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00:00:01 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Busy week, but starting to wind down a little bit. It was one of my 00:00:05 - [SCOTT_WARNER] more interesting weeks between SAP crashing and just 900 Adaptec meetings and Damn. It's just been insane. So 00:00:14 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. That part's really ramping up. It's it's so many meetings. We gotta figure out a way to, like, streamline it. I don't know. 00:00:23 - [SCOTT_WARNER] It's so many meetings, and and with the required sorry. I'm moving real quick. With the required separation between teams and everything, it's just I don't know. It's real hard to kinda keep everything on the same page, and I'm getting that's probably my biggest frustration point right now is I feel like I spend ten ten times aligning on the same topics with different crews. And then if anything changes, then you have to realign with everybody, and it's just kind of annoying. So 00:00:47 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. I feel like we're I mean, we're on the same page when we get to Matt. Like, when we have those meetings with Matt, we know what we have to do. But then we meet again, and it's the same fucking things. 00:01:02 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Change. Yeah. 00:01:02 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] I mean Yeah. Like, there's never 00:01:05 - [SCOTT_WARNER] a final. Right? It's, kinda come on. 00:01:07 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. Yeah. It's like, come on. Well, we can't just, like, scratch at the same things over and over. And that's why I I would want like, if we're gonna keep Michael, then I really think he's gotta be the guy that can drive the influence and against the key decisions. Yeah. And right now, I just don't think he has that influence if he's talking about meeting with Christian. I just that isn't gonna do shit for us. Mmmm. Because then Christian's gonna go get shut down by the Sasha on the go to market issue or tech on the go to market issue and or Patrick on the legal issue, and it's like, okay. How do we I don't I don't have a solution Yeah. But I'm just I'm venting right now, really. 00:02:01 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Like, I kinda vented to Amity on the same thing just because I was like, you know, she has I don't know if you're on it too, but there's that steering committee, but I don't know what their function is doing because it doesn't seem to be moving the needle at all. And then it's like we have yeah. Like you said, there's nine different work streams. Each one of them is somewhat tied together but overwrites the other. I don't know. It's just it's pretty frustrating. And I agree. Like, I kinda talked to Amity about the Michael thing, and she loves him or that's not accurate. She likes him enough that, you know, she wants to keep him. And that's fine, but I'm kinda with you. It's like, for what we're paying, you know, why is he not providing this resource of, you know, keeping us aligned and on you know, where's the issue tracker, and and what's the next step, and all those things. Right? 00:02:46 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] 100. And it's like yeah. It was eye opening to me in the meeting when you brought up the issue tracker, and he's done he's not even aware of it. It's like, dude. Like, a, if that thing is out there and you're not aware of it, we're not using it. That's a problem because, really, that's your job to coordinate us. 00:03:07 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Right. 00:03:08 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] And he's not asking good questions. And now I just feel like he's trying to insert himself in more meetings and adding no value. 00:03:15 - [SCOTT_WARNER] No. He's yeah. And he's I I don't know if you caught on or not. Shawn can't stand him. And it's frustrating because Shawn basically has kicked him out of every meeting we're in, which is fine. But because Shawn says he's he adds layers that we don't need. He's like, we're trying to get shit done, not sit and talk about it. So 00:03:33 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. And and I think that's that's my sentiment too that he is just adding extra layers and even, like, some stupid questions. 00:03:44 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Mhmm. 00:03:45 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] It's like you're taking away time to just to have a voice in a meeting that doesn't matter. And then so I don't know. I need to talk to Amity again. Her main concern is around the not having a project manager 00:03:59 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Mhmm. 00:04:00 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] And someone to coordinate. And I agree with that. I don't wanna do that admin work. You don't want to. But then, also, I don't know that it's even getting done right now. Right. You know what I mean? It doesn't yeah. 00:04:17 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Yeah. I sent a, document over to Sean a little bit ago of all the collected issues that I got just from this week's meetings and then where I think they are. And I got to thinking, I'm like, what? Why am I having to do this? Like, isn't that literally what we're paying him for? Yeah. But but we have, like, nine issues that are in the red, and I feel like nobody's really I mean, we all said their issues, but we're not making any progress at them. So 00:04:43 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. We're we're not getting clarity. We're just adding more issues to the log. 00:04:49 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Who owns these issues? Who's fixing them? Who's pushing Yeah. You know? And I'm with you. Christian Christian isn't gonna do it. So 00:04:57 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Christian's not gonna do it. And I think that I don't do you know when the next June committee meeting is? 00:05:06 - [SCOTT_WARNER] I don't. I I thought they were on Mondays, but Amity hasn't had one in a while. I'm picking at her calendar real quick. One second. So you're not on those either? 