#186 Steve Bartlett: Business, Brands & Burn-Out

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🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Steve Bartlett is the 26-year-old CEO of Social Chain Group - a global, social-first marketing agency and production house. He first built his business from his bedroom in Manchester after dropping out of university and he now runs the group’s two flagship companies - Social Chain and Media Chain which continue to grow, now with an office space of almost 300 people. He is also as a speaker, investor and hosts the podcast 'Diary Of A Ceo'.

We chat about the influencer world, how marketing can shrink your soul, how to grow a business from scratch, what to do if your parents don't get what you do/ if your family don't support you, the problem with the 'you can do whatever you want" mentality, and why millennials are burning out.

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0:00.0	This episode of Control-Or Delete is sponsored by King Fisher, the company behind
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0:53.7	Thank you so much to King Fisher for sponsoring this podcast.
0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete.
1:07.0	Today's guest is the brilliant Stephen Bartlett.
1:10.0	He's a 26-year-old CEO of the Social Chain Group, which you might have heard of. the He first built the business from his bedroom in Manchester and now it's grown to
1:24.6	over 300 people across Manchester London Berlin Munich and New York. They create
1:30.7	campaigns for some of the world's biggest brands, including the likes of Apple,
1:35.4	Amazon, Coca-Cola, Super Dry and Nokia and lots of others and they reach over 10 billion people a month,
1:43.4	I think I'm reading that right,
1:45.0	through their digital publishing house media chain.
1:48.4	So it's grown enormously,
1:51.3	it's quite amazing what he's achieved at such a young age and I was just really interested in talking to him about marketing and the future of the influencer industry and how to grow a business from scratch basically when you didn't go to school and
2:07.0	dropped out of university, which is part of his story.
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