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Hi, my name is Mehmet Gunilu, the host of the CTO show with Mehmet.

When I started my podcast, the CTO show with Mehmet, it wasn't part of some big master plan.

There was no team, no PR agency, no strategy.

It was just me and a mic I bought online. And at the

beginning, I kept it simple. I recorded it solo. No guests, no interviews. I just wanted

to reflect out loud on what I've seen in my 20 plus years in B2B tech across startups, scale apps, and go to

marketplace.

I had frameworks, war stories, observations, and podcasting gave me a quiet place to think.

And I will be honest, at first, that was enough.

There's something very cathartic about speaking into the void.

No performance, no expectations, just to clarify.

But after a while, it became kind of repetitive.

I wasn't learning anymore.

I was just recycling what I already knew. So one day, I invited

someone on the show, a founder I respected. And that one conversation changed the entire

direction of the podcast. Not because the episode went viral, actually it didn't, But because I felt it. That real curiosity again,

the way one answer sparked five more questions, the feeling of learning in real time.

That's when I made a decision. This wasn't going to be a solo show anymore. I didn't just want to share what I knew.

I wanted to absorb what I didn't. And that's how a casual side project became something much

bigger. Today, more than 400 episodes later, I can say something I didn't expect it when I started

all this.

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