Podin Along Podcast
The Podin Along podcast is an unrehearsed chat hosted by cloud entrepreneur Steve Rastall with friends and guests that have similar interests in SAAS, business, building tech companies, AWS & Azure. (Also other interests, classic cars, motorsport, cycling, house self build and anything else that is the new shiny thing)
About
- Age 0 Born in Wrexham
- Age 9 Liked football, cars, karting and school was hard as unknowingly dyslexic
- Age 12 Father sent to Prison
- Age 13 Sent away to another school due to above, parents split starts
- Age 16 Start selling cars as I have no money and study PT for A levels
- Age 19 Go to Oxford to study Law and failed
- Age 20 Work in a betting shop on the till, live for the weekend
- Age 22 Back to Uni in Newcastle to do business and work driving delivery vans
- Age 23 Get on Graduate management trainee prog @ Marks and Spencer
- Age 26 Get job selling Caterpillar construction equipment(Still trading cars PT)
- Age 30 Get a job building up a software start up
- Age 31 Start igroup, £1500 on an egg credit card and a lap top
- Age 33 Do not take a wage for over 18 months(Get married)
- Age 34 Sell software IPR into oil/gas sector and Logistics Fast 600k
- Age 35 Invest and still live frugally and focus full time on SharePoint
- Age 39 Millionaire and now doing 1 million+ profit p.a.
- Age 40 Invest in properties, offices, land, Vanguard and dream house
- Age 42 Invest in Crypto, Gold, classic cars, and property development
- Age 44 Decide to exit via extraction and contract sell offs not sale, pension nearly maxed
- Age 45 Mum dies, son has terrible rally accident, friend dies suddenly, colleague has heart attack, take time out, had the choice of retiring
- Age 47 Go full time on IG Cloud Ops, build 2nd home in Abersoch
- Age 49 Net worth Multiplied significantly from 10 years prior, But it does not stop what happened at 45...
- Age 50 Enjoying work with a small tight team building a scalable business IG Cloud Ops and start working on building an exceptional legacy Para house
My Take
I'm not special. I've just learned to keep going when things get tough, stay focused, and think long-term. Success isn't about quick wins—it's about showing up consistently and making smart decisions over time. Reinvesting profits into property and other assets has been as important as building the business itself. I've never taken outside investment and I've always focused on making a profit each month rather than burning through cash.
Even a turkey can fly in a strong wind—but the real test is whether you can stay airborne when the wind dies down. Money gives you freedom and you can make your own happiness!
Interests, Family etc – Pictures are a thousand words
