 ⇒ 00:15:31.580 Demilade Agboola: Oh, no, no, no, no.
230 00:15:32.410 ⇒ 00:15:33.010 Demilade Agboola: None.
231 00:15:36.290 ⇒ 00:15:38.799 Kaela Gallagher: Utam? We have a guest for Utam.
232 00:15:39.900 ⇒ 00:15:43.179 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, October, we’re narrowing it down.
233 00:15:43.180 ⇒ 00:15:43.920 Greg Stoutenburg: I don’t know.
234 00:15:43.920 ⇒ 00:15:44.539 Demilade Agboola: That’s a good time.
235 00:15:44.540 ⇒ 00:15:45.010 Kaela Gallagher: Youth?
236 00:15:45.220 ⇒ 00:15:47.370 Greg Stoutenburg: I could guess that.
237 00:15:47.980 ⇒ 00:15:49.060 Kaela Gallagher: Pranav.
238 00:15:50.150 ⇒ 00:15:52.679 Kaela Gallagher: That’s pretty nice. Are you a Drake fan?
239 00:15:53.190 ⇒ 00:15:58.669 Pranav Narahari: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was listening to a Drake song this morning, that’s why I sent it to you, Kayla. I was like, oh, shoot.
240 00:15:58.670 ⇒ 00:15:59.090 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
241 00:15:59.090 ⇒ 00:16:00.310 Pranav Narahari: Perfect. Yeah.
242 00:16:00.630 ⇒ 00:16:01.130 Demilade Agboola: Okay.
243 00:16:01.130 ⇒ 00:16:02.590 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay.
244 00:16:02.810 ⇒ 00:16:04.139 Kaela Gallagher: Love this.
245 00:16:05.880 ⇒ 00:16:07.020 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
246 00:16:07.370 ⇒ 00:16:10.799 Kaela Gallagher: Somebody on the team can roll their eyes into their head.
247 00:16:10.800 ⇒ 00:16:11.339 Robert Tseng: Boutique.
248 00:16:11.470 ⇒ 00:16:12.429 Kaela Gallagher: I don’t know.
249 00:16:13.630 ⇒ 00:16:15.539 Kaela Gallagher: Who do you guys think this is?
250 00:16:17.630 ⇒ 00:16:20.310 B: I mean, we would love a presentation for this.
251 00:16:21.840 ⇒ 00:16:25.009 Kaela Gallagher: Somebody has to do a demonstration.
252 00:16:25.430 ⇒ 00:16:28.079 Greg Stoutenburg: I think the way to think about this is,
253 00:16:28.240 ⇒ 00:16:30.540 Greg Stoutenburg: Who would know that they can do this?
254 00:16:32.240 ⇒ 00:16:36.250 Greg Stoutenburg: Who do we think might have been sitting around, like, I’m gonna give this a go?
255 00:16:36.940 ⇒ 00:16:37.510 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah.
256 00:16:37.510 ⇒ 00:16:48.610 Robert Tseng: I figured it had to be one of our non-Gen Z folks, and I thought it’d be kind of left out. Maybe, like, Awash is, like, a secret WWE fan, and I don’t know, I guess… that’s why I guessed.
257 00:16:49.040 ⇒ 00:16:52.089 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I could see Garrett pretending to be Undertaker.
258 00:16:54.020 ⇒ 00:16:54.930 Pranav Narahari: Okay.
259 00:16:56.150 ⇒ 00:16:59.229 Kaela Gallagher: Mustafa, okay. Well, this one is…
260 00:17:00.840 ⇒ 00:17:02.730 B: Okay, it’s your turn, Debbie.
261 00:17:02.940 ⇒ 00:17:03.980 Greg Stoutenburg: Let’s see it!
262 00:17:05.380 ⇒ 00:17:06.849 Demilade Agboola: Give me a second, give me a second.
263 00:17:14.460 ⇒ 00:17:15.000 Demilade Agboola: So…
264 00:17:15.890 ⇒ 00:17:31.680 Demilade Agboola: I started doing it in secondary school. It was, like, we always used to, like, watch wrestling, and it was really cool, and we used to, like, would come to school the next day and talk about it. Yeah. And one of my friends could do it, and he started trying to teach me the trick to it. It’s really not that hard. But once you learn it, you learn it.
265 00:17:32.400 ⇒ 00:17:43.109 Demilade Agboola: So, it’s basically you try to close your eyes and look up at the same time. That’s the trick. It’s kind of hard to do it and not close your eyes fully, but it’s… it’s doable if you keep practicing.
266 00:17:44.230 ⇒ 00:17:50.859 Demilade Agboola: And this was pre-iPhone, so you’re bored. You’re bored, you’re bored.
267 00:17:51.280 ⇒ 00:17:55.110 Kaela Gallagher: Jasmine has a question in the chat, does your mom know that you can do this?
