Youngest Dragon ever to appear on BBC One's Dragons Den, Steven Bartlett is one the most successful young businessmen in the UK. He is the founder and former CEO of Social Chain one of the UK's largest social media marketing agencies worth over £300 million. Steven Bartlett is also an investor, motivational speaker, and podcaster. Having amassed a large social following of over 2 million people and his Diary of a CEO podcast consistently ranks in the top 10 business podcasts in Europe on Apple and recently topped Spotify charts as the number one podcast overall on the platform.
A university drop out, Steven formed his first company at the age of 18. He developed a student communal website named Wallpark while that business did not hit the heights he expected, Steven defied all expectations when he set up two successful businesses, Social Chain and Media Chain by the time he was 22 years old which were immediately and immensely successful. Having now combined his two flagships to create the first integrated social media company listing the likes of Uber, Apple, Amazon, Coca-Cola and Nokia among others as clients.
In 2020, Steven stepped down from his CEO role and in 2021 launched Flight Story, alongside investors Mark Cuban and Gary Vaynerchuk, Flight Story set out a new platform for the next evolution of the internet offering a platform for Web3 apps using blockchain, NFT platforms DAOS. He is at the cutting edge of technological innovation.
He also released his debut book in 2021 - "Happy Sexy Millionaire" which was a Sunday Times Bestseller in the year. In 2022 Steven made his appearance in series 19 of BBC Dragons' Den at just 28 years old Steven was the youngest dragon ever pitting himself against long time investors on the show.
A passionate, driven and award-winning entrepreneur, Steven Bartlett was recently inducted into Manchester’s Hall of Fame by the Mayor of Greater Manchester. He has also been named the most influential individual in marketing and social media marketing by 100 agency leaders in 2017 and 2018 respectively. In 2020 Steven was listed in the Forbes 30 under 30.
Outside of the business world Steven is also able to speak on his experience as a black man in the UK and has in the past describe a small number of unfortunate incidents in which he has personally experienced racial discrimination - despite this, Steven is vocal in his support for equality across all members of society, standing against racial injustice, standing for gender and LGBT rights. For black history month Steven is able to speak on the intersection of business and equality with his unique point of view.
Able to bring his wisdom on social media marketing, business management and entrepreneurship to corporate events of all varieties, he perpetually lives at the cutting edge of business and technological innovation. Steven Bartlett never fails to leave audiences feeling motivated and inspired with his can-do mindset.
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When at corporate events, Steven Bartlett is known to cover the following topics:
- Business Speaker
- Change Management
- Personal Development
- Social Media in Business
- Marketing Methods
- Defying Convention
"I imagine like many others, I became aware of Steven due to his upcoming involvement in Dragon's Den. Reading about his accomplishments in media coverage of this obviously led me to his social media sites out of general intrigue at his success in life. After following for a few days I realised his focus wasn't just on money and life as a successful business leader but there was a much deeper focus on fulfilment and success for life in general. His promotion of a recent podcast episode led me to listen to that and realise that so many of the views I've had particularly about my career over the past few years were being completely validated."
Steven has been the recipient of many awards including:
- 2016 - Digital Entrepreneur of the Year
- 2017 - Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Great British Entrepreneur Awards
- 2020 - Forbes 30 under 30
- 2021 - Debut book becomes Sunday Times Bestseller
- 2022 - Youngest ever Dragon BBC Dragon's Den
