Steven Bartlett Audiobooks

Entrepreneurship at conversational speed, distilled into The Diary of a CEO

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Who is Steven Bartlett?

Steven Bartlett, born in 1992, is a British entrepreneur, investor and podcaster who has become one of the most visible business figures of his generation. He founded Social Chain in 2014, and in 2017 launched The Diary of a CEO, the interview podcast that grew into a global phenomenon – by 2025, Spotify Wrapped ranked it the second most popular podcast in the world.

Since 2021 he has appeared as an investor on the BBC’s Dragons’ Den, and his business interests have multiplied along the way: Flight Story, with its studio and investment fund, the technology venture Thirdweb, and Steven.com among them. The through-line is a knack for turning conversation about business into a business in its own right.

Steven Bartlett in audiobooks

Bartlett’s book shares its name with his podcast, and that tells you what to expect: The Diary of a CEO distils the thinking of an entrepreneur who founded his first major company in his early twenties and then built an enormous audience by interrogating how success actually works. In audio it sits naturally – this is material from someone whose reputation was made at a microphone, and the direct, conversational register suits the format.

For listeners working through the business and personal development shelves, it is a sensible modern entry: ambitious, brisk and rooted in first-hand experience rather than pure theory.