#236: Steve McLeod, founder of Feature Upvote

About this episode

Ian Landsman interviews Ben Pages about the early days of Feature Upvote and his approach to running a business.

I'm the guest on my own podcast! A year ago, Ben Pages joined my company, Feature Upvote , to be our marketing manager. Ben had questions about the early days of Feature Upvote, and how this product came to be. He also wanted to know the origin of my low-stress approach to running a business. We thought, why keep this conversation to ourselves? Why not record it as a podcast interview, and share it with you? And that is exactly what we did for this episode. Mentioned in this episode: Feature Upvote A blog post we mentioned: What I learnt in 2018 while running Feature Upvote . The Bob Dylan quote I mis-remembered in this episode is: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

People in this episode

Host: Ian Landsman

Guest: Ben Pages

Topics covered

• business
• entrepreneurship
• marketing
• product development
• personal philosophy

Keywords

• Feature Upvote
• business philosophy
• marketing
• entrepreneurship
• Bob Dylan quote

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Feature Upvote

Books & works: What I learnt in 2018 while running Feature Upvote

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