268 00:17:55.740 ⇒ 00:18:11.639 Demilade Agboola: No she doesn’t. Like, this is just one of those things you kind of do. African Prince, like, my aunts, my uncle, no one really knows I can do it, because you get, you’ll get, like, prayed for. Like, they’ll take you to get, like, delivered. This is… this is voodoo. This is magic. So, you keep it to yourself.
269 00:18:12.310 ⇒ 00:18:21.679 Kaela Gallagher: Oh my gosh, okay, this is great. Okay, we have somebody on the team who used to ride horses growing up.
270 00:18:26.020 ⇒ 00:18:26.679 Kaela Gallagher: Any guesses?
271 00:18:27.600 ⇒ 00:18:28.370 Greg Stoutenburg: Hmm.
272 00:18:30.170 ⇒ 00:18:31.380 Kaela Gallagher: Oh, okay.
273 00:18:31.380 ⇒ 00:18:32.889 Greg Stoutenburg: This seems like a plausible guess.
274 00:18:32.890 ⇒ 00:18:34.020 Demilade Agboola: I think it’s Kayla.
275 00:18:34.570 ⇒ 00:18:36.690 Robert Tseng: I could see you as an equestrian, Kayla.
276 00:18:36.970 ⇒ 00:18:38.690 Robert Tseng: You have the poise.
277 00:18:38.910 ⇒ 00:18:46.320 Kaela Gallagher: Very interesting, because I have ridden a horse once in my entire life, so this is…
278 00:18:46.320 ⇒ 00:18:46.870 Greg Stoutenburg: Amazing.
279 00:18:47.030 ⇒ 00:18:49.170 Kaela Gallagher: Utam.
280 00:18:49.170 ⇒ 00:18:52.190 Robert Tseng: What? No way! That’s crazy.
281 00:18:52.190 ⇒ 00:18:53.700 Kaela Gallagher: Yes.
282 00:18:53.700 ⇒ 00:18:54.510 Robert Tseng: Oh.
283 00:18:54.990 ⇒ 00:18:55.480 Kaela Gallagher: Mmm.
284 00:18:55.480 ⇒ 00:18:56.789 Amber Lin: I need a photo.
285 00:18:56.960 ⇒ 00:18:58.670 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah. Yeah, Robert, do you care?
286 00:18:58.670 ⇒ 00:18:59.310 Amber Lin: Imagine.
287 00:18:59.310 ⇒ 00:19:00.000 Greg Stoutenburg: I’m on a horse.
288 00:19:00.000 ⇒ 00:19:02.780 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I do, actually. I think you sent one to me.
289 00:19:04.950 ⇒ 00:19:08.040 Kaela Gallagher: We need the evidence on this one.
290 00:19:08.200 ⇒ 00:19:15.770 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, we have somebody who was part of volleyball varsity in college, but never played a game.
291 00:19:16.370 ⇒ 00:19:18.240 Greg Stoutenburg: We’re sorry to hear that.
292 00:19:20.650 ⇒ 00:19:24.219 Demilade Agboola: I’m not sure this is a fun fact. I’m not…
293 00:19:24.220 ⇒ 00:19:24.550 Kaela Gallagher: Beautiful.
294 00:19:24.550 ⇒ 00:19:27.310 Demilade Agboola: It’s a fact, I’m not sure how fun it is.
295 00:19:28.990 ⇒ 00:19:33.029 Greg Stoutenburg: Is it… is it Pranav? Do we… do we get Pranav?
296 00:19:33.240 ⇒ 00:19:34.919 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, Pranav already had the fact.
297 00:19:34.920 ⇒ 00:19:36.270 Robert Tseng: Tom’s already gone, yeah.
298 00:19:36.270 ⇒ 00:19:36.850 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, yeah, yeah.
299 00:19:36.850 ⇒ 00:19:38.879 Kaela Gallagher: Rob and Drake are twins.
300 00:19:39.090 ⇒ 00:19:40.010 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, right.
301 00:19:40.010 ⇒ 00:19:40.979 Demilade Agboola: They’re almost twins.
302 00:19:40.980 ⇒ 00:19:41.500 Greg Stoutenburg: Right.
303 00:19:41.830 ⇒ 00:19:45.370 Greg Stoutenburg: I’m just… I’m trying to look at faces here to get reactions.
304 00:19:48.520 ⇒ 00:19:51.079 Demilade Agboola: Is this Amber’s fact?
305 00:19:53.540 ⇒ 00:19:55.360 Kaela Gallagher: Let’s see… I could save you enough.
306 00:19:55.360 ⇒ 00:19:55.710 Demilade Agboola: number.
307 00:19:56.960 ⇒ 00:19:57.600 Greg Stoutenburg: Rover!
308 00:19:57.600 ⇒ 00:19:58.350 Kaela Gallagher: B.
309 00:19:58.930 ⇒ 00:20:01.150 Amber Lin: I had to make it to varsity.
310 00:20:01.430 ⇒ 00:20:04.410 Greg Stoutenburg: And… Sorry, me.