00:05:17 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Well, I got some meeting added to my calendar. That's the Adapt x from Christian Bader. 00:05:25 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Maybe that's it. 00:05:28 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Let's see who's in this meeting. Monday morning. Christian, Karen, Matt, Amity, Oliver, Mark, Sasha, Marcus. 00:05:47 - [SCOTT_WARNER] That sounds like the steering committee. 00:05:49 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Stefan, Pascal. 00:05:52 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Oh, Pascal's on that? Yeah. 00:05:55 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Internal Festool meeting to synchronize all work streams. Goal. Everyone knows where we stand, what the priorities are, and what the next steps are. Oh, this is this is 00:06:05 - [SCOTT_WARNER] the one that Michael, I think, said he was gonna forward me because he saw I wasn't on it, and he's like, you're gonna have to be there. 00:06:11 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. We think that both of us would need to be there. And I want to figure out with you and I and Amity how we because the level of influencing that we need doesn't seem to be happening. Matt tried when he was there, and I think that we really just have to to push on what we need. And the legal entity is one from a finance standpoint that we gotta have clarity on. And then this, like, forward selling solution by channel, the go to market, those are the two things. And then the little make sure we're not like, the nine things that you that we called out this week, probably don't all fit into those two issues. But, like, we can probably manage a little bit more of the other stuff once like, what is really big that we have to know now and we need a plan against and who is accountable? 00:07:03 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Yeah. That's how I look at it because it's to me, there's some things. Let me share what kinda what I wrote for just this is just like a quick, hold on. Yeah. Find my share window. Share. 00:07:17 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] You're in the hospital right now. How's your daughter doing? 00:07:20 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Yeah. She's doing okay. So she's got out of ICU last night, so that's good news. So 00:07:25 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Oh, good. 00:07:27 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Alright. So this is a little so I put topic, what area it is, where we're at, if there was a resolution. I mean, look at all the things I have in yellow, let alone red. 00:07:42 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. 00:07:43 - [SCOTT_WARNER] So, yeah, so legal entities in here. You know? So I have it on yellow. So we know kinda what we want, but we don't know if we can. And then, yeah, we have all these customer data issues that we wanna talk about. Where's the 00:07:57 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Well, this is good list. 00:07:59 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Somewhere I had 00:08:01 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. Ecommerce continuity. 00:08:02 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Yeah. Well, except for I thought I had one of them in red because 00:08:08 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Oh, the the 00:08:09 - [SCOTT_WARNER] fixed sort by this real quick. So what are my reds? So the lab equipment, master asset list, we need well, I feel like you kinda have that under now. We're just trying to match it to, you know, the list. 00:08:22 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Well, Shawn got back to me, and he doesn't have a list. He just has that tour deck with pictures. 00:08:29 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Okay. 00:08:30 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] So now we gotta try to figure out, like, asset codes or names that tie back to those to know what we're moving. And the location is in the list, and so I don't know. We're gonna meet with Greg again next week to try to start on that. 00:08:47 - [SCOTT_WARNER] I'm changing this one to red because I I think it's red. 00:08:50 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] I absolutely change that to red. 00:08:53 - [SCOTT_WARNER] And then the rest of this is fine. But, anyway, I was I have I'm having Shawn. And if he doesn't change a bunch, I'm gonna send it to the the admin team, the ELT group that the Matt, you, me, Amity group and just say here's kinda what I've captured as issues right now. So 00:09:10 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] This is great. This is real this is perfect. 00:09:15 - [SCOTT_WARNER] But it's it's what I think Michael should be doing. 00:09:18 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] 100. 00:09:19 - [SCOTT_WARNER] So anyway. 00:09:20 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] 100. Alright. Well, thanks for doing that. Let's talk more. Yeah. Be sure to include Matt on that. Yeah. And that other deck you that if you or Shawn put together too, that was our that was amazing too. 00:09:32 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Yeah. That was the starting point for this list, but I felt like it had grown. Like, the need to knows are growing, not getting slower. And so 00:09:40 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Is the is the access is the Oracle's 00:09:49 - [SCOTT_WARNER] I think I lost you. You still there? 00:10:11 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] I the Internet just crashed here. So now I'm on my hotspot. I think they're still working on the power line. I think all set what happened. 00:10:20 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Yeah. The last thing I heard is, Oracle. You had said Oracle, and then you dropped. 00:10:24 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Oh, yeah. Is that one on your issue tracker? Let's see. 00:10:29 - [SCOTT_WARNER] It's a good question. Close it because I thought my computer was crashing. In the afternoons, this place starts getting busy and the Internet gets pretty rough. 