Steven Bartlett · CEO & Podcaster · Diary of a CEO · The WLS 100 · 2026 Edition
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Steven Bartlett

CEO & Podcaster

Podcast #2 mondial. 3M LI. 3M IG.

Education
Manchester Metropolitan (dropped)
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British entrepreneur Steven Bartlett has become one of the most listened-to voices in business. He founded the social media marketing agency Social Chain at twenty-two and took it public, then launched The Diary of a CEO in 2017, a podcast now among the most followed in the world for its long-form conversations on leadership, health and psychology. The youngest investor ever to join the BBC's Dragons' Den, he is also a bestselling author and the founder of Flight Story, a media and investment group backing early-stage companies.

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He turned the conversation about leadership into a format that reaches millions of listeners, while investing in a new generation of European founders.

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