311 00:20:04.410 ⇒ 00:20:09.529 B: You know, I mean, it was fun, like, I was… I was the best benchwarmer ever.
312 00:20:12.800 ⇒ 00:20:15.870 B: And I’m sorry that you got judged. I’m Brian Mustafa.
313 00:20:21.930 ⇒ 00:20:29.950 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, next one. We have somebody who has lived in 5 countries and traveled to 27.
314 00:20:31.800 ⇒ 00:20:33.689 Greg Stoutenburg: Robert’s not just on here twice, right?
315 00:20:36.310 ⇒ 00:20:38.200 Robert Tseng: No, no, I didn’t answer, too.
316 00:20:38.560 ⇒ 00:20:39.350 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
317 00:20:43.140 ⇒ 00:20:45.300 Amber Lin: Hila, did you already have a fact?
318 00:20:45.630 ⇒ 00:20:50.710 Amber Lin: Is… is… It’s either you, Miranda, or Robert.
319 00:20:51.170 ⇒ 00:20:55.410 Kaela Gallagher: Don’t be beeping.
320 00:20:55.750 ⇒ 00:20:56.829 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I think I’m gonna go with…
321 00:20:56.830 ⇒ 00:20:58.659 Demilade Agboola: So this, this is, this is Kayla.
322 00:21:01.060 ⇒ 00:21:04.920 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, you said that very confidently. You’re right.
323 00:21:04.920 ⇒ 00:21:11.809 Demilade Agboola: I remembered, I remember the conversation we had, and I was like, yeah, this is Kayla. Because you mentioned you lived in Italy when I mentioned I live in Malta.
324 00:21:12.250 ⇒ 00:21:13.240 Kaela Gallagher: Yes.
325 00:21:13.240 ⇒ 00:21:16.630 Demilade Agboola: And you mentioned a couple, like, you moved around a bit as a kid. So I was like, yeah.
326 00:21:16.630 ⇒ 00:21:17.310 Kaela Gallagher: Yep.
327 00:21:17.590 ⇒ 00:21:32.829 Kaela Gallagher: Yes, okay, so for my lab share, I’ll tell you guys a little bit more about myself and this fun fact. But yeah, I spent my entire childhood growing up, moving around, like, every two to three years, we would move.
328 00:21:32.870 ⇒ 00:21:45.220 Kaela Gallagher: And then, in college, I did the same program as Robert, Amber, and Miranda, so we went to a different country every year, for school. So, that’s how I’ve lived in,
329 00:21:45.220 ⇒ 00:21:55.400 Kaela Gallagher: LA now, Seattle, St. Louis, and then Germany, Italy, Japan, and Hong Kong. So, here’s my… personal map.
330 00:21:55.540 ⇒ 00:21:57.409 Kaela Gallagher: For my lab chair.
331 00:21:58.760 ⇒ 00:21:59.700 Kaela Gallagher: Alright.
332 00:22:01.000 ⇒ 00:22:05.350 Kaela Gallagher: Cool. We can move forward. We will circle.
333 00:22:05.350 ⇒ 00:22:06.820 Robert Tseng: Back to…
334 00:22:06.820 ⇒ 00:22:07.580 Kaela Gallagher: boothelms portion.
335 00:22:07.580 ⇒ 00:22:11.209 Robert Tseng: Sorry, I think it’s just funny that he couldn’t make it for this.
336 00:22:11.210 ⇒ 00:22:13.610 Greg Stoutenburg: I like that there’s a bullet point, and that’s it.
337 00:22:14.430 ⇒ 00:22:18.439 Greg Stoutenburg: He got far enough, he put the cursor there.
338 00:22:21.560 ⇒ 00:22:22.630 Kaela Gallagher: Alrighty!
339 00:22:22.840 ⇒ 00:22:26.920 Kaela Gallagher: Rico, if you’re on, if you want to hop in?
340 00:22:28.590 ⇒ 00:22:31.749 Rico Rejoso: Hey guys, happy Friday, and just a quick update…
341 00:22:31.880 ⇒ 00:22:34.259 Rico Rejoso: On, from the operations team.
342 00:22:34.900 ⇒ 00:22:52.239 Rico Rejoso: start off with Zoom My Notes. So, we’re moving from Granola to Zoom My Notes as the primary place for our meeting notes, and the reason is simple. We want one system that’s tied to Zoom Workplace and to avoid confusion, or where the notes are, or…
343 00:22:52.460 ⇒ 00:22:59.579 Rico Rejoso: What tools were used when it comes to taking notes for some of the meetings that most of our engineers or CSOs or delivery leads
344 00:22:59.750 ⇒ 00:23:13.479 Rico Rejoso: are using, right? And plus the fact that we can also make sure that those notes that were, placed on Zoom can also be part of the repo, or our platform repo, as well, for you to use it or pull it out on Chrysler.
345 00:23:14.260 ⇒ 00:23:25.310 Rico Rejoso: And what we need from everyone here is to make sure that you’re on Zoom Pro license, and that you’re able to access my notes on the Zoom Hub, or the desktop hub. And if you’re unsure whether you’re set up correctly.
