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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S3 E19: Joe Howard, WP Buffs

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Tech News, News, Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.6216 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Joe Howard is originally from Washington DC. He did his undergrad outside of Philly, then quickly moved back to the DC area. He's married, with a young family and most of his outside of work time is dedicated to family, and traveling to interesting places (when the pandemic allows). He likes to try and keep himself disciplined with his day to day calendar - through exercise, reading, team growth, and family focus. And he uses a pomodoro journal - on and off - to help him keep organized in blocking his time. Host of the WPMRR podcast, on which he focuses on increasing monthly recurring revenue, and for sure, mentions the latest in Wordpress world. I'd recommend checking it out. Joe started out as a Wordpress freelancer, but found it was hard to scale building websites. However, what he knew was the fact that there are a lot of Wordpress sites out there... and they need grade A support. This is the creation story of WP Buffs. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

I'm one of those people that thinks, you know, you should probably be making a lot of small mistakes.

0:05.7

If you're not making mistakes somewhat frequently, you're probably not doing enough.

0:09.9

You're probably not pushing yourself outside your comfort zone enough.

0:12.0

Or you're probably not moving fast enough.

0:13.8

One of those things or multiple of those things.

0:16.7

Usually in my experience and from what I've heard from other successful entrepreneurs,

0:26.4

like you've got to really get some traction going on. You've got to know. Not only, yes,

0:30.2

this is for sure a pain point for people, but is it a pain point people are going to like swipe their credit card for? I've got to think, are people going to pull out their wallets and put

0:33.1

their credit card information into your site and give you money for what you're offering?

0:38.7

My name is Joe Howard. I'm the founder and CEO of WP Buffs.

0:47.7

This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry

0:57.2

and build and lead a team that has your back.

1:02.3

I'm your host, Noah Labhart,

1:04.3

and today how Joe Howard decided to build a product-tive service

1:08.7

for supporting your WordPress sites.

1:13.6

All this and more on Code Story.

1:19.5

Joe Howard is originally from Washington, D.C.

1:22.8

He did his undergrad outside of Philly, then quickly move back to the D.C. area.

1:27.2

He's married with a young family, and most of his outside of workilly, then quickly move back to the D.C. area. He's married with a young

1:28.2

family, and most of his outside of work time is dedicated to family and traveling to interesting

1:33.3

places when the pandemic allows. He likes to try and keep himself disciplined with his day-to-day

1:38.7

calendar through exercise, reading, team growth, and family focus, and he uses a Pomodoro

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