Nashville team retreat: scary birds, country music, and a photo shoot

This podcast is hosted by transistor dot f m. Hey, everyone. Welcome to Build Your SaaS. This is the behind the scenes story of building a web app in 2023. I'm John Buda, a software engineer. I'm Helen. I'm head of customer success. I'm Jason, and I'm a software engineer. I'm Josh, and I'm a marketing engineer. And I'm Justin Jackson. I do product and marketing. Follow along as this Motley crew builds transistor.fm. We got the whole team on the show today. First time we've ever had this many people on any episode of Build Your SaaS, I think. But we just, recently got back from our second ever team retreat, and we went to Nashville, Tennessee. And, I thought last year, we did a kind of update episode, and I thought we'd get everybody on the mics and do another kind of review of the team retreat. It's also just a chance for us to talk about kind of what we're thinking about and working on and working towards here at Transistor. So why don't we start off by just sharing some highlights? What were some of your highlights from the retreat this year at Nashville? Helen, did you have any off the top of your head? Yeah. I mean, we did lots of things over the week. But I think for me, the highlight was kind of spending time together. It was our priority to get together and spend time together. So when we did things like playing cards and playing games, I think I learned more about all of you, in those kind of couple of hours than I have to know the entire past year, really. So it was very telling, some of you. Some of you, the way you play games, it's, it's, very interesting. We we played a a card game called cheat, which I had played before, but I I'd forgotten it. We had, like, we rented, again, a a big common meeting room, like a penthouse where we could all go in, and it had a a circular card table. And, yeah, there's a game called cheat where you have to basically lie to each other. And, that was fun. That was fun to see everyone's different lying technique. Helen Helen was, like, doing something shady on her side. She she had, like, a a system. She was an experienced player. It didn't work, though. I I only won one game, so I think Jason was the cheap winner there. That's right. Yeah. Jason Jason ended up winning a lot of those those, those cheap games. Yeah. I'm good at cheating. My favorite is, like, everybody has a look when somebody calls them on cheating, and they have cheated. Everyone has a look. Just getting to see everyone's little look, like John's little smirk and, you know, every every everyone basically has a smirk when when they're caught. That was one of my highlights too. The the, we played card games, …