346 00:23:25.740 ⇒ 00:23:32.550 Rico Rejoso: you can let the operations team know so we can fix your access, or help you, or help you point where it is, okay?
347 00:23:33.070 ⇒ 00:23:35.850 Rico Rejoso: Second would be the Coffee.
348 00:23:35.970 ⇒ 00:23:55.329 Rico Rejoso: So, great news, and also great improvement from everyone. On Clockify, we’re seeing about 85% of the time were recorded. I think the best that we had so far since I joined the team, because roughly around, I mean, every end of month, we usually have to bring, other team members to make sure that other Clockify are updated.
349 00:23:56.070 ⇒ 00:24:08.370 Rico Rejoso: now we’re stepping it up a bit. Let’s aim for, at least 9… or, I mean, around 90% of the team to have their hours logged on Clockify. And to do this, we’ll run a weekly check-in.
350 00:24:08.840 ⇒ 00:24:11.799 Rico Rejoso: To ensure that we keep our hours sedated.
351 00:24:12.290 ⇒ 00:24:30.300 Rico Rejoso: Remember, when hours are not logged, the downstream effect is real, and it involves client invoices, or it affects client invoices and internal payroll as well, which… wherein it gets delayed, and then we end up chasing for those hours instead of just focusing on our end-of-month tasks, or projects that we’re working. So…
352 00:24:32.170 ⇒ 00:24:46.970 Rico Rejoso: making sure that every week we have those hours updated is also less hassle for everyone, especially when it comes to end-of-month reports. So the ask here is just make sure that you log your time as you go, or at least on the same day… same day, if not.
353 00:24:47.130 ⇒ 00:24:57.190 Rico Rejoso: then every end of week, by Friday, let’s make sure we log all those hours. Now, if something’s unclear about this, or, you know, you have any questions, just let us know, and we’re happy to help.
354 00:24:58.090 ⇒ 00:25:02.050 Rico Rejoso: Lastly, the requests are linear requests.
355 00:25:02.180 ⇒ 00:25:07.270 Rico Rejoso: Requests are trending up this week. We saw around 34 requests came in so far.
356 00:25:07.590 ⇒ 00:25:14.090 Rico Rejoso: That’s actually a good sign that the team are asking instead of guessing, and it’s utilizing our tools.
357 00:25:14.400 ⇒ 00:25:31.309 Rico Rejoso: Again, for others who, who haven’t tried it yet, or have questions in mind on how to use that, or create a request, you can use the linear ask for any requests for access, expenses, general operations, and sick or out of office.
358 00:25:31.630 ⇒ 00:25:45.140 Rico Rejoso: Okay, we have a policy in place, and also have… I’ll be sending that out to our Brainforge team on a bi-weekly basis, just to make sure that everyone is aware of the requests or the tools that we have on Slack that you can utilize.
359 00:25:47.230 ⇒ 00:25:58.549 Rico Rejoso: And also, you can access this via searching for linear as in Slack, then type the command, which is slash ask, and select the option that is closest to your request.
360 00:25:59.400 ⇒ 00:26:01.170 Rico Rejoso: Any questions so far?
361 00:26:07.790 ⇒ 00:26:08.560 Rico Rejoso: Alright.
362 00:26:08.770 ⇒ 00:26:27.899 Rico Rejoso: If none, again, I’ll be posting this update as well on our Brainforge team channel, to keep you guys posted, and if you have any questions, you can either, comment on that post or send us an ops request with your question, and I’ll be, the operations are more than happy to, direct or assist you through a direct message as well.
363 00:26:28.010 ⇒ 00:26:30.100 Rico Rejoso: That’s all for the operations team.
364 00:26:33.260 ⇒ 00:26:34.950 Kaela Gallagher: Cool, thank you, Rico.
365 00:26:35.140 ⇒ 00:26:36.210 Kaela Gallagher: B?
366 00:26:36.590 ⇒ 00:26:40.139 B: Yeah, cool. I’m checking the screen share for…
367 00:26:40.690 ⇒ 00:26:55.909 B: a bit here. So, our learning hub, our LMS, internal LMS for Brainforge, is now live. You can see it here, but this is the local dev, but this will soon be in the online platform, but this LMS
368 00:26:55.990 ⇒ 00:27:07.629 B: page will contain all of our learning courses that we will deliver to our people, slowly but surely, as well as enablement guides that we’re creating, and our first enablement guide is
369 00:27:07.630 ⇒ 00:27:16.180 B: how to, like, set up your OpenCode account, which is going to be, like, our second AI tool, aside from Cursor. So everyone,
370 00:27:16.240 ⇒ 00:27:35.289 B: I will be sending a Slack message, pointing you to this guide, and making sure that, you know, we get to try this out and see how, you know, how more effective it is. We are competing with Cursora now, yes. And, this will also contain, like, the certification tracks that we will also be launching for Brainforge.