00:10:43 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Oh, yeah. 00:10:45 - [SCOTT_WARNER] I just called it infrastructure and cloud, So but I didn't call that out, but I I'm gonna add it as a specific. So 00:10:53 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. Yeah. Put put something about the Oracle license in there because that is a direct hit to the business case. And right now, we're gonna be paying probably I bet you we got a plan for 20 a month for at least twelve more months that weren't in that plan. Is 00:11:15 - [SCOTT_WARNER] that how expensive it is supposed to be? It seems that just sounds high. I mean, we pay a lot for SAP. I just is that roughly what SawStop? Like, is that a reasonable cost? 00:11:25 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] We're at about, 17 k a month. And I bet you it could well, they're right now at about 16 or 15. I'm just thinking that we're gonna get raked over the coals when we do a short term agreement because the they're not doing anything right now less than 3. Gotcha. And so we're just gonna get crushed if we're if we're doing a one. 00:11:52 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Yeah. And they're not gonna care that we're if we say, you know, hey. But we're closing. They're gonna say, yeah. No problem. 00:11:56 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's it. Woah. Then it's 25. 00:11:59 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Yeah. Did we say 20? We meant 25. That's alright. You know? 00:12:02 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. So I think this will be real helpful. Okay. Thanks for pushing that forward. Michael asked to get time with me this afternoon. I'll see if he does wanna meet, and I I'm just gonna dig into a little bit more of, like, what he's doing and how he's doing to have that conversation with Amity again because I think we either need to manage him better and set more clear expectations on what we need with, like, this kinda tracking and followup and influencing, or we try to do without them, or we get someone that can do it the way we want? 00:12:40 - [SCOTT_WARNER] I think that's the right question. So I'm going to send you a link to that file just so you have it if you wanna reference it with him. So 00:12:48 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. And I'll double check through my notes and see if there's anything that I would add as well or if I have any additional context on any of the items that you already have. 00:13:01 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Perfect. That that helps. Alright. Like I said, my goal is to circulate this down the road. I just wanted to fact or sanity check it before I did. 00:13:08 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. The only little one I could do, we gotta run five minutes early. I'm gonna meet someone for lunch. Okay. The where are we in the legal entity work for The US side? 00:13:23 - [SCOTT_WARNER] So we are doing a high level FERPA analysis. So we we got the FERPA stuff back from, CLA. So that stuff was all forwarded to Olga at AFS. Dave and I met earlier this week, and they're supposed to be doing Amity. I call it back of the napkin math. But, you know, just high level, reasonable observations. Are these entities or not? You know, like Shapr, for example. We know it's not. Right? You can look at it. You can say they don't own up real estate. So my is gonna be a real estate entity. TTS RELP is gonna be an entity. As we combine things, where do they become you know, whether we need a FERPA exemption or I can't think of the other words they use. Anyway, there's ways to use your inventory to offset the real estate values and stuff like that. So Yeah. And then did I I think I sent you a list of stuff that Olga was gonna want, and then I said, hold on that. Did 00:14:17 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] I Yeah. Sorry. That's why I'm asking. 00:14:19 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Yeah. So that would be the next step is is for those entities that she says she'll need that, that will be your next step is to gather that for those entities. But what Amity and I wanted to stop was don't go get it for all entities because you might be doing a lot of work that doesn't need done. So 00:14:35 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Yeah. Okay. 00:14:36 - [SCOTT_WARNER] So, hopefully Cool. Honestly, this week, I I made no progress on that because Adapt actually Yeah. SAP took over, and then Adapt actually took over. So Yeah. But next week, I hope to maybe really move that along and figure out from Dave's team what they're gonna need from us. So 00:14:51 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Okay. Okay. Cool. That sounds good. Cool. Is there any considerations with that that are contingent on the AdaptDx ideas for Shapr? 00:15:00 - [SCOTT_WARNER] No. Not really because Okay. I don't think there's a method. We were kinda thinking down the road to get everybody under, like, the holdings entity, but that won't be the direction we go because of the profit idea, the sharing, and piece like that. No matter what, I think we would go with one of the alternate structures we have. So 00:15:20 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Okay. Okay. 00:15:22 - [SCOTT_WARNER] But Alright. What that's one of the other things is we're doing. Once we get the answer from the high level FERPA, we're gonna put together, like, the two most viable alternatives and send them out so that we can kind of all nod our heads and say that's what we agree we wanna do. So okay. 00:15:35 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Awesome. Okay. Cool. Cool. That sounds great. Well, what do you got going on this weekend? 00:15:40 - [SCOTT_WARNER] Just hoping to get her out of here. That's our goal. So we're hoping Saturday or Sunday, we can go home. So 00:15:46 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] Is it still colder than heck there or getting 00:15:48 - [SCOTT_WARNER] warmer? Actually 00:15:49 - [CASEY_CAVANAUGH] been
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