Digital Business Entrepreneur biography
Steven Bartlett
The entrepreneur whose work spans social media marketing, long-form interviews and businesses built around media and technology.
Photo: Steven Bartlett official website
Starting with online communities
Steven Bartlett's career began with businesses organised around online connections. His official timeline records Wallpark, a student messaging board, in 2013, followed by co-founding Social Chain in Manchester in 2014. Wallpark offered a place for event notices and used textbooks. Social Chain developed into a social media marketing agency and later combined with a publicly listed company to form Social Chain AG. These beginnings establish a thread connecting his early work: understanding online audiences and creating businesses around their attention. They also distinguish the original agency from the later corporate group.
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Reading the Social Chain chapter carefully
The history of Social Chain requires attention to names and dates. Bartlett's detailed career account states that he stepped down as co-CEO of Social Chain AG in 2020. It also explains that the UK agency Social Chain Ltd, later acquired by Brave Bison in 2023, was a subsidiary of that wider group. According to the account, Bartlett was not a direct shareholder in the UK agency at the time of that sale and was not involved in the transaction. This distinction prevents a later acquisition from being presented as a personal exit by him. His connection is to founding and leading the earlier business, followed by departure from the parent company's executive role.
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Flight Story and new ventures
Bartlett and Oliver Yonchev announced Flight Story in December 2021. The launch release described a platform providing people, processes and technology to help public companies communicate with retail-investor communities. Bartlett's current official site describes Flightstory more broadly as a media, marketing and investment company, with activities including a studio, venture work and an investment fund. His site also records the co-founding of thirdweb with Furqan Rydhan, a software platform for building web3 applications. These ventures represent different business models from the original social media agency. Their connection is an emphasis on technology, communication and the relationship between creators, companies and audiences. The launch announcement positioned Flight Story around retail investors' increasing presence and the need for companies to communicate where those audiences spent their time.
An interviewer as well as a founder
The Diary of a CEO began as an audio experiment in 2017, according to Bartlett's timeline. His professional biography describes its later development into extended interviews with entrepreneurs, thinkers and other public figures, with a YouTube launch in 2020. The format became another substantial part of his public work alongside investing and speaking. Bartlett also joined the BBC's Dragons' Den and published books including Happy Sexy Millionaire and The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life. His official pages make promotional claims about rankings and audience scale; this portrait focuses instead on the documented formats, publications and business roles that define his career.
A few turning points
Career milestones
The evidence behind the account
Sources & further reading
The linked source material was checked on October 13, 2026. Roles and business relationships may change. Source numbers refer to the sections above.
- Steven BartlettAbout Steven Bartlett
- Steven BartlettSteven Bartlett's professional bio and career journey
- Flight Story via PR NewswireSteven Bartlett and Oliver Yonchev launch Flight Story