371 00:27:35.460 ⇒ 00:27:47.499 B: But yeah, so our LMS is now here. We will no longer, like, try to teach you using Slack messages, and we will be making sure that you have, like, a standard place to see if you want to learn something.
372 00:27:47.900 ⇒ 00:27:53.740 B: Yeah, this is really exciting. This should be, this should be up in the online platform today.
373 00:27:54.390 ⇒ 00:28:00.159 B: Okay, and, you know, aside from the LMS pages, we have some exciting changes here.
374 00:28:00.220 ⇒ 00:28:14.730 B: For DoorDash workflow, if you don’t know what DoorDash is, it’s just the L&D team delivering updates from the kitchen, our platform team, to you, our people, and making sure that they are digestible, and it’s not rare, but…
375 00:28:14.730 ⇒ 00:28:39.480 B: These are the two first packages that we have delivered. These are just, you know, us making sure that you understand the changes and the updates that we are creating, making sure that we give you the time to ask questions, and at the same time, giving you the opportunity to, like, meet with us if anything’s unclear. And we’re trying to make sure that everyone here in Brainforge understands our changes and gets to keep up
376 00:28:39.480 ⇒ 00:28:41.410 B: With how fast we are moving.
377 00:28:42.040 ⇒ 00:28:59.449 B: So that’s DoorDash workflow for you. And then we have the enablement guides, I just added it as a work in progress here, but it’s already live. I’ll be sending a Slack message just as a reminder, and I’m hoping that by Monday next week, everyone gets to use OpenCode as a replacement for Cursor.
378 00:28:59.450 ⇒ 00:29:18.900 B: And then lastly, for certification, so really amazing progress here by our team. So, we’re trying to be certified, for Omni, Snowflake, and then for Omni, Robert and Garrett passed the certifications with flying collars. Super amazing, let’s, you know, give them a round of applause.
379 00:29:18.900 ⇒ 00:29:24.680 B: Greg’s results are… are still… are still in the line. Have you heard back, Greg?
380 00:29:25.300 ⇒ 00:29:37.749 Greg Stoutenburg: No, I haven’t heard anything. I’m also looking for… I’m looking for, like, a cap and gown reaction to send up for our, our recent certificate recipients. No, I don’t know, I don’t know what the deal is. I turned it in earlier this week.
381 00:29:38.340 ⇒ 00:29:47.599 Greg Stoutenburg: I put all the Omni stuff in that folder in the repo. I thought that was clever. And then I just… I just kept screenshotting all the pages and giving it to Cursor and saying, tell me the answer, and it pasted it in.
382 00:29:49.420 ⇒ 00:30:03.769 B: Oh, wow. Okay. Well, we’re excited for the results, Greg. I’m pretty sure that you’re also going to pass, but yeah, amazing work by the strategy team here. We’re 3 out of 6, and I’m super confident that we will be certified by the end of the month.
383 00:30:03.770 ⇒ 00:30:12.400 B: For AI and data, we have Snowflake as the highest priority. This is ongoing. I know that some are already starting to study.
384 00:30:12.400 ⇒ 00:30:24.400 B: And then it’s just a more difficult process, since there… Snowflake has a more strict… I would say a stricter process when it comes to certification, but we’re definitely going to be certified with Snowflake, too, within this quarter.
385 00:30:24.990 ⇒ 00:30:28.790 B: And yeah, that’s it for L&D. Thank you, everyone.
386 00:30:31.170 ⇒ 00:30:55.430 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, cool. Just some quick, people updates for everybody. So, our People and Culture page within Notion is fully up to date. Thank you, everybody, for updating your work hours there. Everyone’s job description should be up to date. And then there is also an org chart as well. So, I posted, a screenshot here at the bottom of this slide. It’s a little blurry. If you go to the people and culture page.
387 00:30:55.500 ⇒ 00:30:57.080 Kaela Gallagher: It’s clear.
388 00:30:57.080 ⇒ 00:31:21.159 Kaela Gallagher: Also just wanted to give kudos to Awash, Dami, Sam, Pranav, everybody who sent over referrals, really appreciate it. It’s super helpful in our hiring process, and for keeping, just a steady pipeline of very strong candidates. So, continue sending those over. And then last thing, just an ask from you guys, if you’re part
389 00:31:21.170 ⇒ 00:31:40.399 Kaela Gallagher: of a community, a forum online, any place that you think there might be a pool of great candidates, please let me know. I would love to join. I’ve recently started joining, like, dbt Slack pages and trying to recruit from there, so, yeah, I would appreciate your guys’ help and advice with this as well.
390 00:31:42.510 ⇒ 00:31:43.360 Kaela Gallagher: Cool.
391 00:31:44.620 ⇒ 00:31:46.660 Kaela Gallagher: Moving forward. Robert?
392 00:31:48.610 ⇒ 00:32:00.229 Robert Tseng: Cool. Yeah, so a few updates from my side. I think, yeah, Q2’s off to a strong start. We have been really busy trying to get some deals over the line.
