Time To Say Good Bye

It's over. This time, we will not ask you to follow and subscribe. This time, we will not tell you that we talk about a follow-up topic in the next episode. Wait, we should, damn it, I should have done that earlier. We should put like some sad music in the background before we say this. Wait, wait, wait, let me just play. It's over. This time, we will not ask you to subscribe and follow the Product Bakery podcast. This time, we will not tell you that we are going to launch a new episode because this one is the last one. Okay, so we're getting emotional. It is actually emotional. I didn't think it's going to be that hard. But yeah, I feel like, I mean, you always know the stats better than me. But how many years? How many episodes? Almost, almost four years. And this is the 137th episode. So four years. Did you know, did you know that the average podcast stops at five episodes? Yeah, but the good thing was like, when we started, we already had more than five episodes because we pre-recorded. That's true. And this is, by the way, a hack for everyone who wants to start a podcast, never start with one episode. No, yeah, obviously not. Because you also need to have something that you can just like put out and it's always better to produce, produce, produce, and then just like release them on a weekly basis. Plus, if people like what they listen to, they can follow up on another episode. So you get traffic and traction. Anyway, today is not about any advice. It's not about anything. I think it's really more to say thank you. Thank you for four years. Thank you for maybe just the last two episodes. Whenever you kind of started listening to us, I think, I mean, we always did this just as a side project for fun. So yeah, I mean, it was obviously nice to get together with you, Christian, but if it wouldn't have been for the audience, we would never have continued for four years. So I think it was every message that we got. I mean, we had a couple of breaks over the years where we were not sure if we would come back and it was always because of you guys and girls and women and you people. Sorry. Because of you people listening to our episodes and constantly like following up and checking in on us if we didn't launch anything. But everything has an end. Totally. I couldn't agree more. So a big thank you to everyone who supported us, the messages we got, also the conversations we had. We managed to form also a lot of contacts with all the interviews, especially at the beginning that we had with great people. And in my opinion, still mainly timeless episodes. So feel free to tune in and listen to a lot of best-selling authors or people from the industry who shared their opinions, which are, in my opinion, still applicable in many ways. So yeah, I'm very grateful for everybody who participated as a guest, as a listener or whatever, even if you just, I don't know, heard of us and said, oh, that's a nice logo. I also want to say thank you to everybody. Absolutely. And I mean, in the first place, at least speaking about myself, I started with this podcast mostly because I wanted to learn from different new things and I wanted to have an easy access to talk to really smart people in the industry. And I think we managed to do that. I'm happy with all the different conversations that we had and everything that I could take away for myself. So if you're listening in for the first time, definitely make sure to check some of the older episodes. Some of them recorded during COVID, before economical crisis. Like I think we saw it all from hiring to firing, to promoting, to adjusting and hyper growing. Well, Alex, I have one last question for you. The very last one. What are your top three most liked episodes? The best recordings we've had. Which one? Which are the three? I can't choose. You can't? I can't choose. Come on. If you have to, what would it be? This one here is definitely a special one because it's like the end of everything. I think the first one itself was also extremely helpful. I agree. I can't pick any of the guests because I think they have been all extremely valuable and amazing episodes. So I mean, maybe if I would have to go with the statistics, I would go with the product strategy episodes, which obviously was one of the most listened and re-listened and shared episodes. I see. Yeah, I see. What about you? Well, I'm biased now due to your answer. The first and the last. Okay. A fair point. Very good ones. I do have, I mean, I love every guest. I mean, what people don't know and haven't seen maybe is that we are very picky when it comes to our podcast guests. We spend a lot of time interviewing them before we schedule a recording. So there's a long process and it took us a lot of time and efforts to make sure that we not only have the right people in place, also have a good agenda or at least a good preparation to know, yeah, we can cover topics in depth. So this just as a background. So therefore every interview was, in my opinion, very well prepared and the guests came very prepared and were very passionate and motivated to share their knowledge with the community. And with that already, I mean, yeah, we could say, okay, this covers already that every episode was great. But one particular episode that I liked a lot was the one with Alex Wheeler talking about UX. I mean, you know, I'm a gamer, he develops computer games. That was to me very well going. I would have bet that you mentioned that episode. I remember how much he loved talking to this guy. So yeah, it was amazing. It was amazing. I think it was, which number was it, 36 or something like that. I don't have it in my mind, but definitely one of the 30s. The good thing is people have a lot of time now to find it and to dig through all our episodes. And with that, let's call it a day the last time. Yes. You will still find us on all our channels. Reach out on LinkedIn if you just want to chat, but it's probably the last time you will hear our voices in this format for a long time. We will post our LinkedIn connections into the podcast description. No other links. So if you want to stay in touch, feel free to press the hi slash subscribe slash follow slash connect button. I don't know what's going on on LinkedIn these days, but we would love to stay in touch with you. Nice. I'm glad it's not a video podcast so nobody sees my tears. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Set music again. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.