25 June 2018

How to find followers and influence people

Steve Bartlett, Founder and CEO of Social Chain

Our guest on this afternoon’s episode of the Gentleman’s Journal podcast is Steve Bartlett, the founder and CEO of Social Chain. Since its birth in 2014, Social Chain has gone on to become the most successful social media agency ever — it owns and controls some of the world’s biggest social accounts, employs more than 250 people worldwide, and has been behind some of the biggest viral trends of the last several years.

In an incredible candid interview, Steve tells us why he dropped out of university on the very first day, how buying followers for your rivals is the quickest way to destroy them, and why everything does NOT happen for a reason.

Our thanks once again to Mark’s Club for playing host

This episode has been recorded at Mark's Club,read by Joseph Bullmore and produced by Martin Lumsden.

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