393 00:32:00.550 ⇒ 00:32:10.029 Robert Tseng: Element finally signed their… signed the deal, so we have, I mean, that was a… that was a big win for everyone involved. It’s been waiting on this for a couple months.
394 00:32:10.240 ⇒ 00:32:25.789 Robert Tseng: Yeah, we have a couple other, like, verbal kind of commitments at this point. So I think Sunstone Therapies is a big one. We’re starting it off similarly to how we did with Element, so it’ll start off with a 4-6 week discovery, so kind of…
395 00:32:26.490 ⇒ 00:32:30.049 Robert Tseng: kind of ironing that out, I’ll be jumping on a call with them after this.
396 00:32:30.320 ⇒ 00:32:45.529 Robert Tseng: And then, as far as, like, their budget, I mean, I think their budget is roughly around what Element is willing to pay as well, so I think, it should be a great, I think we’ll… we’ll learn… we will have learnings from the last deal. This one will go smoother, hopefully.
397 00:32:45.740 ⇒ 00:32:57.049 Robert Tseng: And then LE Mental Health has… is coming back around. We’re just kind of ironing out the details of start date and kind of scope, because things have changed. This got delayed by… by a couple months as well.
398 00:32:57.490 ⇒ 00:33:07.479 Robert Tseng: And then just, like, some learnings around, like, what’s making deals stall. Yeah, I think, like, slow turnaround on demo materials, we’ve definitely been working on this. I think.
399 00:33:07.730 ⇒ 00:33:21.979 Robert Tseng: Raidforge work platform is getting better, but there are a couple leads that I haven’t been able to get back to yet, because I wasn’t able to turn around a demo there. And even… even today, it was not really working for me, so I couldn’t really send it.
400 00:33:22.530 ⇒ 00:33:41.919 Robert Tseng: And then I think sometimes, like, comms just rag out, and so just getting to better… I mean, right now, I’m manually nudging leads, which was kind of funny, because I had a lead, come back to me yesterday and was like, please take me off your mailing list, and I was, like, chuckling to myself, because I am the mailing list. We don’t have any automations set up here.
401 00:33:41.920 ⇒ 00:33:48.440 Robert Tseng: So, but I am persistent, so I will keep nudging people until they… until they do not respond, or, like, until they tell me to stop.
402 00:33:48.470 ⇒ 00:33:52.240 Robert Tseng: So, just gotta figure out how to do that in a more systematic way.
403 00:33:53.000 ⇒ 00:34:03.159 Robert Tseng: And then, yeah, we’re spending a lot more time negotiating, like, kind of terms and the scope of work, which is kind of funny, because, like, I don’t know.
404 00:34:03.210 ⇒ 00:34:11.799 Robert Tseng: Random tangent, some of you know that I do law school in the evenings. I pretty much just sit in class in the evenings, and I’m doing my own legal work now, and I’m like.
405 00:34:11.800 ⇒ 00:34:26.820 Robert Tseng: kind of, like, taking whatever Rico sends me, and I’m not even paying attention to class anymore, and it’s kind of a bit disorienting. But we need to figure out a way to basically get through these standard terms a lot faster, so I’m not having to do legal reviews.
406 00:34:26.920 ⇒ 00:34:32.959 Robert Tseng: For, like, an hour… an hour or two hours every day, during the middle of the week.
407 00:34:34.580 ⇒ 00:34:40.149 Robert Tseng: That’s a good one, I’ll click on it later. And then as far as, like, learnings, I think…
408 00:34:40.150 ⇒ 00:34:56.150 Robert Tseng: We just… we just extended an offer to Lisa, who’s a partnerships manager, coming in, super seasoned, we’re super excited for her, so she’s gonna… her big bet is getting us into Snowflake, and she’s gonna be going to conferences and kind of repping Brainforge externally as well.
409 00:34:56.520 ⇒ 00:35:00.329 Robert Tseng: So, super excited that… for… for her coming on board.
410 00:35:00.360 ⇒ 00:35:05.870 Robert Tseng: And then, I guess this is a little bit worded weirdly, but the idea is…
411 00:35:05.870 ⇒ 00:35:20.459 Robert Tseng: we’re trying to build out our go-to-market engineering capabilities to the point that anybody can actually start building lists and enriching data. So, I’ll use one example. There’s an RFP from, like, a
412 00:35:20.820 ⇒ 00:35:30.309 Robert Tseng: big local food bank that was, like, kind of in my hometown. I grew up volunteering there, it’s called Second Harvest. They’re nationwide, have, like, a $100 million a year budget.
413 00:35:30.310 ⇒ 00:35:45.279 Robert Tseng: But they were a bit… they… they put out an RFP. I immediately used Cursor to go and find the… the phone numbers and the emails of the people… of the… of the COOs. They’re two possible people. I called both of them, one of them called… one of them responded.
414 00:35:45.310 ⇒ 00:36:02.830 Robert Tseng: And, I’m getting on a call with them a week from now. So, I think I just want that to be, like, possible for anybody that, as you come across any person, any lead that comes to mind, you want to take it on yourself to just go and message them, call them, try cold calling them.
415 00:36:02.830 ⇒ 00:36:09.260 Robert Tseng: just, just, like, just, just do it, you know? And, like, I mean, we’ll see what this deal comes out to be, but the budget’s pretty big.
416 00:36:09.260 ⇒ 00:36:14.460 Robert Tseng: So I’m… I’m excited, and it would be cool to work with an org that I’m very familiar with.
417 00:36:14.960 ⇒ 00:36:34.770 Robert Tseng: Yeah, and then the last piece I’ll say is, you know, we’re really, pushing some of our deals to move from our old way of billing, which is really just hourly pricing, to outcome-based pricing, and I know some of you feel the tension on existing clients, specifically, like, Eden is, like, is one that I’m really trying to push.
418 00:36:34.770 ⇒ 00:36:54.319 Robert Tseng: out of the way that we’ve been working with them up to this point. So, yeah, we’re really trying to call our shot on, you know, what type of impact we’re going to drive, really getting into the detail of what specific metrics we’re going to be able to move, and then designing, like, a more,
419 00:36:54.490 ⇒ 00:37:11.719 Robert Tseng: yeah, just, like, a different contract off of that. So, I’m fairly confident that on Eden, we’re at a place now where we can do that, and I really want to push that over the line, and yeah, hopefully we’ll use that as an example for other clients as well.
420 00:37:12.170 ⇒ 00:37:23.360 Robert Tseng: Yeah, as always, if you have any questions about… about deals, I guess, like, I also didn’t put here, but we just… we just brought in a sales coach who’s basically a fractional, fractional
421 00:37:23.460 ⇒ 00:37:41.249 Robert Tseng: fractional head of sales, who’ll be starting next week. He’s gonna really much be working with me and helping us get ready to bring in our first, like, account executive, a full-time seller, which maybe will happen, like, 2 or 3 months down the line, but really kind of doubling down on, we know that this is a really important.
422 00:37:41.280 ⇒ 00:37:53.000 Robert Tseng: kind of, like, momentum that we’re building here, and we think that there’s so much demand right now that we should keep trying to fish for more. So anyway, that’s a lot… that’s what I got for the update today.
423 00:37:55.680 ⇒ 00:37:58.700 Kaela Gallagher: Cool, thank you. Anyone have any questions?
424 00:38:02.240 ⇒ 00:38:03.130 Kaela Gallagher: Alright.
425 00:38:03.300 ⇒ 00:38:09.049 Kaela Gallagher: Let’s move into some shoutouts. Does anybody have any shoutouts or kudos to give?
426 00:38:15.320 ⇒ 00:38:19.609 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, I… I want to shout out Grill.
427 00:38:21.100 ⇒ 00:38:29.279 Awaish Kumar: since he’s here, like, we have been really adopting AI and, different tools, building skills and things like that, so…
428 00:38:29.460 ⇒ 00:38:35.750 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, I’m, like… He has been helping a lot on… Figuring out where things are.
429 00:38:36.040 ⇒ 00:38:38.540 Awaish Kumar: And, keep up the…
430 00:38:39.360 ⇒ 00:38:49.569 Awaish Kumar: tabs on us, like, to learn more. So, yeah, that’s great. And then, also, I want to shout out the… Amber. She has been…
431 00:38:50.090 ⇒ 00:38:54.050 Awaish Kumar: nailing the strategy side, at least for the clients where I
432 00:38:54.160 ⇒ 00:38:57.549 Awaish Kumar: I’m involved, like, helping… like, we have been…
433 00:38:57.790 ⇒ 00:39:03.029 Awaish Kumar: collaborating a lot on Element and Eden, and I think she has been doing great work.
434 00:39:06.170 ⇒ 00:39:07.740 Kaela Gallagher: Awesome! Kudos, you guys!
435 00:39:11.670 ⇒ 00:39:12.440 Kaela Gallagher: Does anyone else?
436 00:39:12.440 ⇒ 00:39:23.900 Greg Stoutenburg: I’ll give a… yeah, shout out, both to Garrett and to Jasmine for just picking up so much work so quickly. You know, as you’ve ramped up, it’s been nice just in this week to be able to lean on you both.
437 00:39:23.910 ⇒ 00:39:40.260 Greg Stoutenburg: For things that are, you know, there’s a lot of pieces in delivery for some of these clients, and so to be able to lean on others for some, you know, quality review and leveling up of the deliverables that we’re putting out, as well as just sort of, like, general organization and things like that, has been really helpful.
438 00:39:45.660 ⇒ 00:39:57.580 Robert Tseng: I want to shout out Kayla for going above and beyond this week, doing a couple… I can’t disclose the things that you do, but kind of beyond the traditional…
439 00:39:57.740 ⇒ 00:40:09.270 Robert Tseng: kind of, yeah, just, you know, being willing to just step up and go in and do things outside of your role, and trying to be helpful wherever you can. You’re… I mean, you’re, you’re,
440 00:40:09.380 ⇒ 00:40:22.810 Robert Tseng: You’ve always been… you’re a really good thought partner for me and Utam, and, you know, I really, really trust your judgment. So, I’m just really excited and thankful that you went out of your way to do more than you needed to this week.
441 00:40:23.830 ⇒ 00:40:24.700 Kaela Gallagher: Thank you.
442 00:40:26.480 ⇒ 00:40:36.540 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, I’d like to shout out Kayla as well for backing me up in the operations. I was out last Friday, and she was, she made herself available to, for the operations side, and B.
443 00:40:36.720 ⇒ 00:40:39.100 Rico Rejoso: Shout out to me as well.
444 00:40:39.770 ⇒ 00:40:42.369 Rico Rejoso: For answering any questions when it comes to…
445 00:40:42.480 ⇒ 00:40:45.550 Rico Rejoso: tools and stuff that I’m not yet familiar with.
446 00:40:45.760 ⇒ 00:40:48.399 Rico Rejoso: So… Shoutout to both of you guys.
447 00:40:58.110 ⇒ 00:41:01.980 Greg Stoutenburg: Try not to Robert for this picture of Utam on a horse.
448 00:41:04.270 ⇒ 00:41:06.740 Kaela Gallagher: It’s already been sent to Utsam.
449 00:41:06.740 ⇒ 00:41:07.710 Greg Stoutenburg: That’s amazing.
450 00:41:07.870 ⇒ 00:41:08.580 Greg Stoutenburg: Hilarious.
451 00:41:12.010 ⇒ 00:41:13.000 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
452 00:41:13.140 ⇒ 00:41:15.689 Kaela Gallagher: Awkward silence? Anyone else want to hop in?
453 00:41:18.770 ⇒ 00:41:19.750 Kaela Gallagher: Alright.
454 00:41:19.970 ⇒ 00:41:25.200 Kaela Gallagher: Cool. Well, Robert, do you have any closing words?
455 00:41:26.690 ⇒ 00:41:44.970 Robert Tseng: No, I think, good work, everyone. I know it’s, things are… things are fast, fast-paced here, especially those of you that are new. I don’t even realize that, like, you know, Garrett and Miranda have only been here for, like, 2 or 3 weeks. It feels like I’ve been here for much longer. So, yeah, I think,
456 00:41:45.410 ⇒ 00:41:50.590 Robert Tseng: I think we’re getting… we’re getting more cohesive as a team, starting to be able to
457 00:41:51.020 ⇒ 00:42:08.149 Robert Tseng: kind of just pick up on each other’s, like, thoughts, and I mean, I’m loving what I’m seeing, especially on Slack, and also in the meetings that we’re running are more… are more crisp. So, yeah, I think everything is kind of trending in the right direction. We have a lot that’s coming. Hopefully, we’re kind of…
458 00:42:08.210 ⇒ 00:42:15.300 Robert Tseng: Yeah, we’re just, like, holding it at bay, kind of, with new people coming in, and also new clients. I’m basically telling them to, like.
459 00:42:15.310 ⇒ 00:42:32.600 Robert Tseng: hold off until May, so hopefully everyone can take a breath, just try to keep at it with what you have this month. Things will probably kind of hit another level next month, because we’re going to be juggling, like, another 2 or 3 more clients. So, yeah, I think between that and, you know, we’re going on
460 00:42:32.600 ⇒ 00:42:43.520 Robert Tseng: a couple conferences over the next week. Yeah, I think, like, this… this, this, this quarter is… is looking… looking pretty exciting. And we’re trying to…
461 00:42:43.610 ⇒ 00:43:00.529 Robert Tseng: just involve people wherever they want to. So, if there’s anything that you’re interested in that we’re doing that you feel like you haven’t been able to be a part of yet, you know, let me know. This is definitely the time as things are kind of, like, up in the air where we could try to plug you into new things.
462 00:43:03.410 ⇒ 00:43:13.400 Kaela Gallagher: Lots of exciting things coming up. Yeah, just on that vein, Robert Utsam Pranav and I will be at, VixelCon on Monday, so we might be slower to respond to messages.
463 00:43:14.280 ⇒ 00:43:21.329 Kaela Gallagher: Cool. Alright guys, happy weekend, happy Friday. Thanks for participating in the icebreaker today.
464 00:43:24.250 ⇒ 00:43:24.950 Kaela Gallagher: Alright.
465 00:43:24.950 ⇒ 00:43:25.650 B: What?
466 00:43:26.420 ⇒ 00:43:27.250 Kaela Gallagher: Bye!
467 00:43:27.560 ⇒ 00:43:28.640 Robert Tseng: Thanks, everyone!
468 00:43:28.990 ⇒ 00:43:29.810 Garrett Gibson: Bye.
469 00:43:31.280 ⇒ 00:43:32.689 Awaish Kumar: Thank you, bye.